In the span of only two minutes, HBO’s Bill Maher unleashed a trio of hysterical and outrageous claims about President Trump’s utilization of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. First, he subtly implied the move was akin to a dictator like Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine, calling it “Page One Of The Dictator Handbook.” Then he doubled down on making fun of DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine for getting assaulted, before finally again warning the move might be the beginning of the end for democracy.
Maher worried that, “Trump says, ‘I'm not a dictator, I just know how to stop crime,’ and I take him at his word because when has he ever told a lie—but I will say this: page one of the dictator handbook is pretexts. You find a pretext to do what you want to do anyway. Say you want to invade another country—well, you say that some people of your ethnicity living in that country are being persecuted: voila, reason to invade.”
Dictators who have done that include Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler.
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