However on Friday, the liberal pundit defended the GOP presidential nominee for imagining how former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) would react to having weapons educated at her, and argued on his present, HBO’s “Real Time,” that Trump’s comment expressed the identical antiwar notion that liberals used to share.
At a marketing campaign occasion with former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona, on Thursday, the previous president known as Cheney a “war hawk.” Each Cheney and her father, former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, have endorsed his opponent, Kamala Harris.
“Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there, with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump mentioned.
He went on: “You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying, ‘Aw, gee, well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’”
Maher argued the previous president’s fantasy about Cheney getting shot at was only a poorly worded argument for non-interventionist overseas coverage.
“I woke up today to the headline that Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney,” he mentioned Friday. “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.”
“Just to be clear, this is exactly what hippies always said,” the host added. “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.”
Maher acquired some pushback from one visitor on his present, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who acerbically countered that Trump should know “what it’s really like from Vietnam” — in reference to the actual fact that Trump’s “bone spur” analysis helped him keep away from being drafted into the navy.
Maher conceded that Trump “expresses himself horribly,” and Raskin argued that there has “been a lot of violence” following Trump’s political rise — which shouldn’t be ignored.
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The MAGA chief has reportedly made greater than 100 threats to his perceived enemies, and has begun repeating that there’s “an enemy within” the U.S. authorities that he hopes to eradicate. He has even contemplated utilizing the navy to quell potential civil unrest from the “radical left.”
Trump’s Cheney remark sparked outrage amongst high-ranking Democrats, together with Harris, who argued such remarks are “disqualifying,” in addition to Cheney herself, who mentioned that is “how dictators destroy free nations.”
Maher, who has lengthy warned concerning the risks of a second Trump time period and predicted that he wouldn’t promptly concede the 2020 presidential election, in the end discovered himself in a predicament Friday — by defending the identical billionaire who as soon as sued him.
“Just don’t lie to me,” Maher mentioned Friday concerning the media. “I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that … sounds like what hippies used to say — about not sending people to die.”
