Invoice Maher couldn’t assist however rank the “insane” issues former President Donald Trump has mentioned in solely the previous week, after right-wing “Real Time” visitor Buck Sexton argued on Friday’s present that Vice President Kamala Harris flip-flops an excessive amount of on coverage to be taken critically.
When Sexton claimed Harris has modified her thoughts on “a dozen different things” since 2020, Maher agreed that she’s most likely failed “the old standards that we’ve judged every other politician by” prior to now — however argued that Trump’s actions are way more maddening.
“Trump’s superpower is that he is so fucking insane,” Maher advised Sexton, “and that he’s been such an inveterate liar about anything he just pulls out of his ass at any time, that that’s just baked into the cake and people accept that.
“Let me just [remind you], this is just Trump this week,” he went on. “First there was the hurricane stuff. Just making shit up about the hurricane, that she’s taking … ‘her FEMA money.’ Kamala spent all her, I guess, ‘her billions,’ as if she stole it from a bank and spent it ‘on housing illegal immigrants.’”
Trump did certainly lie about this at a Michigan marketing campaign rally final week. (FEMA has a devoted catastrophe aid price range that may solely be used for catastrophe restoration, not different emergencies, the company clarified earlier this month. The funds it makes use of to assist shelter migrants come from a separate pot of cash.)
Maher went on to remind his pro-Trump visitor in regards to the ominous early days of the 2020 pandemic, “when there [were] only a few Covid tests here in this country,” and pointed to a revelation from Bob Woodward’s new ebook that alleges Trump “sent [one of those tests] to his buddy [Vladimir] Putin” and has been in touch with the Russian president.
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And this week, Trump referred to as for an investigation into Harris’ look on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” claiming that it had been misleadingly edited and will show to be a “major campaign finance violation.”
“She went on ’60 Minutes,’” Maher mentioned Friday. “[Trump] said after that what she did was totally illegal. Going on ’60 Minutes’ — that CBS should lose their license for it and she should be forced to concede the election? My point is, this is his superpower.”
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He concluded: “You don’t even notice the insanity because it is ubiquitous.”
Present polling for the November election exhibits the race neck-and-neck, with Harris main Trump by solely a few factors. The Democratic nominee not too long ago wrapped a media blitz on exhibits like “Late Night with Stephen Colbert,” “The View” and the favored “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
Early voting within the presidential election, by mail and in-person, has already begun in a number of states.
