'That's a crime!' HBO's Bill Maher corners Trump defender over criminal indictments

Commentator Batya Ungar-Sargon, a Newsweek opinion editor who can often be seen defending Donald Trump, got some pushback from HBO host and comedian Bill Maher on Friday night.

Ungar-Sargon appeared alongside former Democratic lawmaker Tim Ryan, who has previously been described as a "working-class-jobs candidate," on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Ryan argued that the Supreme Court wasn't going to stop Donald Trump, and that voters must defeat him at the polls.

For Ungar-Sargon's part, she claimed that many Americans support Trump because of what she sees as unprecedented "lawfare" against the ex-president.

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"You're not going to like this," Ungar-Sargon said to Maher, saying there are "two ways" to see Trump's 91 indictments. She said people either look at them and see someone who has certainly done something wrong, or they see an individual who is clearly being targeted by the government's prosecutors.

"With every additional indictment, people move from the first group into the second group," the editor added.

When Maher brought up Trump "trying to steal the American people's right to vote," Ungar-Sargon suggested Maher should be concerned by the "exploding, ever-growing lawfare effort."

"Not if the guy is guilty!" Maher shouted. "Of course not." He then asked her who won the 2020 election.

"Obviously Joe Biden," she said.

He replied, "It's not obvious to Trump."

"That's not a crime," she said, causing Maher to hit back harder.

"It kinda is when you're president... it's a crime to put up false electors. It's a crime to call up a guy and say I need to find 11,000 votes. That's a crime!" the host added.

When she said that's "maybe a crime," and suggested Trump is "innocent until proven guilty," Maher said, "That's why I want the goddamned trial!"

You can see Maher further schooling Ungar-Sargon about the differences between Joe Biden's first term and Donald Trump one term below or at the link: