Bill Maher Gets Dr. Phil To Admit Trump Plot To Gain Seats Is ‘Some Bullshit’

Comedian and pundit Bill Maher got Dr. Phil to admit that the reasoning behind President Donald Trump’s demand for redistricting is “some bullshit.”

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and political commentator George Will.

The panel guests were Dr. Phil McGraw, founder of Envoy Media Co. and host of “The Real Story with Dr. Phil” podcast and “The Dr. Phil Podcast” and Stephen A. Smith, host of ESPN’s “First Take” and host of an upcoming political show on SiriusXM’s POTUS Politics.

Maher kicked off the panel segment by bringing up the Trump-fueled Texas redistricting push, asking Phil twice if the plan is “some bullshit”:

BILL MAHER: Here’s what’s new. In the past, states do this after the census, okay? You get the census every 10 years. You find out, oh, different number of people. Sometimes it makes sense. You have to redraw districts and so forth.

Now Trump wants a do-over. They did it after 2020 in Texas, and he’s saying, because they found out that he got a bigger part of the Hispanic vote, that they could redo the districting, and maybe he’ll win those districts. They’ve got Austin voting Republican!

Now here’s my question, Dr. Phil, you’re from Texas. This is some bullshit, isn’t it?

DR. PHIL MCGRAW: Thank you very much. Was there a question in there?

BILL MAHER: That was it. This is some bullshit, isn’t it?

DR. PHIL MCGRAW: Well, it depends. They’re not the only ones that have done this.

BILL MAHER: True.

DR. PHIL MCGRAW: The Democrats do it as well. They’ve done it in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania.

BILL MAHER: After the census. Never–.

DR. PHIL MCGRAW: Oh no, no, it’s not always done after the census, it’s done between as well, and clearly. It’s done for reasons to change the distribution. Texas is doing it because they say because they’ve got more Republican voters now, they should have more representation. Is that bullshit? Yeah, sort of.

BILL MAHER: Yes! So there was an answer, there was a simple answer.

McGraw and Smith would go on to accuse Democrats of being equivalent to Republicans on the issue, although Maher pointed out the key difference.

Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.