The Democratic strategist accused Maher of lending ‘legitimacy and credence’ to Trump’s behavior

Political strategist James Carville has branded Bill Maher “supremely naive” after the comedian dined with President Donald Trump and praised him as an “effective politician.”

Carville, who helped get Bill Clinton elected to the presidency, hit out at Maher and accused him of giving Trump “legitimacy.”

The criticism comes after Maher, a longtime critic of the president, had a private dinner at the White House with Trump at the end of March. He made the surprise admission that, actually, he found Trump “gracious and measured” despite railing against him regularly on TV.

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In this one isolated instance Carville isn’t wrong for once. Which is actually very notable. That said fuck both Maher and Carville

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Bill Maher is a right wing troll, who’s surprised he’s meeting with a fascist regime?

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Seriously… This fucking guy… “I like weed so that makes me liberal, but fuck the left on every other meric possible oh and don’t even get me started on anyone younger than me, they deserve death.”

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Also I’m a free speech absolutist except for anyone who’s ‘woke’ or Palestinian.

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He’s not a right-wing troll he is the epitome of what the DNC has become without all the populist rhetoric

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The captured opposition portion of the DNC, yes, who are right wing trolls, so also yes.

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He’s not even a comedian. He’s a propagandist who wishes he was Jon Stewart

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I was thinking of something clever and this is just better. Bravo. Bill Maher is such an idiot

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I recently heard somebody say that Joe Rogan wishes he was Bill Maher. Do we have a wannabe chain started here?

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Joe wishes he was Carlin or Dave Chappelle or Mike Tyson

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Lol. Rogan has like ten times the number of viewers as Maher, if not more than that. It’s the other way around. Maher is a loser who only appeals to a rapidly shrinking audience.

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Maher isn’t naive. He is knowingly and willing being the living embodiment of the concern troll… the “Now I’m a Leftist, but can we all admit that Ayn Rand is Hella based?” Kinda guy

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James carville putting his name out there. Must have a book coming out. What a piece of shit human.

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