Kellyanne Conway denounced the storming of the Capitol and mentioned she had insisted to President Trump for months that he’d misplaced the election, however in any other case discovered little frequent floor with Invoice Maher over the legacy of the final 4 years.
“How do you look again now … something go mistaken?” the host of HBO’s Actual Time With Invoice Maher requested Trump’s former and indefatigable senior counselor.
“Keep in mind, rather a lot went proper… Individuals are higher off and you may’t deny that,” Conway mentioned of the person who wouldn’t put on a masks.” Properly, Maher mentioned, “A variety of them are lifeless.”
The comic was again for his first present since earlier than Thanksgiving. “Been on a sort of information food regimen Did something huge occur?” He requested. “Trump supporters taking the steps? That is one thing that I by no means thought I might see in America.”
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Testomony to the searingly complicated second we’re in, Maher had few solutions and fewer one liners than typical, taking the hour to lift questions — the identical ones many people are batting round — together with his panelists Katie Couric and Matt Jones, Kentucky radio host and creator of Mitch, Please!.
What’s going to Mitch McConnell do? Will the Senate convict? Will Trump fade away or stick round? What’s his subsequent transfer? Will an impeachment overly disrupt president-elect Joe Biden’s first 100 days? Couric mentioned, sadly, she thinks tv networks will likely be doing a “completely happy dance” if there’s a trial as a result of it’s extra Trump and he’s nonetheless nice for scores.
In case Trump occurred to be watching, Maher had some recommendation, embedded in a customized made rhyming youngsters’s guide known as — Pack Your Shit And Go.
“All of the votes have been counted, all of the courts have mentioned no. You’re all out of choices. Now pack your shit and go.”
“It’s clear that you simply’re offended, that you simply’re feeling fairly low. That feeling’s known as dropping. So pack your shit and go.”
“You handled your job like a actuality present. Now it’s been canceled.”
“So pack your shit and go.”