Not the perfect Stormy: Maher
Comedian Bill Maher is seeing through the Stormy weather surrounding former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan.
The HBO host, 68, dredged up an interview porn star Stormy Daniels gave to him in 2018 — which raises questions about the credibility of her testimony on the witness stand.
“She’s a bad witness,” Maher declared during Friday night’s episode of “Real Time,” after joking, “It’s Stormy or bust.”
The comic and pundit played a clip from the 2018 interview in which Daniels was emphatic that her alleged July 2006 hankypanky with Trump was consensual and not to be construed as part of the MeToo movement that was in full swing at the time.
“You say it’s not a MeToo case,” Maher pressed Daniels at the time.
“It’s not a MeToo case,” Daniels replied. “I wasn’t assaulted. I wasn’t attacked, or raped, or coerced or blackmailed.
“They tried to shove me in the MeToo box to further their own agenda. And first of all, I didn’t want to be part of that because it’s not the truth and I’m not a victim in that regard.”
But in the new segment, Maher assessed, “That’s not what she’s saying now.”
He cited her at times salacious and graphic descriptions of foreplay with the future president during her recent testimony, in which Daniels, 45, described a power imbalance with the billionaire, 77.
Daniels claimed that Trump “was bigger and blocking the way,” at the end of it, saying “my hands were shaking so hard,” and “I just wanted to leave.” She also claimed that she “blacked out” during the encounter.
Maher contended that Daniels’ testimony now has deviated from her original iteration of the alleged encounter.
“It’s all the MeToo buzzwords. She said, ‘There was an imbalance of power for sure’ . . . ‘My hands were shaking so hard.’ She said she blacked out. Blacked out? She’s a porn star!” Maher exclaimed.