Bill Maher accused Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) of avoiding his show, and he praised Republicans for being willing to debate him.
On Friday’s Real Time, Maher thanked Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) for appearing at the table by taking a shot at former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Ocasio Cortez.
“Thank you for being here. I always say that to my Republican friends. I say it every week. The Republicans show up,” Maher told Mace. “The Democrats do not. I say it every week. Stop asking me why the Clintons have never been on the show! They’re invited. AOC, all these people that never come. Ask them. Get on their case.”
CNN’s Michael Smerconish was also a panelist on the episode.
Maher went on to praise Republicans as “happy warriors” and then launching into the bombshell indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.
“You guys have been saying for a very long time that Trump just says stuff, but I mean come on. We’ve gone from just saying stuff now to, I mean James Comey. You know, I was saying in the monolog, you’re not supposed to comment at all a president on an ongoing investigation. He called him bad person, sick guy, did terrible things, guilty as hell. Would you at least agree that we are in a very different place than we’ve ever been?
Mace argued Comey has gotten on the wrong side of both Republicans and Democrats in her defense of the indictment.
“My perspective is that I don’t want us to rewrite history here. In 2016, Chuck Schumer said of James Comey that he lost all confidence in him. So there have been Republicans and there have Democrats who have expressed that James Comey has lied, has leaked,” she argued.
“That wasn’t talking about a trial,” Maher said. “That wasn’t talking about an ongoing investigation. That was just an opinion about a guy who was the FBI director.”
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