Buttigieg Pressed at Town Hall on ‘The Bill Maher Question’: What If You Win and Trump Refuses to Leave Office?
By Josh Feldman Feb 17th, 2020, 2:30 pm
Over the course of the Trump presidency, Bill Maher has regularly gone back to his “dictator checklist†and warned about a rise of authoritarianism in the country. In the past few weeks, he has been asking over and over again one question he wants Democratic candidates for president to answer: What if they win and President Donald Trump refuses to leave?
A couple of candidates have appeared on his show in the past few weeks, including Pete Buttigieg, and he’s asked that question to all of them.
Today during a town hall in Reno, one man brought up “the Bill Maher question†to ask the South Bend mayor again:
“It’s November, Pete Buttigieg just won the election, and the current occupant says, ‘No, this is all a hoax,’ the Senate agrees with him, Fox News starts going on about it — what does President-elect Buttigieg do about this when he doesn’t want to leave?â€
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