Bill Maher says charging Trump over Stormy Daniels hush money will be ‘rocket fuel’ for 2024
Bill Maher has criticized the investigation into Donald Trump’s secret money into porn star Stormy Daniels, saying any arrest would be “rocket fuel” for the former president’s 2024 election campaign.
Maher warned that the case, led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, was a “colossal mistake” as polls show Trump’s popularity has only risen as a result.
It comes as tensions between Bragg and Trump reached boiling point yesterday after the prosecutor received a death threat and a package of suspicious white powder.
“I really don’t want to give Donald Trump the satisfaction of talking about him. I thought that when he left, he would go away for a bit. Maher said on his Real Time show on Friday night.
‘But, you know, there’s a former president now who’s going to be arrested, possibly. And he’s talking about violence in the streets of his supporters if he does it.’
Bill Maher has closed the investigation into Donald Trump’s money to silence porn star Stormy Daniels during the Friday night episode of his Real Time show.
Maher’s guests, including journalist Annie Lowrey, right, and New York University professor Scott Galloway.
He added: “I would just like to go on record that I think this is a colossal mistake if they bring these charges.
‘Not just one, you know. I mean, yeah, he’s done a lot of bad things, and I’m sure he did this: everything he was accused of. [doing]He did.
But first of all, it’s not going to work. It’s going to be rocket fuel for his 2024 campaign.
‘And the MAGA nation will seem like, ‘Oh, you know, you tried Mueller, you tried Ukraine, you tried 9/6. Now let’s go to the porn star? Actually? Are you up for that?!”
His guests agreed when journalist Annie Lowrey pointed out that the investigation had already caused Trump’s popularity to skyrocket.
A Monmouth University poll shows Trump is 14 percentage points ahead of his likely leadership challenger, Ron DeSantis.
Another poll showed that 75 percent of Republican voters “know” that the allegations against Trump are bad, but they don’t think it matters either.
“I think we’ve seen, you know, in the past, though, many years at this point, the more attention is put on heavy, regardless of what it’s about, the more the circus has it in the center of their rings, the tendencies to do better,’ Lowrey said.
New York University professor Scott Galloway added that if an indictment does come, it will be a “perpetrator parade, not a perpetrator walk.”
The investigation centers on a $130,000 payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels by her then-attorney Michael Cohen.
On Friday, Trump posted a disturbing image of himself with a baseball bat pledging “death and destruction” if he is criminally charged.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is pictured Thursday arriving at his office.
Last Saturday, Trump sensationally announced that he was going to be arrested the following Tuesday.
He encouraged his followers to ‘protest!’ if he is charged, echoing calls he made after falsely telling his supporters that the 2020 election was stolen from him, resulting in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The allegations center on a $130,000 payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels by her then-attorney Michael Cohen.
The payment was intended to keep Daniels quiet about an alleged date between the two in 2006. Trump has always denied the affair.
However, Tuesday’s arrest did not take place.
On Friday, Trump posted a disturbing image of himself with a baseball bat pledging “death and destruction” if criminally charged.
“They are human scum,” he raged in a post asking why Bragg “refuses to do the right thing and call it a day.”
Yesterday, emergency crews were forced to respond to reports of a package containing suspicious powder being mailed to Bragg’s office.
Sources said it contained a note reading “ALVIN: WOW! ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
A member of the NYPD leaves the district attorney’s office at 80 Center Street with bags of evidence, following reports that an envelope containing white powder was delivered in New York City.
The package was sent around noon on Friday.
Daniels has now also gotten into the drama, telling her Twitter followers that it “feels fucking amazing” to take her alleged ex-lover along.
She wrote: “I stood up to that lying married man when he and his henchmen tried to intimidate and silence me…feels fucking amazing to be honest.”