Bill Maher just got steamrolled on his own show.
For years, he’s pushed the narrative that Trump was responsible for January 6—but today, he met his match.
David Mamet, the legendary playwright, torched Maher’s lies about Trump and the 2020 election...
The tension continued to build, culminating in a fiery clash over January 6, one of Maher’s favorite subjects. But not today. Maher tried to frame Trump as the catalyst for the riot, arguing that the former president’s refusal to concede was to blame.
Mamet didn’t buy the logic—and pushed back. “If a prizefighter loses, it doesn’t inspire people to riot,” Maher said.
Mamet asked flatly, “How did he inspire people to riot?” Maher shot back, “By not conceding the election!”
That’s when Mamet leaned in and called Maher out to his face. “Oh come on! Oh come on. Come on. So wait a second, he didn’t say the words ‘I concede’ so that meant people rioted?”
Maher doubled down, saying, “Yes! What do you think January 6th was about? It was about people who did not hear their leader say, as every other leader in this country has said after an election, okay I lost. We welcome the new guy.”
He went on to contrast Trump with George W. Bush: “When Obama took over, George Bush stood next to him and he said, we want you to succeed because when you succeed—Trump didn’t do any of that.”
Mamet replied, “Okay. So so what?” “So what?!” Maher exclaimed. “It inspires half the country to not accept the basic Democrat principle that we have elections, and when you lose, you go away and then you become the loyal opposition.”
That’s when Mamet lost patience. “You, like me, have built a career out of nothing except talent and a little bit of luck and a lot of hard work, but you’re full of sh*t!”
“I don’t understand when you say that he did not say the words ‘I concede’, caused half the country, which you just said, to riot.”
source: Vigilant Fox on X
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