Bill Maher addressed Donald Trump’s recent Manhattan indictment on Friday evening, describing the incident as “cathartic” while accusing Democrats of pursuing a sex scandal-centered case, a strategy he said had failed once before.
“The whole ‘chasing the president’ thing, I’ve seen this movie before,” Maher said on HBO’s late-night show. Real time. “It was called ‘Kill Bill,’ and this is the first time America hasn’t liked it.”
Maher said all this with a projected picture of Bill Clinton, referring to the former president’s relationship with then-trainee Monica Lewinsky.
“Republicans exposed him as a dirty, filthy, disgusting sexist,” he added. “And when they were done with it, it had a 73% approval rate.”
Maher brought up the lawsuit filed by Alvin Bragg against Trump, who was prosecuted for 34 felony charges centered around the hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, in fact, for alleged falsification of business documents. She asked Democrats to focus on Trump’s other alleged crimes, she said.
“Trump commits real crimes, he commits them on TV,” Maher said. “He obstructed justice, pressured state election officials to rectify an election – on tape.”
Maher then played the audio recording of Trump telling a Georgia election official that he only needed 11,000 votes in the 2020 presidential election.
“He publicly asks other countries to interfere in our elections,” Maher added. “He is on the side of our enemies. It refuses to accept the elections and thus incites the uprising.”
“But now, when the real indictments for truly serious crimes come to light, we’ll have kicked Stormy Daniels,” Maher concluded, as the audience responded with laughter and applause. “We’re going to get so used to seeing Trump taken to court that there won’t be a big outcry. Just like how we got used to watching him get sacked.”
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