‘Just Admit It!’ Bill Maher Badgers Trump Fan Guest To Say MN Shooter ‘Is A Trumper!’
Comic and political pundit Bill Maher badgered Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) to “admit” that Minnesota assassination suspect Vance Boelter is a supporter of President Donald Trump.
On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist and author of the new book “Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up.”
The panel guests were Paul Begala, Democratic strategist and political contributor at CNN; and Rep. Wesley Hunt, Republican congressman who represents the 38th district of Texas.
During the panel discussion, the targeted shootings of Minnesota Democrats State Sen. John Hoffman and Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman came up.
Maher spent several minutes insisting that Hunt admit that suspect Boelter “was a Trumper,” promising he’d have done the same if the situation were reversed:
BILL MAHER: Let me go back to what happened in Minnesota, because this is the last one. This guy named Vance Boelter, of course it is, he’s plainly a Trumper! Oh, come on!
REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX): No, go ahead.
BILL MAHER: He voted for Trump. He was at Trump rallies. He’s a super duper Christian his big issue was he hated abortion that– were performing abortions. He had a list of 45 people he the two people he shot were Democrats, state Democrats. He had list of forty-five other people, all Democrats!
The fact that so many people in your party– Donald Trump jr. Representative Derek Van Orden I don’t know who he is, but he’s a jerk I think–.
Uh, he must be, uh, Senator Mike Lee, all pretended that this guy, who’s plainly a Trumper!
I mean, look, we just admit it, it happens on both sides. But the level of lying here, Donald Trump, uh “The guy who committed these atrocities this weekend is a Democrat.”.
No he’s not, Mike Lee, “This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way,” uh Van Orden, this guy he said he did it because the people shot weren’t far left enough. You know these are lies! See, I mean, you guys, I know you…
REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX): The pharmaceutical CEO that was murdered was wrong. The gentleman that did this is wrong–.
BILL MAHER: And he’s a Trump-er. Just admit that this one is- This one is a Trumper! This guy is, this is right.
REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX): The guy who shot –(CROSSTALK).
BILL MAHER: Just don’t lie to me!
REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX): At some point, when we are talking about people arbitrarily murdering people, we are talking about…
BILL MAHER: It’s not arbitrary!
REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX): …People that are off the reservation. They’re crazy. This man is crazy. I don’t care if he’s a Trumper or not. I don’t care if you’re from the left or not, that’s crazy. We don’t murder people in this country. That’s not the way.
I hear your point, but I don’t care if she’s a Trump or not it’s wrong.
BILL MAHER: Crazy is a little different.
REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX): He is absolutely crazy by the way, I mean…
BILL MAHER: You know what? Crazy is a little different. This is political violence. People commit political violence all the time, who aren’t like clinically crazy.
REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX): Will you agree, will you agree political violence or not if you’re gonna go murder somebody you’re off?
BILL MAHER: If this had been the reverse, I would admit to you so easily.
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