HBO host Bill Maher criticized media outlets for claiming former President Donald Trump suggested putting former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming in front of a “firing squad.”
Trump accused Cheney of always seeking “to go to war” during a Thursday forum hosted by Daily Caller cofounder Tucker Carlson, suggesting she would pursue a less aggressive foreign policy if she’d had guns “trained on her” at some point in her life. Maher said media outlets that claimed Trump wanted Cheney executed were not being truthful. (RELATED: ‘You’re A Huge Liar’: Bill Maher Pans Walz, Harris For ‘Insulting My Intelligence’ During CNN Interview)
“I woke up today to the headline that Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney, and this is what I really don’t like about the media,” Maher said in a panel discussion on “Overtime,” a webcast that streams after…