Invoice Maher made a daring admission about President Donald Trump‘s push to reclassify marijuana.
On the Friday, August 23 episode of Actual Time With Invoice Maher, the host, 69, confessed that he lastly agrees with a coverage change backed by the POTUS, 79.
“I instructed you so,” Maher mentioned through the “New Guidelines” section of his late-night HBO present. “I’ve been telling Democrats for years, the Republicans are gonna steal pot from you as a problem.”
“What did you count on?” he continued. “He’s the grasp at successful votes from small teams who’re obsessed with one difficulty — choosing up a pair p.c right here, a pair there, till on election night time, it’s ‘Y-M-C-A!’”
Throughout the remainder of the section, Maher identified most of the one-issue voters Trump received over since his first time period as president. They included waitresses after ending taxes on suggestions and TikTok customers after “saving” the platform, along with those that help Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s views on vaccines being optionally available and “making America wholesome once more.”
“Did he win the Black vote? Not even shut,” Maher continued. “However he doubled what he received in 2020, and in locations like Philly, Detroit and Milwaukee, that was the distinction.”
He then boldly declared, “And now he’s gonna do it with pot. Lastly, he received round to me.”
On August 11, Trump held a information convention on the White Home briefing room, the place he confirmed his administration’s want to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 3 drug.
“We’re reclassification and we’ll make a dedication over the following —I’d say over the following few weeks, and that dedication hopefully would be the proper one, he mentioned,” per ABC Information. “It’s very difficult topic.”
The POTUS added of marijuana, “I’ve heard nice issues having to do with medical, and I’ve had dangerous issues having to do with nearly all the things else. However medical, and, you understand, for ache and numerous issues. Some folks prefer it, some folks hate it.”
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