Bill Maher Delivers Final Insult to Kellyanne Conway on ‘Real Time’

On the evening of Jan. 7, a full day after an army of Trump fanatics—at the president’s urging—stormed the U.S. Capitol on a mission to overthrow the government, menacing congresspeople and killing a police officer in the process, Kellyanne Conway issued a rambling statement on Twitter.

In it, one of Trump’s most loyal and semi-trusted advisers condemned the events as “outrageous and inexcusable,” followed by the comical lie that her former boss had “denounced the violence, acknowledged the certified election results and committed to a ‘peaceful transfer of power’ to the Biden-Harris Administration.”

The wildly false claim was met with a near-universal raised eyebrow, including by Kellyanne’s own teenage daughter, who said to her mother (via TikTok), “How do you feel about your army becoming rioters?”

Well, Kellyanne—who once invented a terrorist attack in the “Bowling Green Massacre”—visited Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night for its 19^th season premiere. Kellyanne and Maher have a history of chumminess dating back to his ABC show Politically Incorrect, and, perhaps because she can no longer be of any use, the comedian lobbed a few tough questions in the direction of the professional obfuscator and lie-teller (in between smiles and yuk-yuks, of course, as is his wont).

After joking about her inauguration attire, Kellyanne confessed that she’d tried to send a message to Trump on Jan. 6, as his followers (again, at his incitement) were storming the U.S. Capitol while he did absolutely nothing.

“I wish the president had spoken with the people earlier to get them the hell out of there,” offered Conway, adding, “I did get through to him. I’d said to the person standing next to them, ‘Please add my name to the chorus of people just saying, you have to tell them to get out. I don’t know what they’re doing, why they’re there, but tell them to get out.”

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Then Maher countered: “You must admit that the reason why they were there is cause he never conceded the election.”

“Well, I did a long time ago,” replied Conway, rather hollowly. “I think the real disappointment for people like me is that the last two months, let’s just say from November 6 to January 6, weren’t spent mostly talking about the accomplishments, reviewing the accomplishments. He built the greatest economy we had.”