Hollywood Legend Reveals Trump Bitched Him Out For ‘Wussing Out’ On TV Over Stolen Election Lie

Hollywood legend David Mamet told comic, pundit, and podcast host Bill Maher that President Donald Trump called and lectured him for 20 minutes after he “wussed out” on TV and softened on the “stolen election” lie.

The veteran screenwriter and vociferous Trump fan was a guest on this week’s edition of Maher’s Club Random Podcast, during which Trump was a frequent topic of conversation.

In one exchange, Mamet revealed that after an appearance on Maher’s Real Time show, Trump called him and gave him an earful that seems to have worked:

BILL MAHER: Yeah, I mean, man, each book you get more right-wing, I have to say, you get–

Like the last one. I remember you were on my show and it was like one line in it that was–

And I said to you on the air, like, “Are you implying that that election was stolen by Biden, and you’re, no, I didn’t. You were kind of like hedging it. And now you’re like, you, you.

DAVID MAMET: You know, you don’t know what happened to me the next morning. You don’t what happened the next morning.

I was on your show and you said, “Are you implying that the Trump had meant that the election was stolen?”

And I was kind of iffy on it, right?

Next morning, eight o’clock, the phone rings. Woman on the phone says, “Mr. Mamet, will you hold for the president?”

I said wait a second, Biden is calling?

Is Trump! During the Biden administration. He says, “David, it’s Donald Trump.”

I say, “Oh, Mr. President, thank you for calling to what do I owe the honor?”

He said, “I saw you on Bill Ma yesterday, you were great. He said but you wussed out on the question of the stolen election.”

And then he talked to me for like 20 minutes about how the election was stolen.

BILL MAHER: It wasn’t!

DAVID MAMET: Well, I think it was.

BILL MAHER: But they’ve adjudicated this. They’ve looked at this. Republicans have looked at it. It was tested in court like 60 times. It was thrown out every time!

Trump’s own commission, appointed by his own commissioners to look at the election, the Cyber Security Commission, it’s called, or agency, there’s two of them. One of them is within the Department of Homeland Security.

They all said the same thing. It was the most fair, honest election we’ve ever had.

DAVID MAMET: I’m not talking about the votes. I’m not talking about counting the votes.

That the Hunter Biden laptop was suppressed, the COVID information was suppressed. Zuckerberg said himself that the White House pressured him not to bring forward the information on the laptop.

And Rasmussen said, had that come out, there would have been a 17 point spread.

BILL MAHER: Oh, please. Those, that’s so ridiculous!

Watch above via Bill Maher’s Club Random Podcast.

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