Bill Maher blasts Cassie saying she CHOSE to stay with Diddy and was 'enthusiastic' about freak-offs

Daily Mail​

2 days ago

Diddy trial for 'choosing' to stay with the disgraced rap mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs and was 'enthusiastic' about the infamous freak-offs.
Maher slammed the singer for her role in Diddy's ongoing trial, and showed text messages Cassie sent Diddy at the time which proved her 'enthusiastic consent' in the freak-offs.
'We need to keep two thoughts in our head at the same time: One, Diddy is a bad dude - really bad. Like, the worst thing in rap since Hammer pants. A violent, sick f*** - I'm sorry, an alleged violent, sick f***. And we should lock him up and throw away the baby oil,' Maher began.
'And two, things have changed enough that moving forward, the rule should be, if you're being abused, you've got to leave right away.'
Maher then referred to Cassie and insinuated that her 'enthusiasm' for the freak-offs and long running relationship with Diddy only bolstered his legal defense.
'If Diddy walks free, it will be because his lawyers can point to an endless stream of texts from Cassie expressing what's often called 'enthusiastic consent' to their sex life,' Maher said.
'If you're 'MeToo-ing' someone, it's not helpful to your case if you text him, 'me too!''
The host presented text messages of Cassie's 'enthusiasm', such as one which read: 'I'm always ready to freak off.'
'It's not victim-shaming to expect women to have the agency to leave toxic relationships. Quite the contrary, to not expect that is infantilizing,' Maher declared.
'I understand why it can be difficult for women to leave an abusive relationship, but this should be society's new grand bargain,' Maher said. 'We take every allegation seriously, but don't tell me anymore about your contemporaneous account that you said to two friends ten years ago.'
'Tell the police right away. Don't wait a decade. Don't journal about it. Don't turn it into a one-woman show. And most importantly, don't keep f***ing him. Your only contemporaneous notes about what he did should be a police report.'
Maher's take is that with the MeToo movement, women have fewer reasons not to come forward about abuse and leave an abusive relationship.
'We're not in the 'no one listens to women or takes them seriously' era anymore. Operators are actually standing by to take your calls,' he said.
The Real Time host declared that there should be a 'new rule,' that 'if you're being abused, you've got to leave right way,' and applied this rule to Cassie as she testifies against Diddy.
'When women felt, for good reason, that 'OG predators' like Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein would never be held accountable, why not at least get something out of it?' he said.
'It was not illogical for an abused women to say, 'Well, if I can't get justice for my pain, can I at least get a receipt? A coupon?'' he continued, insinuating that Cassie was benefiting in her career from their relationship.
An emotional and heavily pregnant Ventura broke down on the stand as she testified against Diddy with claims that he raped her, was an out-of-control drug addict, and someone she felt she couldn't leave
Maher said that having an 'honest conversation about abuse' must include the realities of 'what people are willing to do for stardom.'
'If you want a No.1 record so bad, you'll take a No.1 in the face, some of that is on you,' he said.
'And if you're doing it for love, well, c'mon, Oprah and Dr. Phil and every podcaster in the world by now have done a million shows about 'abuse is not love' and 'abusers don't change.''
Maher finished his relationship expertise by drawing comparisons from Ike and Tina Turner's relationship, he said: 'R&B singer Ike Turner was a psycho, just like Diddy. But in an era when there was no movement to help her, Tina Turner somehow got away and she did it with 36 cents in her pocket and a mobile card.'
His slam on Cassie recieved mixed messages online, with some supporting the host while others finding it out of touch.
One comment on X said: 'He's not wrong. There is 0 doubt that Diddy is a pos scumbag & he should've gone to jail for assault & battery. But if Cassie is the star witness on this 'RICO' case, Diddy should be freed today.'
'You can look at this situation from all different directions, maybe she stayed for fame and fortune, maybe she stayed in fear. People will do anything for fame and Fortune, the industry is the devils play ground, in the worst way,' another said.
'@billmaher showing his true colors with his acceptance of the psychological warfare and terror of controlling abusive men in the industry and beyond, but especially if you have a lot of money to contribute to the @DNC.'
'Obviously He has no clue how a victim can be mentally manipulated..Abusers like Diddy do it on a grander scale..,' another said.
Another wrote: 'Cassie was groomed at a young age; then she was dragged into a culture she was drowning in with no sign of getting out by a complete monster who terrified everyone around him. Let's make @billmaher someone's b*** and see how he likes it, because that's what Cassie was to Diddy.'
Maher's brutal analysis comes only days after Cassie welcomed her third child with her husband Alex Fine not long after testifying at Diddy's trial.
The Me & U singer welcomed her baby boy on Tuesday at a hospital in New York City, according to TMZ, citing sources with direct knowledge.
Insiders say the child arrived slightly ahead of schedule, but Cassie and her newborn are healthy and well.
Ventura was around eight months pregnant when she began her horrifying testimony in the trial on May 12.
She delivered graphic testimonies alleging that the music mogul physically and psychologically abused her over more than a decade from 2007-2018.
She detailed the regular beatings she allegedly experienced, the rapper's use of blackmail and scare tactics to coerce and manipulate, depraved sex acts she claims she was forced to participate in - and the medical toll she suffered as a result.
Ventura concluded testifying on May 16, just 11 days before she went into labor.
Controversy first publicly grew around Diddy in late 2023, when he quickly settled a sex abuse case Ventura filed against him for a rumored $30million.
Multiple properties across the country he owned were raided in March of 2024 and he was arrested six months later in September.
In May 2024 Combs' downfall was hastened by the release of a devastating video of him beating Ventura in the corridor of a hotel in Los Angeles in 2016.
The video, which was first broadcast by CNN last May, was played in full to the trial before Ventura, a male escort and others gave their testimonies.
He has remained incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting his trial after he was refused bail on multiple occasions.
He faces life in prison on five federal charges: racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking and two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution.
Combs has plead not guilty to all the charges. His defense team has said the alleged victims are ex-girlfriends who willingly participated in threesomes.
In the latest update, Diddy's lawyers asked the judge on Wednesday for a mistrial after arguing the prosecution made an unacceptable suggestion in front of the jury.
The defense said it was 'outrageous' when prosecutors appeared to suggest the mogul had destroyed fingerprints taken from Kid Cudi's house after the January, 2012 bombing of his car.
Prosecutors had asked LAFD official Lance Jimenez about the fingerprints, and he said the evidence was destroyed in August 2012.
Jimenez said 'somebody within LAPD' authorized the destruction of the evidence.
This is when Diddy's team objected.
'They know what they were doing,' the defense said of prosecutors.
'They were suggesting that someone in this courtroom has something to do with improper and suspicious destruction of these fingerprint cards and that's outrageous.'
The attorneys added: 'The only proper remedy to cure the outrageous prejudice is a mistrial.'
However, the defense's motion for a mistrial was denied.