Kellyanne Conway Argues Jan. 6 Hearings Are Purely Political On Bill Maher’s ‘Real Time’

Last night on HBO‘s Real Time with Bill Maher, ex-Donald Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway was invited on the show to discuss her time with the former President and the January 6th hearings that are currently taking place in Congress.

The episode came just a day after the first night of the Jan. 6 hearings, making her appearance extremely timely. As one of Trump’s biggest advisers and supporters, who left just before the 2021 capitol riot that attempted to overturn the United States Presidential election, she had plenty to say.

Maher, Conway and other panelist Josh Barro sparred over the topic with the HBO host attempting many times to get Conway to stop defending Trump and admit that he shouldn’t be president again. As you could probably guess, he wasn’t successful.

You can check out a portion of the heated debate via the short clip above.

At the start of the clip, Conway asks, “why is every day Jan. 6,” implying that she doesn’t understand why people are up in arms about an event that investigators have described as an attempted coup.

Maher explained that, “because, on that day, apparently, he asked for his Vice President to be murdered. Now, how do you spin that?”

Conway spun this the best way she knew how. “That’s, those are reports I’ve seen that people are saying that. And if people were threatening the life of the Vice President, I’m sure there are great federal laws against that. Let’s use them,” she said with an unmistakable smirk.

Barro jumped in, pointing out that the speech Trump gave just before the riot, “where he said all those awful things about Mike Pence and urged that raucous crowd to go and-“

“To go and hang him? Did he, what did he say, he said ‘fight like hell,’” Conway interrupted.

Barro added that “it was entirely foreseeable” how the crowd of Trump supporters would interpret Trump’s words. But Conway dismissed that as “Fight like hell? What every college football coach says to the guys that are taking the field?”

Maher later asked his panel if Trump’s behavior both on Jan. 6 and in other instances, like when he tried to convince the Georgia Secretary of State to “find” more votes for him, “should he be able to run for president again?”

“Hold on, that’s what this is all about. At least you admit it, at least you said the quiet part out loud, that these investigations are about preventing him from ever running again,” Conway replied. “They should just admit that. They should say ‘We have absolutely no man with a plan in the White House, we’re paying 5 dollars a gallon for gas…”

Maher attempted to steer the conversation back on track but Conway deflected saying “you’re always talking about Donald Trump. He hasn’t been president in a year and a half.”

Bottom line is that two opposing sides in United States politics still appear to be unable to have an intellectual conversation about the topic and make any concession whatsoever.

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