Bill Maher Gets In Heated Debate With Matt Gaetz [Video]

Bill Maher and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) got into it over President Donald Trump and Republicans on the subject of elections and the effort to overturn the 2020 election result in a podcast interview released on Sunday.

During the latest episode of Maher’s Club Random, former Florida Rep. and ex-Trump administration nominee Gaetz joined the comic and pundit for a long conversation, during which they discussed Trump’s inauguration, peaceful transfers of power, and the rather less than peaceful 2020 handover to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Maher said that there’s a difference between Democrats calling Trump an “illegitimate president” and the Republican 2020 efforts to overturn the results of the election, including the January 6th attempt not to certify the result and the concurrent rioting and violence.

The conversation became heated when Gaetz tried to push back on Maher claiming hypocrisy by Republicans who now object to Democrats referring to Trump as “not a …