Maher: ‘If Putin Thought Trump Was Really That Supportive’ Then ‘Why Didn’t He Invade When Trump Was

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Maher: ‘If Putin Thought Trump Was Really That Supportive’ Then ‘Why Didn’t He Invade When Trump Was in Office?’

Ian Hanchett 11 Mar 2022

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized people who have attempted to make the Russian invasion of Ukraine about their pet issues and criticized those who have attempted to blame the invasion on former President Donald Trump by asking, “if Putin thought Trump was really that supportive of him, why didn’t he invade when Trump was in office?” And arguing that the question’s worth asking “if you’re not locked into one, intransigent thought.”

Maher began his closing monologue by stating, “Watching the reactions to war in Ukraine these past few weeks, it’s become obvious that America in this age suffers acutely from a particular disease of the mind, which is: everything proves what we already believed, and everything goes back to the thing we already hate. … So, naturally, Republicans blamed Ukraine on Biden being the worst president ever, and Democrats blamed it on Trump’s being the worst president ever, which he was, there is that.”

He added, “If Putin thought Trump was really that supportive of him, why didn’t he invade when Trump was in office? It’s at least worth asking that question if you’re not locked into one, intransigent thought.”

Maher also criticized former President Donald Trump for saying the invasion was about the “rigged” 2020 election and attempts to bring issues like race, American self-loathing, LGBTQ rights, and cancel culture into the discussion on Ukraine.

Maher concluded, “Ukraine is not mostly about your pet grievances. It’s about Vladimir Putin’s, and Putin is bad, very, very, very bad.”

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Maher: ‘Very Strange’ for Biden to Cut Off Russian Oil and Then Beg Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Iran

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said it’s “very strange” for President Joe Biden to cut off oil imports from Russia while asking Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Iran to produce oil.

Maher stated, “When we cut off the oil from Russia, it raises the price. Because it’s fungible. Because all around the world, we’re taking, really, from the same pot, and then who gets richer from that? Vladimir Putin. I mean, there’s something very strange about Biden saying we’re going to cut off Russian oil, but I’m going to go and beg Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Iran, the people who, a few weeks ago, we cut off and wouldn’t buy their oil. Because they were the bad guy, but now they’re less the bad guy. We’ve got to find a better way to play this game than who’s the bad guy of the week we’re not buying oil from?”

He added that the news on the environment is getting worse, “But the problem is that…we’re not going to get oil from Russia, but we still need the same amount of oil. No, we’re not going to drill here, but we still keep using the same amount of oil. That’s the problem, is that we don’t — I read that, last year, 2020, we bought more trucks than cars. … No one cares enough.”

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