HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher called out the legacy media for pushing the false headline that former President Donald Trump called for former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wis.) to face a “firing squad.”
In a move that bucked the liberal hoax narrative, Maher on Friday lambasted the media and Democrats for “lying” about what Trump actually said about Cheney.
“I woke up today to the headline that Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney. 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 [do],” Maher told his guest, fellow Trump-hater Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).
Maher explained that Trump was calling Liz Cheney a “radical war hawk” and was not calling for violence against the disgraced neocon former congresswoman.
Here’s Trump’s actual quote:
She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, we’ll send tens of thousands of troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’
“He’s criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean, she is Dick Cheney’s daughter,” Maher quipped, adding that Trump’s controversial remark “sounds like what hippies used to say about not sending people to [die].”
“He said, ‘She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it.’ Just to be clear, this is exactly what hippies always said,” Maher noted.
“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 — apropos of Ukraine, because, I don’t know, that war does not look like it’s going in the right direction.”
“But just so — just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me she was in — 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 [die],” he added.
Even Raskin agreed with Maher, saying, “I agree with you on the lying. That is ridiculous and absurd and counterproductive” and “just a distortion.”
The media’s fake news has already compelled Arizona’s Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes to announce her office launched an investigation into whether Trump’s remarks about Cheney qualify as a death threat
“I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws,” Mayes said, adding Trump could be charged with a misdemeanor or even a felony.
But the backlash against this latest media hoax became so enormous that even CNN’s Jonah Goldberg, who said on air that Trump was calling for Cheney’s “execution,” retracted his remarks.