Hollywood Filmmaker Oliver Stone shocked Bill Maher by telling him he thinks the 2020 election was stolen from Trump
It has been noted that Bill Maher went head-to-head with Oliver Stone when the Real Time host defended the integrity of the 2020 election while challenging the film director’s conspiratorial beliefs.
Stone joined Maher last week for a broad-range conversation on the latter’s Club Random podcast, where the conversation eventually wound up coming to whether President Joe Biden is actually more of an authoritarian than former President Donald Trump.
Maher took the position that Trump was worse between the two, pointing out that he “still has not conceded the election” three years after his defeat.
“Do you know for a fact that he lost?” Stone asked. Maher was clearly exasperated by the question, causing Stone to add, “I’m just curious and I just don’t know all the facts.”
“Well I do,” Maher retorted. “Is there a conspiracy theory you don’t believe?”
“Oh, come on, Bill!” Stone groaned.
Shortly thereafter, Maher launched into an extended explanation of how Trump’s attempts to legally dispute the election results were constantly rejected, even as he continues to lie and claim the contest was corrupted by mass fraud. Stone deflected by referring to the controversies surrounding the 2000 election, and it continued to spill out from there.
STONE: That was horrifying to me. What happened when the Supreme Court closed that down? You know, what happened there. I mean, you know, the popular vote was won.
MAHER: So, what? Should we just keep counting votes forever, or should we still be counting —
STONE: Count them correctly.
MAHER: They did count them correctly!
STONE: Let’s just get rid of the Electoral College. Let’s do a popular vote.
MAHER: The people who have testified that this was a fair and well-run election. It’s a who’s who of people like Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell. You’re talking about Liz Cheney. You’re talking about dyed-in-the-wool, serious conservative Republicans who went with Trump really further out than a lot of us thought they would go with a guy like “McCain’s not a war hero.” “Okay, We forgive you.” Lots of sh*t that he did agreeing with Putin at Helsinki against our intelligence agencies. But I know we don’t want to talk about Putin. But it’s like, we found the thing that was their safe word, the thing that made them go, “no, that’s too far.” And it was we have elections in this country. If we don’t transfer power peacefully. If somebody doesn’t just be an adult and say, “Okay, you can’t win them all. We lost that one. Good luck, sir.” When Obama became president, George Bush stood with him and he said we want you to succeed. They don’t do that anymore. Not that I love George Bush, but what a great moment.
STONE: So what do you think happened in 2000, in Florida.
Hollywood Filmmaker Oliver Stone SHOCKS Bill Maher by telling him he thinks the 2020 election was stolen from Trump
As usual, Maher brings up the sheep talking points, "But all the lawsuits were dismissed and laughed out of court."
What Bill and many other people with negative… pic.twitter.com/1tXdMSuDrs
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