“Real-time” host Bill Maher sounded the alarm over former President Trump’s long-awaited speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where he is expected to mock a another presidency in 2024.
Towards the end of that roundtable Friday night, Maher raised an issue he “didn’t want to talk about,” which was the 45th president, whose planned speech CPAC on Sunday in Orlando, Florida, will mark his first major public appearance since he left office.
“After losing, people kept coming to me and [saying], “Will you?” and I say, ‘He is gone. Stop obsessing. I don’t want to talk about him! Maher began. “But knowing what will happen this weekend at the CPAC, I have to raise it. … The shark is not gone. We need a bigger boat. The shark went out to sea for a while, will return and eat more people on the shore.
Maher continued: “He will say on Sunday that he is the alleged candidate in 2024, no one will oppose him, there are nine panels at the CPAC convention on how the elections were stolen, none on why they were lost. There they are. where they are. If you believe that in 2024 he will not be a nailer or that he will not be the candidate, I think you will be naive. “
Maher’s guest, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., Agreed and declared Trump “the absolute leader right now,” that he “could very well be” the GOP candidate in 2024, citing the drastic turn of minority Sen. Mitch McConnell leader, who declared that Trump would have his vote “absolutely” despite his fierce condemnation of the former president after the January 6 Capitol Uprising.
Group member Ezra Klein of the New York Times insisted that the “problem” is not Trump, but the Republican Party that “allows it,” adding that “they don’t have the courage” to tell the former president that is “Bad for the party right now.”
“The two party wings I can see are Trump and then the people who want to take their voters, who want to be their successor,” Maher replied. “There are Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and Nikki Haley. They want to be the next candidate, but they are not about to get rid of their voters. They just want to be Trump’s successor. ”