On HBO’s “Real Time” Friday, Bill Maher argued that media claims about Trump calling for Liz Cheney’s execution were false, stating Trump’s words echoed sentiments often voiced by “hippies.”
Maher suggested that if someone on the left had said it, it would likely have been accepted. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) agreed, noting that Trump’s words were misrepresented.
Maher said, “I woke up today to the headline that Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney. And this is what I really don’t like about the media, no, he didn’t. You don’t have to move me to not like Donald Trump more than I already [do].”
“Now, of course, he expresses himself horribly, he has to add she’s a stupid person, because he’s a moron,” Maher added.
After Raskin cut in to sarcastically quip, “Well, Trump knows what it’s really like from Vietnam.” Maher responded:
“Okay. But, just to be clear, this is exactly what hippies always said. This is exactly what peaceniks always said. This is ‘Fortunate Son’, the song. It’s like, you know what, it’s very easy to sit in your building and send young men to die — apropos of Ukraine, because, I don’t know, that war does not look like it’s going in the right direction. But just so — just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me she was in — he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that, by the way, if it came out of the mouth — some of it, not the stupid part — again, sounds like what hippies used to say about not sending people to–.”
See their exchange below:
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