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BILL MAHER SAYS TRUMP TRIALS MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE ‘REVOLUTIONARY LEADER’ TO
VOTERS, WANTS BIDEN TO ‘STEP ASIDE’
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“Real Time” host Bill Maher offered caution ahead of the four criminal trials of
former President Trump, predicting they will make him look like a “revolutionary
leader” as the 2024 campaign unfolds.
In an interview published Monday by Reason Magazine, Maher shared his pessimism
about the upcoming election, which is increasingly looking like a rematch
between Trump and President Biden.
“I think I’m where a lot of people are: I wish Biden would step aside,” Maher
said. “Well, first, I wish Trump doesn’t win, but he totally could, and it’s
looking more like he will. But a lot can change in a year. We haven’t had any of
his trials—although if the January 6 commission and the media and everything
else haven’t changed people’s minds about liking him, I think these trials are
only going to make him look like a revolutionary leader.”
He continued, “All you have to say is, ‘The people who put me on trial were
corrupt!’ And then your ignominious behavior becomes a badge of honor. So
whether the trials are going to help or hurt him, it’s hard to say. I think
it’ll be about a draw, and then it’ll really be a referendum on which side is
crazier.”
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“Real Time” host Bill Maher offered caution ahead of the trials of former
President Trump, predicting they would make him look like a “revolutionary
leader.” HBO
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“Well, first, I wish Trump doesn’t win, but he totally could, and it’s looking
more like he will. But a lot can change in a year. We haven’t had any of his
trials—although if the January 6 commission and the media and everything else
haven’t changed people’s minds about liking him, I think these trials are only
going to make him look like a revolutionary leader,” Maher said. REUTERS
“And both sides have a case, although I always fall on the side of ‘Trump of
course is truly crazy.’ He’s stupid and crazy. They’re two completely different
things, but he has both of them. I’m even more worried about the crazy side, but
crazy photographs, insanity photographs, it’s compelling. And when he shows up,
come on, people are going to cover it, watch it. It’s not going to be boring,”
Maher said.
“And in this unfactual society, I don’t think any of the issues really are what
most people vote on anyway. It doesn’t really matter what any of them say or do,
because they each have their own media sources, who are in the business of
feeding back to their audience what they want to hear,” he added.
Back in March, Maher sounded the alarm that the first indictment brought by New
York D.A. Alvin Bragg would become “rocket fuel” for Trump’s 2024 campaign.
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Following the first indictment, Trump’s GOP polling shot up and remained high as
three other rounds of indictments were brought against him. AP
“I just would like to go on record in saying I think this is a colossal mistake
if they bring these charges. Not this one, you know,” Maher said at the time. “I
mean, yes, he’s done a lot of bad things, and I’m sure he did this — everything
they accused him of [doing], he did. But first of all, it’s not gonna work. It’s
gonna be rocket fuel for his 2024 campaign. And it’s just gonna look to MAGA
nation like, ‘Oh, you know, you tried with Mueller, you tried with Ukraine, you
tried with January 6. Now we go to the porn star? Really? You’re down to
that?!'”
Following the first indictment, Trump’s GOP polling shot up and remained high as
three other rounds of indictments were brought against him, two from Special
Counsel Jack Smith and one from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in
Georgia, totaling a whopping 91 charges.
Maher also revealed in the interview that a “pretty famous” person scolded him
for allowing Republicans on his HBO show.
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Back in March, Maher sounded the alarm that the first indictment brought by New
York D.A. Alvin Bragg would become “rocket fuel” for Trump’s 2024 campaign. HBO
“I had [Ron] DeSantis and Ted Cruz on this year, and Bill Barr. And yes, to
answer your question, I can think of two people—and I won’t say who they are;
one of them is pretty famous—just yelling at me in an email about that,” Maher
said. “And my answer to that is: F— off. You know what? You live in your ivory
tower. I’m going to talk to everybody in the half of the country that you find
is so deplorable. They’re not going to self-deport, even if they are deplorable.
And some of them are! And some on the left are deplorable too, and incredibly
obnoxious. That’s the country!”
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He continued, “When historians look back in a hundred years, if we’re still
here, I don’t think they’re going to divide the country like we do into these
two camps. They’re going to say: As a people, they were obnoxious. It happens in
different forms on both sides. As a people, they didn’t believe in science. On
the right, they think global warming is a hoax or whatever nonsense they believe
about that. And on the left, they think men can have babies. That’s what they’ll
say. They’ll say, ‘As a people, they just lost their s–t.’”
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"Real Time" host Bill Maher offered caution ahead of the trials of former
President Trump, predicting they would make him look like a "revolutionary
leader." HBO
"Well, first, I wish Trump doesn't win, but he totally could, and it's looking
more like he will. But a lot can change in a year. We haven't had any of his
trials—although if the January 6 commission and the media and everything else
haven't changed people's minds about liking him, I think these trials are only
going to make him look like a revolutionary leader," Maher said. REUTERS
Following the first indictment, Trump's GOP polling shot up and remained high as
three other rounds of indictments were brought against him. AP
Back in March, Maher sounded the alarm that the first indictment brought by New
York D.A. Alvin Bragg would become "rocket fuel" for Trump's 2024 campaign. HBO
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