John Fetterman and Bill Maher agree chaos in LA and Dem reaction to riots will be 'good for Trump'

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and "Real Time" big Bill Maher agreed connected Friday that the optics of Democrats defending the anti-ICE protests successful Los Angeles volition beryllium "good for Trump" arsenic scenes of chaos from the riots proceed to spell viral connected societal media.

Maher noted that immoderate connected the near condemned Fetterman aft helium denounced the unit happening successful the streets of Los Angeles and agreed that "it doesn't bash the Democratic Party immoderate bully to defend" the convulsive protests.

Fetterman issued a beardown connection connected X Monday evening denouncing the riots successful L.A. and included a now-infamous photograph showing a rioter lasting connected a car portion waving the Mexican emblem surrounded by raging flames.

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Fetterman told Maher that Americans don't privation to spot Los Angeles "on occurrence doubly successful conscionable six months now," noting that these optics won't play good for Democrats. ((Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)(Photo by Jay L Clendenin/Getty Images))

"I agree. When they spot it successful a run ad, erstwhile they spot the feline with the Mexican emblem and the Waymo burning down him, it's going to beryllium bully for Trump," said Maher.

Fetterman concurred, noting that astir Americans don’t privation to spot Los Angeles "on occurrence doubly successful conscionable six months now."

Reflecting connected the governmental interaction of specified imagery, helium asked, "And those optics, I conscionable tally that done — similar what's the radical successful Scranton mightiness spot those kinds of images and those kinds of videos?"

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Maher past emphasized that Fetterman’s views connected escaped code and migration inactive align with halfway Democratic values, and those who are calling him retired are doing truthful due to the fact that he's not a "progressive," adding that "we don't adjacent cognize what these presumption mean" successful today's governmental climate.

Fetterman told Maher that helium doesn't consciousness that his values person changed — but alternatively the Democratic Party itself has.

The "Real Time" big said that helium sees himself arsenic an "old-school Democrat," to which Fetterman agreed.

"That's the thing," Fetterman replied. "It's similar your values — I don't deliberation person changed — I cognize excavation haven't truly changed. But I deliberation our enactment has changed and present if you really benignant of constituent retired and telephone retired a batch of these things, you know, you bash instrumentality a governmental terms for a batch of those things."

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Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this report.