Former Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly said President Trump appropriately called out “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and sees it as “payback” for attacks from Democrats and the media that he endured during the election.

In an online column published Wednesday, O’Reilly said Trump “knows that Nazi sympathizers are bad people,” but that he took the opportunity to hit his detractors because it would score points with his supporters.