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“Real Time” host Bill Maher abruptly put his visitor Dr. Phil within the scorching seat on Friday for becoming a member of the Trump administration’s ICE raids, which led to a tense alternate between the 2 personalities.
“Why are you happening these ICE raids?” Maher requested Dr. Phil. “I don’t perceive that.”
Maher continued: “You’re a man who we all know for thus a few years who has been working to place households collectively. To deliver households who’re aside and heal them. And now you’re happening raids with people who find themselves actually separating households.”
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Invoice Maher put visitor Dr. Phil within the scorching seat on his present “Actual Time” on Friday, Aug. 8, when discussing the Trump administration’s ICE raids and Dr. Phil’s participation in them. (HBO)
The previous medical psychologist pulled no figurative punches.
“Effectively, now that’s bullsh—t,” Dr. Phil countered, earlier than launching right into a comparability.
“Look, for those who arrest any person that’s a citizen, that has committed a crime or is DUI’d with a toddler within the backseat, do you assume they don’t separate that household proper then, proper there?” Dr. Phil requested. “After all they do!”
“However that’s not what’s happening,” Maher argued.
Moments earlier, Maher had launched the subject as “one other factor” President Donald Trump is doing as he’s “doubling down on unpopular.”
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President Donald Trump excursions a migrant detention middle, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” positioned on the web site of the Dade-Collier Coaching and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida. (AFP by way of Getty)
Dr. Phil took an excellent additional step again, addressing a part of Maher’s monologue the place he had criticized masked ICE brokers. He mentioned the masks are a results of legislators “doxxing” officers.
“[Legislators are] placing their names, their photos, their addresses of their households on the web, they’re placing them on phone poles,” Dr. Phil famous. “So, after all, they’re sporting masks in order that they don’t get outed, so folks can do violence towards their households.”
The previous discuss present host cited “recordsdata” he had seen to justify the ICE operations he has joined.
“They’ve obtained a rap sheet, 12, 14 totally different instances lengthy of kid predators that they’re taking off the road,” Dr. Phil mentioned. “These are the worst first that they’re taking off the streets. Who would need them again of their communities?”
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ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, who was additionally a visitor on Maher’s present Friday, discovered some widespread floor with Dr. Phil and admitted that he helps “closing the borders,” however argued the administration’s actions haven’t matched their phrases.
“While you’re going to House Depot, once you’re going to folks’s jobs, once you’ve been given authorization to enter church buildings and to enter different properties…who they’ve been focusing on has been totally different than what they initially marketed,” Smith concluded.
Maher echoed Smith’s argument, including ICE goes to locations the place individuals are “already working.”
“If you happen to can’t go to work since you’re hiding, what different recourse is it for [illegal immigrants] besides crime?” Maher requested.
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Dr. Phil has reportedly accompanied ICE two occasions – first on the bottom throughout January’s Chicago raids and throughout the Los Angeles raids in June.
