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Bill Maher Defends Trump After Media Attacks Claiming He Called For Her To Be Killed by a Firing Squad: ‘No He Didn’t’
Charlie Kirk Staff
11/03/2024
“Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized the media for misreporting former President Trump’s remarks about his vocal opponent, Liz Cheney.
“I woke up today to the headline that Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney,” Maher said during Friday’s “Overtime” online segment. “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 [don’t].”
“He’s criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean, she is Dick Cheney’s daughter,” Maher continued before reading Trump’s actual statement. “Now, of course, he expresses himself horribly. He has to add ‘she’s a stupid person’ because he’s a moron… Just to be clear, this is exactly what hippies always said. 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 later added, “Just don’t lie to me. 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, by the way, if it came out of the mouth, some of it, not the stupid part, again, sounds like what hippies used to say about not sending people to [war].”
Michael Moynihan, co-host of The Fifth Column podcast, said the media provided “ammunition” to Trump’s team with how it covered the story, referencing “chyrons on television” suggesting that Trump wanted Cheney “executed.”
“At the beginning of that kind of rambling and incoherent thing, he said ‘give her a weapon,’ which is not typically something you do to have someone executed,” Moynihan noted.
Maher responded, “And again, the spirit of it is something that if someone with the blue said it, people would nod along on the left.”
Moynihan added, “There’s plenty of things he says, you don’t have to invent them.”
“Yes,” Maher agreed.
Even Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, criticized the media’s portrayal, calling it “ridiculous, absurd and counterproductive.”
During an event in Glendale, Arizona, Trump took aim at Cheney, who has been campaigning alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, labeling her a “radical war hawk.”
“I don’t blame [former Vice President Dick Cheney] for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual. Very dumb, she’s a radical war hawk. 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 said. “You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in the nice buildings saying ‘Oh gee well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”
