“Real Time” host Bill Maher sounded the alarm before former President Trump’s highly anticipated speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where he is expected to trigger another presidential run in 2024.
Towards the end of this panel discussion on Friday night, Maher brought up a topic he “didn’t want to talk about”, which was the 45th president, whose CPAC speech scheduled for Sunday in Orlando, Florida, will mark his first course undergraduate public appearance since leaving office.
“After he lost, people kept coming to me and [saying], ‘You go?’ and I say, ‘He’s gone. Stop obsessing. I don’t want to talk about him! ‘”Maher started. “But knowing what will happen this weekend at CPAC, I must bring this up. … The shark is not gone. We need a bigger boat. The shark went to the sea for a while, he will come back and eat more people on the coast. “
Maher continued: “He will say on Sunday that he is the likely candidate in 2024, no one will oppose him, there are nine panels at the CPAC convention on how the election was stolen, none on why it was lost. That’s where they are. If you think that 2024 will not be a nail rodent or that he will not be the one, I think you are being naive. “
Maher’s guest, Senator Jon Tester, D-Mont., Agreed, declaring Trump the “absolute leader now”, who “may very well be” the Republican Party candidate in 2024, citing the drastic turnaround of the minority-leading senator Mitch McConnell declaring that Trump would “absolutely” have his vote, despite his fierce condemnation of the former president after the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.
The New York Times’ other speaker Ezra Klein insisted that the “problem” is not Trump, but the Republican Party that “empowers him”, adding that he “does not have the courage” to tell the former president that he is “Bad for the party right now. ”
“The two wings of the party that I can see are Trump and the people who want to have their voters, who want to be his successor,” replied Maher. “There’s Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Nikki Haley. They want to be the next nominees, but they are not about to get rid of voters. They just want to be Trump’s successor. ”