Bill Maher warns January 2025 will be 'a good time to leave the country' as he predicts Trump

[Celerity]

‘definitely’ runs

The host posited a hypothetical in which Mr Trump lost the election but had enough supporters in place to overturn the results

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bill-maher-trump-2024-election-b1990372.html



HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher is ringing alarm bells ahead of former President Donald Trump's presumed run for re-election in 2024, telling his audience that early 2025 might be a good time to consider leaving the country. During his Saturday night show, Mr Maher spoke with AL.com's Ben Flanagan about national affairs when the topic of Mr Trump was raised.

During the discussion, Mr Flanagan asked Mr Maher about a question he had recently raised: "What happens on January 20th, 2025, when Trump shows up despite election results that say otherwise?" Mr Flanagan asked the host "do you think democracy is really in trouble?" "First of all, he is definitely going to run. He’s definitely going to get the nomination. And he’s definitely not going to concede. He hasn’t conceded this election," Mr Maher said. Mr Maher suggested that, unlike in 2020, Mr Trump will "have people in place who will back him up”.

That’s what he didn’t have in 2020. He thought he did. He thought anyone who had an 'R' by their name would be on his side," he said. "He didn’t count on the fact that there were Republicans with integrity, who told him 'I’m sorry, sir. We looked and we looked and we looked, and you did not win this election.' He’s replacing those people. That’s what they’re doing." The television host posited a potential 2024 scenario in which Mr Trump loses the election but once again asks loyal Republican officials to "find" the votes needed to flip the election. He believes that, unlike 2020, those officials would comply and presumably suppress or throw out enough votes to secure a victory for Mr Trump.

"He’s not going to go away as easily as he did in 2020 next time. And that’s why January 2025 is going to be where the rubber hits the road in this country. We’ve been heading towards this cliff for a very long time, and we always think we’re the country where it can’t happen," he said. "Well, we thought that about terrorism. We thought that about everything. We’re not exempt. We are the country where it can happen. And when you have two claimants to the throne, I don’t know what happens. "He went on to say that "if you want to pick a time to take a vacation out of the country, that would be a good time to do it."

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[Yandex]

1. I'd be afraid to leave the country

What if I can't get back in?!

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Leave the Country? Why in the blank should we leave? trump should never be allowed to run

again, ever! Use the 14th Amendment, section 3 (I think that this is the applicable section) where those that are traitors to the Constitution and its Amendments are drummed out.

[rso]

3. Maher

He forgets that unlike last time, will be at a minimum, in control of the Executive Branch, meaning control of the military, Intel agencies and federal law-enforcement.

[Doc Sportello]

4. He also said drumpf wasn't going to leave office

He did. Bill was wrong.

On the show right before drumpf's final week, Maher showed clip after clip of himself saying drumpf wouldn't go. Maybe 10 clips, then of course repeated it on the show like he had already been proven right. He was wrong, and the next week Maher didn't even mention it.

[YP_Yooper]

18. He wasn't completely wrong

Trump spent a month after the election trying to strong-arm the Sec of States plus gathering his mindless orcs to show up on 1/6 to stop the certification - thereby keeping Trump in power. So Maher wasn't far off. If Trump simply refused to leave the WH, he would've been dragged out.

[Doc Sportello]

23. Yes, he was completely wrong

drumpf trying to overturn the election is NOT the same thing as leaving the WH. Maher said over and over and over that drumpf was NOT going to leave office and that members of the military, Rwingers and law enforcement would help him. drumpf LEFT OFFICE. Doesn't get any clearer than that.

[obamanut2012]

24. He was completely wrong

[sdfernando]

5. I long ago tired of Bill's schtick

Haven't watched his show in ages. He really annoys me now.

[obamanut2012]

25. same

[USALiberal]

26. But you took the time to post about him??

[ZZenith]

6. Fuck Bill Maher.

Now would be a good time for him to leave my country.

[PortTack]

7. Amen to that!!

[rockfordfile]

12. No. Bill Maher may say somethings I disagree with, but he's no right-wing pos

[Salviati]

17. Nah, he's just a regular narcissistic POS

Who thinks he's smarter than everyone else in the room, but is really just more sarcastic and cynical than anyone else.

[ZZenith]

20. Yes. Fuck Bill Maher.

He’s the worst kind of media whore - a hollow man who will say anything to get attention.

Not a sincere bone in his body.

[Phoenix61]

13. Ditto. nt

[spanone]

8. Bill, time for fight like hell for our country.

[milestogo]

9. I really don't think Trump is going to live that long.

He is on borrowed time already.

[Progressive Jones]

11. Ya beat me to it ! nt

[rickford66]

15. If Trump is pres-elect and dies before being sworn in

and before the vp-elect was sworn in, what does the Constitution say about succession ?

[obamanut2012]

27. The magic date is the EC voting cert

ie what happened last January 6. As soon as that happens, if the PE dies, the VPE is the President.

[Progressive Jones]

10. He'll have to be alive for any such scenario to develop. He's an old, unhealthy individual. nt

[Botany]

14. Bill Maher is not encumbered by being having his facts right or really knowing anything @ all about

... what he is saying. "His act" has devolved into one big "look @ me show" and when he says something outrageous or over the
top he knows what he is doing and that is getting people to watch his show which pulls in ratings and that puts money into his
pocket. Bill knows he is being a dick for money.

[onecaliberal]

16. They are killing their voters by the thousands daily.

They’re not even worried about voting, they’re installing people to COUNT the votes and certify the vote.

[Initech]

19. I'm hoping that I will be far enough in school that I could apply for a student visa.

Canada or Australia or New Zealand all seem nice!

[ZZenith]

22. Sayonara.

[brooklynite]

21. Talk show hosts are not generally where I go for political analysis.

[USALiberal]

28. Where do you go then, please post!! Nt

[obamanut2012]

29. Sexist, pretty transphobic Libertarian narcissist who is BFF with Coulter says what?

[walkingman]

30. His dismissal of Covid was dumb and the audience seemed to like it. Welcome to America.