Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) told Bill Maher that the ongoing attacks on federal agents in Los Angeles and other blue cities will backfire on the Democratic Party and help President Donald Trump.
Fetterman had been receiving backlash after he condemned last week’s unrest in Los Angeles.
The riots resulted in several injuries to ICE agents and L.A. law enforcement officers, who were hit by rocks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks.
The chaos prompted President Trump to deploy National Guard personnel and U.S. Marines to restore some semblance of order.
“I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that,” the senator wrote in an X post this past Monday.
“This is anarchy and true chaos,” Fetterman continued.
“My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.”
Maher predicted that the instantly infamous photo of a rioter waving a Mexican flag on a burned car will soon come back to haunt the Democratic Party.
“When they see it in a campaign ad, when they see the guy with the Mexican flag and the Waymo burning behind him, it’s going to be good for Trump,” he said.
Fetterman agreed, adding that Americans do not want to see Los Angeles “on fire twice in just six months now.”
He continued:
“And those optics, I just run that through — like what’s the people in Scranton might see those kinds of images and those kinds of videos?”
Maher later noted that he and the senator have received flak from the left for meeting with President Trump in recent weeks.
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“They also seem to go after you because you will talk to the other side. You talked to Trump, we all know that’s bad,” Maher, who had dinner with the president, joked.
“We’re one of the few people that will actually have dinner with Trump,” Fetterman followed up.
Maher then asked about Fetterman’s dinner with former White House chief advisor Steve Bannon.
“I hate to use fake news, but I was just hanging out talking with the other side,” Fetterman said of the meeting.
“Now people think I’m going to turn into MAGA, and I’m going to go this other way. My values haven’t changed. Our parties’ values have changed. I’m not going to change my party.”
However, Fetterman said he will not be voting for the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill,” which more than triples funding for border security.
“The big beautiful bill, I’m going to vote that down,” Fetterman said.
“I’m never going to be part of the 40 trillion club.”
“It’s incredibly dangerous. If they pass the BBB, that will change our nation. That will truly impact millions and millions of people,” Fetterman said.
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