On Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” one of the biggest topics of the night was, of course, the end of the Trump administration and the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency. Or, as Maher aptly described it during his opening monologue, the “semi-peaceful transfer of power.”
As you know, the reason that transfer of power was only “semi-peaceful” is because, on Jan. 6, Donald Trump incited a violent mob of his supporters to storm the Capitol in an attempt to undo the 2020 election. That mob, as we’ve since learned, reportedly intended to harm (and in some cases, murder) members of Congress and even then-Vice President Mike Pence as part of their effort to help Trump subvert and overthrow American democracy.