Conservative commentator Dave Rubin fact-checked Bill Maher and Democratic strategist James Carville after they repeated the false claim that Trump referred to Nazis as “very fine people” after the Charlottesville incident in 2017.
Maher — who has predicted that Trump will be re-elected in 2024 — rattled off a number of Trump’s campaign promises for the current cycle. “I’m getting ready for the next Trump term already. He says under his administration, his next one, schools will teach students to love their country not to hate their country like they’re taught now. I’ve got to say, this one doesn’t bother me so much,” Maher said.
The longtime HBO host cited the ongoing protests against Israel and increase of vitriol geared towards Jewish Americans when arguing that the nation’s schools are failing. “They’re with whatever TikTok tells them to be for, basically,” Rubin said.
At that point, Carville repeated the lie that Trump referred to Nazis and white supremacists as “very fine people” after the chaos in Charlottesville. “What were the… were there good people on both sides of Charlottesville? I don’t know. Did I hear that? Or did I make that up? That Trump said there are good people on