Bill Maher has several thoughts about the shocking assassination attempt made against Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The HBO Real Time host posted a video of himself on stage at his comedy show reacting to the breaking news just hours later.
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“I unequivocally denounce [the shooting], I don’t care what you think about that,” began Maher during the opening moments of his show. “Not funny. I’m sure that there will be jokes that people will make because they hate him so much that they wished it went he other way. Not for me.”
“When I saw that photo today of him with the blood streaming down his face — I don’t want to say the election’s over but … Anything can happen in an election. but Jesus Christ: MAGA nation finally has its full martyr. They loved it when he went to jail. The mug shot. I gotta say, he’s insane and a criminal. But that mug shot? Fucking nailed it. And he [reacted to the shooting] like he rehearsed it! [Got it on] take one! There will be idiot conspiracy theorists who will say, ‘Oh they planned it.’ He gets grazed and the other guy gets [killed] — that’s so Trump. It’s going to work for him. I can see the memes now — ‘the man the libtards couldn’t kill.’ Biden can’t get through a debate and a bullet can’t stop Donald Trump. It almost doesn’t matter who the Democrats put up now.”
“Whoever did this, the shooter has done so much damage to the Left,” Maher continued. “[The Left] has lost a lot moral high ground in the ‘you’re the violent people’ and the ‘liberals don’t shoot people, liberals don’t solve it that way.’”
It should be noted the politics and motive of the shooter are currently unclear. The would-be assassin has been identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. According to CNN, he was registered to vote as a Republican while records show he gave $15 to a Democratic-aligned political action committee in 2021.
Continued Maher: “When I say ‘moral high ground’ … the 2025 Project, the sort of plank of the Republican Party, which starts their convention tomorrow in Milwaukee, I’ll be there — to go to the strip clubs. The guy who wrote that said ‘this is our new plank,’ he said ‘this is our new revolution for America,’ which I’ve heard a thousand times … everybody says there’s a new revolution. But they don’t always say what this guy said, which is, he added, ‘It’ll be bloodless, as long as the liberals let it happen.’ Okay, that’s not cool either. This shit has got to stop, because none of this violence happens in a vacuum.”
“But I’m glad [Trump’s] okay. I gotta say this: He’s the luckiest motherfucker that has ever walked the face of the Earth. In 2016, he lost the popular vote by a lot, he pulled an inside straight [in the Electoral College] to win — everything happened in his way. The Democratic turmoil that’s going on right now with Joe Biden being his opponent. Always lucky, lucky, lucky.”
While Maher didn’t name the venue of the show, his tour schedule says he was at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN last night.
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