‘Real Time’: Bill Maher Thinks Newsom Could Be The Next “Hot Felon” Amid Trump Defiance: “The Guy For The Democratic Party”

[ad_1] As California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to combat Donald Trump‘s ICE raids and army occupation, Invoice Maher sees presidential materials.

On Friday’s episode of Actual Time, the comic recommended Newsom might be “the man for the Democratic get together, like I all the time thought he’d be” after the governor and President Trump fought for management of California’s Nationwide Guard in courtroom.

“You understand what occurs in films; as quickly as there’s an enormous downside, a hero will rise,” stated Maher. “And I believe we noticed that this week, as a result of Gavin Newsom—this makes me really feel good, as a result of folks make enjoyable of me on a regular basis. ‘Why do you stick to Gavin? He’s too far left.’ Yeah, however he’s been shifting to the middle these days, and he kinda had his second now.”

Maher added, “I did a joke within the monologue about it, however he’s saying, ‘Trump likes this.’ I believe he may like this too.”

After a federal appeals courtroom sided with Trump, Maher shared a information clip of Gov. Newsom difficult the twice-impeached president. “Come after me, arrest me. Let’s simply get it over with, powerful man,” stated Newsom within the video.

“You assume Trump appreciated having his face on a mugshot? This man needs his face on a mugshot. He might turn into like one of many ‘Sizzling Felons’,” joked Maher, offering a graphic to make his level.

On Wednesday, Newsom condemned Donald Trump in a fiery speech after the president deployed almost 5,000 troops to LA amid ICE raid protests, lambasting the “brazen abuse of energy by a sitting president [that] infected a flamable state of affairs, placing our folks, our officers and even our Nationwide Guard in danger.”

“Look, this isn’t nearly protests in LA. That is about all of us. That is about you. California could also be first — however it clearly received’t finish right here. Different states are subsequent,” stated Newsom, including: “Democracy is beneath assault proper earlier than our eyes. The second we’ve feared has arrived.”

Gov. Newsom’s speech got here lower than an hour after LA Mayor Karen Bass issued a dusk-to-dawn curfew for tonight on a on-mile sq. space of DTLA. After Trump Golden federalized State Nationwide Guard on June 7 as protestors centered on federal buildings getting used as makeshift detention facilities, 4,000 members of the Guard are downtown together with 700 U.S. Marines.

Seen by many as a prelude to invoking the Rebellion Act, Trump’s order to place Nationwide Guard boots on the tense streets of LA got here with none session with Newsom, the Governor has stated repeatedly the previous few days.

Newsom’s sharply-crafted phrases prefaced a federal choose’s Thursday ruling that Trump “return management of the California Nationwide Guard” to the governor, a choice that was rapidly overturned by an appeals courtroom forward of a June 17 listening to on the matter.