Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter David Mamet has recalled once receiving a lengthy phone call from Donald Trump after he dared not to go all in on the then-former president’s 2020 election conspiracy theories.
Trump loyalist Mamet, appearing on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast this week, remembered being “kind of iffy” about whether the election had been stolen from Trump during an appearance on Maher’s HBO show, “Real Time.”
At 8 a.m. the following day, the Hollywood veteran said he received a call from Trump who told him: “I saw you on Bill Maher yesterday, you were great. But you wussed out on the question of the stolen election.”
Trump then “talked to me for like 20 minutes about how the election was stolen,” Mamet told Maher.
“But it wasn’t,” Maher reminded him.
Mamet, a yearslong vocal critic of progressive causes who has called former President Barack Obama a “tyrant” and described diversity, equity and inclusion efforts as “garbage,” responded: “Well, I think it was.”
Maher noted how the claim that the election was rigged for now-former President Joe Biden has fallen flat in dozens of court cases, been dismissed by Trump’s own commissioners and analysts have described the 2020 vote as “the most fair, honest election we’ve ever had.”
Mamet argued that Trump would have won by a majority had various issues not been suppressed. “Oh, please. That’s so ridiculous,” said Maher, who doubted they would have swung the result.
Watch from the 5:30 point here: