Bill Maher Slams Kamala Harris For Opposing Trump’s Iran War: ‘I See So Much Happiness’ | EUROtoday

“Real Time” host Bill Maher continued to color himself as a progressive critic of President Donald Trump whereas additionally taking a swipe at former Vice President Kamala Harris for criticizing the Iran conflict — admitting on Friday that he doesn’t “hate it.”

“Also, this week, war,” stated Maher. “Did you hear about that thing? We bombed Iran and it’s going on. Now, if you expect me to say I hate it, I don’t. Sorry! When he puts boots on the ground, yeah, then I’ll hate it. Now, I know too many happy Iranian Americans, sorry.”

He continued, “You cannot name one horrible thing that has happened in the Middle East in the last 50 years and not connect it to this fascist theocracy. They’re like six degrees of ‘they don’t eat bacon.’ And it’s popular!” Maher made no point out of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, nor the kidnapping and torture of Iraqi civilians at Abu Ghraib.

The host then criticized partisan reactions to the battle in Iran, particularly Harris’s take.

“When it comes to the war … everybody assesses everything by way of, ‘Did my team do it? Then I love it. If their team did it, I hate it,’” he stated.

“I mean, Kamala Harris made a statement, she said, ‘This is a war the American people don’t want,’” Maher continued. “And who knows more about what the American people don’t want?”

The comic went on to joke about his private rift with Trump following their non-public dinner collectively final yr, earlier than persevering with to endorse the Iran conflict with visitors Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former CNN host Don Lemon.

“I just don’t get what liberals don’t get about liberation,” stated Maher. “I see so much happiness. I see it in Venezuela, I see it here in Iran. Could we skip the part where we talk about, ‘Oh, they had so many different reasons for going to war,’ ‘regime change’ and ‘we gotta get rid of the nukes’ and ‘they were supporters of terrorism.’”

Maher argued that it’s all the above, stating that “nothing in the Middle East was ever going to get better” with a authorities of this sort remaining in place. He then made the case that Trump is making an attempt to exchange Iran’s theocracy with a democracy.

CNN host Dana Bash, nonetheless, reported earlier within the day that she had spoken with Trump herself, to intriguing outcomes.

“I said, ‘Well, would you be OK with a religious leader in Iran?’” Bash stated Friday on CNN. “And he said, the answer is yes. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a democratic leader in Iran. It just has to be somebody who treats the U.S. and Israel fairly.”