Bill Maher Delivers Final Insult to Kellyanne Conway on ‘Real Time’
On the night of Jan. 7, a full day after a military of Trump fanatics—on the president’s urging—stormed the U.S. Capitol on a mission to overthrow the government, menacing congresspeople and killing a police officer within the course of, Kellyanne Conway issued a rambling statement on Twitter. In it, one among Trump’s most loyal and semi-trusted advisers condemned the occasions as “outrageous and inexcusable,” adopted by the comical lie that her former boss had “denounced the violence, acknowledged the certified election results and committed to a ‘peaceful transfer of power’ to the Biden-Harris Administration.”
The wildly false declare was met with a near-universal raised eyebrow, together with by Kellyanne’s personal teenage daughter, who stated to her mom (via TikTok), “How do you feel about your army becoming rioters?”
Well, Kellyanne—who as soon as invented a terrorist assault within the “Bowling Green Massacre”—visited Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night for its 19th season premiere. Kellyanne and Maher have a historical past of chumminess courting again to his ABC present Politically Incorrect, and, maybe as a result of she will be able to now not be of any use, the comic lobbed a number of robust questions within the route of the skilled obfuscator and lie-teller (in between smiles and yuk-yuks, in fact, as is his wont).
After joking about her inauguration apparel, Kellyanne confessed that she’d tried to ship a message to Trump on Jan. 6, as his followers (once more, at his incitement) have been storming the U.S. Capitol whereas he did completely nothing.
“I wish the president had spoken with the people earlier to get them the hell out of there,” provided Conway, including, “I did get through to him. I’d said to the person standing next to them, ‘Please add my name to the chorus of people just saying, you have to tell them to get out. I don’t know what they’re doing, why they’re there, but tell them to get out.”
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Then Maher countered: “You must admit that the reason why they were there is cause he never conceded the election.”
“Well, I did a long time ago,” replied Conway, reasonably hollowly. “I think the real disappointment for people like me is that the last two months, let’s just say from November 6 to January 6, weren’t spent mostly talking about the accomplishments, reviewing the accomplishments. He built the greatest economy we had.”
“He built it? It was pretty much built,” fired again Maher, neglecting to point out that as Trump leaves workplace, there are 10.7 million people out of work—a quantity that remained unchanged from December to January, as Trump has seemingly spent all his time watching cable information, complaining concerning the election, and sure, encouraging a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol and Congress, together with his Vice President Mike Pence.
Kellyanne provided extra unconvincing defenses of Trump’s presidency, together with that he “rebuilt the military” (it was by no means in dire straits) and moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, an empty gesture if there ever was one.
Then, she delivered the kicker: “I mean, you can’t deny that many people are better off.”
“Well, they’re not better off now!” Maher exclaimed. “A lot of them are dead.”
Yes, though Kellyanne needs the final two months of Trump’s election have been spent admiring his (meager) listing of so-called accomplishments, the time would have been much better spent attempting to curb a lethal pandemic that Trump and his minions helped run wild due to their inaction—one which has claimed shut to 400,000 lives and pushed thousands and thousands extra into poverty. Shameful, actually. And Maher, reasonably than complimenting her apparel or wishing her a “happy birthday” towards the tip of their chat, might have carried out a greater job of holding her toes to the fireplace.
Hopefully, for America’s sake, that is the final time we see these two yak it up on TV (or see Kellyanne on TV in any respect).
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