On Friday’s Real Time, host Bill Maher pressed Dr. Phil over his participation in the Trump administration’s ICE raids, sparking a tense exchange between them.
“Why are you going on these ICE raids?” Maher asked Dr. Phil. “I don’t understand that. You’re a guy who we know for so many years who has been working to put families together. To bring families who are apart and heal them. And now you’re going on raids with people who are literally separating families.”
“Well, now that’s bullsh—t,” Dr. Phil countered. “Look, if you arrest somebody that’s a citizen, that has committed a crime or is DUI’d with a child in the backseat, do you think they don’t separate that family right then, right there? Of course they do!”
Dr. Phil also defended ICE agents wearing masks, saying lawmakers had “doxxed” them, and cited “files” he’d reviewed to justify the operations he joined.
“They’ve got a rap sheet, 12, 14 different cases long of child predators that they’re taking off the street,” Dr. Phil said. “These are the worst first that they’re taking off the streets. Who would want them back in their communities?”
NEW: Bill Maher confronts Dr. Phil over joining ICE raids — and Dr. Phil fires back, calling bullsh*t right to his face.
Dr. Phil doesn’t just curse for anything.
MAHER: “Why are you going on these ICE raids? I don’t understand that. You’re a guy who we know for so many years… pic.twitter.com/QAxAZ9waAt
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