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Welcome back to False Flag!
A newly unveiled deposition of HBO host Bill Maher in Laura Loomer’s lawsuit against him reveals Loomer’s lawyer trying and failing to achieve a surprising goal: convincing Maher that the activist would be a great guest on his late-night show.
Back in April, Loomer’s lawyer, Larry Klayman, spent a good portion of the deposition trying to get Maher to concede that the right-wing activist would dazzle on Real Time With Bill Maher.
“Based on your experience for thirty-some years being successful, as you state you have been, Ms. Loomer would have been a really great guest, correct?” Loomer’s lawyer Larry Klayman asked.
“Incorrect,” Maher replied.
Maher countered that Loomer is too despised, even by many on the right, to be worth inviting on. For example, Maher deemed Loomer’s 2024 remark about Kamala Harris making the White House smell like curry to be “way too out of bounds” for even a late-night show. Loomer, Maher said, was simply not “A-team” caliber to be on his show.
“If the Democrats don’t like her, and that’s obvious they don’t, and even the Republicans—even Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t like her—who is the constituency to watch her?” Maher said.
Painful as that may be, there is at least one constituency that definitely does watch Loomer: me! I watch her so you don’t have to. Which is why you should become a Bulwark+ member. Sign up today and get your first 30 days free:
–Will
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A DRAMATIC EFFORT by Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, to broker peace with her podcaster antagonist Candace Owens seemed to produce a détente on Monday evening, much to the relief of the MAGA movement.
It lasted all of a few hours.
On Tuesday afternoon, in the first episode of her show since the four-and-a-half-hour summit with Kirk in Nashville, Owens continued to stir controversy and conspiracies around Charlie Kirk’s death. She railed against specific Turning Point USA staffers she’s accused of dishonesty, and said TPUSA’s lawyer had failed to convince her that Tyler Robinson was Kirk’s assassin. The key text-message evidence against Robinson, Owens declared, was still “fake and gay.”
“I did not recant,” Owens said of her suspicions about the organization that Kirk founded.
The remarks are undoubtedly a setback both for Erika Kirk and for Megyn Kelly, who helped arrange the carefully negotiated sitdown with Owens. And they once again raise questions about whether anyone can stop the podcaster from ripping apart the MAGA movement with her wild, irresponsible theorizing about Kirk’s death.
Even by securing the sitdown with Erika Kirk, Owens scored a win in ...
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