Bill Maher Warns Adam Schiff About Trump and Jan. 6, 2025: ‘It’s Going To Get Very Violent Out There’
Comic and pundit Bill Maher warned Rep. Adam Schiff that former President Donald Trump will be more dangerous on January 6, 2025, and won’t “go away so easily.”
On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host sounded a familiar alarm when he told Schiff, who sits on the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol, that Trump is setting things up for 2024. Schiff largely agreed:
MAHER: What I care about is January 6, 2025. And as you know, because you wrote me a nice email after I did a piece a few weeks ago about what I thought was going to happen, the slow-moving coup which I’ve been talking about since before Trump was even elected. And if I could just review basically, I said that, you know, he thought last time that all the Republicans would fall in line with what he wanted and do his bidding, and they didn’t. Some had integrity. And what he’s been doing since is replacing those people. There’s a purge going on behind the scenes.
So next time, when he calls them up and says, I hope you can find me a few votes, they’re going to say how many he’s going to have his stooges in place. That was what you wrote me about. A lot of people did. I think it’s going to happen.
I think you guys, the Democrats are going to lose big in 2020, too, which is going to make it worse. Give more state legislatures that can do that kind of monkeying behind the scenes to put the people in place who will do Trump’s bidding. I think Trump is going to declare for office. I think he’s going to get the nomination. I think the rallies are going to start. People are going to be. It’s going to get very violent out there.
My question is, what are we doing about the next time the election happens, say Trump loses, doesn’t matter whether he if he loses, he’s going to say he won. We know that there’s no doubt he’s going to say I won, and this time he’s not going to go away so easily come January 20th. 2025. What are we doing about that when he is insisting that he is the president, whether he won or not? And there are people who are helping him with it.
SCHIFF: Well, I’m in complete agreement with him, with the alarm that you express and you feel about this because I think what Donald Trump took away from the failed insurrection is that if he couldn’t find, you know, 11000 votes in Georgia couldn’t find a corrupt elections official to give him those votes, he’s determined the next time he’ll have someone in that position who will. And basically, it’s a two pronged strategy.
They’re trying to disenfranchize people of color around the country so that they can win. And if they lose, they want to be positioned to overturn the result.
Where I would disagree with your your forecast, I hope and pray is we cannot lose the house. We must hold the house. If Kevin McCarthy had been speaker in 2020, if we’d lost a few more seats in the 2020 election in the House, he would have overturn the result in the House. He will do whatever Donald Trump tells him to do. Someone like that can never be allowed to go near the speaker’s office.
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