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Hollywood legend reveals Trump phoned him and accused him of 'wussing out' over 2020 stolen election claims
Playwright David Mamet revealed that President Donald Trump called him and complained that he 'wussed out' over those 2020 stolen election claims.
Mamet was the guest on this week's episode of comedian Bill Maher's Club Random podcast.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter and author - known for Glengarry Glen Ross, Wag the Dog and The Untouchables - ditched liberalism in 2008 and is a supporter of Trump.
Maher, a liberal who's taken swipes at the left for being too 'woke,' commented to Mamet that 'man, each book you get more right-wing,' and recalled how Mamet had come on his HBO show Real Time to publicize the last one.
The comedian said that at the time, he thought Mamet was 'hedging' on the so-called 'big lie,' Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
'You know, you don't know what happened to me the next morning,' Mamet said.
Mamet recalled that on Maher's show, he was 'kind of iffy on it, right?'
'Next morning, eight o'clock, the phone rings. Woman on the phone says, "Mr. Mamet, will you hold for the president?"' Mamet recalled. 'I said wait a second, is Biden calling?'
'Is Trump! During the Biden administration. He says, "David, it's Donald Trump." I say, "Oh, Mr. President, thank you for calling to what do I owe the honor?"' the author described.
'He said, "I saw you on Bill Maher yesterday, you were great." He said, "But you wussed out on the question of the stolen election,"' Mamet said. 'And then he talked to me for like 20 minutes about how the election was stolen.'
Maher interjected, 'It wasn't!'
But this time Mamet took Trump's side.
'Well, I think it was,' the playwright pushed.
Maher pointed out that 'they've adjudicated this.'
'They've looked at this. Republicans have looked at it,' Maher said. 'It was tested in court like 60 times. It was thrown out every time. Trump's own commission appointed by his own commissioners to look at the election ...They all said the same thing. It was the most fair, honest election we've ever had.'
Christopher Krebs, who served as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, had called the 2020 election 'the most secure in American history.'
In April, Trump revoked Krebs' security clearance via a presidential memorandum and directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to review Krebs' activities during his time working in government.
'I'm not talking about the votes. I'm not talking about counting the votes,' Mamet pressed.
'That the Hunter Biden laptop was suppressed, the COVID information was suppressed. Zuckerberg said himself that the White House pressured him not to bring forward the information on the laptop,' Mamet argued.
'And Rasmussen said, had that come out, there would have been a 17 point spread,' the playwright added.
The New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story on October 14, 2020, just weeks before the presidential election.
The Biden campaign had officials in the intelligence community sign a letter saying that the information in the laptop being shopped by Trump allies had marks of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Since then the Daily Mail and other outlets have authenticated the laptop.
Maher wasn't buying Mamet's explanation.
