NEW Fox News articles can now be heard on audio! Bill Maher, host of “Real Time,” claimed that Republicans would “secretly adore it” if former President Trump were imprisoned for his role in the Capitol riot on January 6 when he returned from his summer vacation on Friday.
Maher praised the House Select Committee hearings on January 6 as “quite spectacular” and shot down GOP critics who claim they are all political because “all the individuals who are witnesses and prosecuting it are Republicans!” Maher then introduced the panel.
But Maher asserted that the GOP would eventually change its mind about the “important decision” of whether Attorney General Merrick Garland should charge the former president.
“I understand the justification for not doing so because they will be sobbing MAGA tears if their boy is imprisoned. I want to ask you this. What if they did this and won the case? After all, you guys have to win the case if you bring this. He is detained. My hypothesis is that the Republicans would adore it “added Maher. “I think they would f—-ing love it because he’s out of the way—not our fault, like our country secretly enjoyed it when Israel would bomb Iraq- or Iran-,” the speaker said.
TRUMP COULD WIN 2024 SO EASILY’ IF HE’D JUST LET GO OF 2020, SAYS BILL MAHER
Republicans who secretly say they “can’t bear the guy” and wish he would go said there is “something to it,” according to Politico’s White House editor Sam Stein, adding that “they wouldn’t be utterly upset.”
“They may act like they’re being persecuted, which I believe they do more than anyone else can. It would be like when he isn’t on Twitter in the meanwhile!” Maher shouted.
DESANTIS, ACCORDING TO BILL MAHER, WOULD BE WAY BETTER THAN TRUMP HES NOT CERTAINLY CRAZY,
The Jan. 6 Committee is “setting out the case” and “showing the blueprint,” the HBO star said, adding that the DOJ will “had to” charge Trump because Congress cannot do otherwise.
He then cited Garland’s recent remarks to NBC News in which he stated that the DOJ would prosecute “everyone who is criminally liable.”
Maher remarked, “I think it would be fairly straightforward to prove in court: obstructing a joint session of Congress. “Of course, if you have a Trump supporter on the jury, that will be an issue, but you have to try,” the speaker said.
John McWhorter, an associate professor at Columbia University, expressed his pessimism that Trump would “still have the same amount of admirers” even if he were to go to jail.
A PART OF THE PROBLEM, SAYS BILL MAHER, IS THAT HOLLYWOOD HAS NOT GOTTEN AWAKE ON ROMANTICIZING GUN VIOLENCE
A more upbeat Maher disagreed, claiming that the hearings on January 6 had enough of an effect on the election. Citing “6 percent” of GOP voters and “more than that of independents,” he said that this “may be enough” to change the outcome.
When you put those two factors together, an election is won, according to Maher.
Last month, Maher opined that had Trump not become fixated on the outcome of the 2020 election, he would have been in a far better political position in a rematch with President Biden.
