Dr. Phil Rips Bill Maher Over ICE Raid Criticism: “Now That’s Bullsh*t” And “If You Don’t Like The Law, Change It”
On Friday’s episode of “Real Time” on HBO, Dr. Phil took offense when host Bill Maher accused him of being a party to separating families when he goes on ICE raids.
BILL MAHER: I feel like Trump is doing, or he’s doubling down on unpopular. People are not going to like this. They don’t like — why are you going on these ICE raids? I don’t understand that. You’re a guy who we know for so many years who has been working to put families together, to bring families who are apart and heal them. And now you’re going on raids with people who are literally separating families. Explain that to me. DR. PHIL MCGRAW: Well, now that’s bullsh*t. MAHER: That’s not bullsh*t. DR. PHIL: Now you’re — oh, no, that is — MAHER: They’re not separating families? DR. PHIL: No. Well, look. If you arrest somebody that’s a citizen that has committed a crime or is DUI with a child in the backseat, do you think they don’t separate that family right then, right there? But that’s not what’s going on. Of course they do. Of course they do. But what you’re talking about… I was hearing you in your monologue saying you’ve got these ICE agents with masks on. Yes. Well, let me tell you why they have their mask on. Because we actually have legislators who passed laws about immigration and funded those laws to be executed. They actually pay these agents to go out and do this. And now they’re doxing them. They’re putting their names, their pictures, their addresses of their families on the internet. They’re putting them on telephone poles. So of course they’re wearing masks so they don’t get outed, so people can do violence against their families. The negative actions against ICE agents are up 1,000% in the last several months. 130% violence against them. And why them? They didn’t make the laws. They didn’t make that law. What are you expecting to do? Just not do their job? If you don’t like the law, change it. I don’t like that law at all. Change the law. MAHER: If you don’t like it, why are you going? DR. PHIL: Because that is the law. MAHER: No, no, no. I’m just asking. I’m not trying to — DR. PHIL: What I’m going on, I’ve looked at these files — MAHER: But I don’t like hunting. I don’t go out with hunters. DR. PHIL: But they’ve got 12 — No, no. Wait a minute. No, wait a minute. The ICEs I’ve been on, I’ve seen the files. They’ve got a rap sheet 12, 14 different cases long of child predators that they’re taking off the street. These are the worst first that they’re taking off the streets. Who would want them back in their communities? MAHER: We all agree with that. STEPHEN A. SMITH: Dr. Phil, that was beautiful. DR. PHIL: Hold on. Answer the question. Who wants those people back in there? MAHER: No one. DR. PHIL: These are violent criminals. MAHER: I keep answering your questions and you keep saying I’m not answering your questions. Nobody. Nobody wants that. We all didn’t want violent criminals and gangs, but that pivoted to going to Home Depot. You know, when Trump came down the first time from the escalator, he said, you know, the rapists and the criminals and some, I assume, are good people. The ones standing in front of Home Depot just looking for an honest day’s work, for an honest day’s pay, those are the good people, I assume.
