Bill Maher Slams Donald Trump For Blaming Charlotte Protests On Drugs

Bill Mahertore into Donald Trumpfor suggesting that drugs are a very big factor in the Charlotte protestson Friday.The Real Time with Bill Maher host compared the GOP presidential candidates asinine reaction to the demonstrations, which erupted in the North Carolina city following the fatal police shooting of 43-year-old black manKeith Lamont Scott on Tuesday, to those of a 90-year-old aunt.Watch the clip here:Everybody loves autumn. In #Charlotte, the police are using tear gas with just a hint of pumpkin spice. #Nascar #HallOfFame #RealTime pic.twitter.com/SmLEMb3TWS Bill Maher (@billmaher) September 24, 2016 Of course Donald Trump is making the situation better, as he always does, Maher said, sarcastically.He (Trump) actually said this, if you are not aware, drugs are a very big factor.Hes like your 90-year-old aunt, theyre all taking something, the comedian added. Yeah, theyre taking something alrightbullets.Trump connected the protests to narcotics, seemingly without any evidence to support his assertion, during a rally in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. Drugs are a very, very big factor in what youre watching on television at night, he told the crowd.But Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts later told CNN it was presumptuous of him to have done so without having thorough conversations with some of the folks who are here on the ground and are really aware of whats going on and what the reasoning is.Check out Mahers monologue in the clip above.Editors note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims1.6 billion members of an entire religionfrom entering the U.S.type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related Coverage + articlesList=576e24bfe4b0dbb1bbbab7b0,57930c63e4b0d3568f836836,5789d52ee4b08608d334bf0d -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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