Bill Maher joked that “we’ve all been” imagining Donald Trump would be raped if he were sent to prison for his 34 felony convictions.
The comedian said it was a “baffling paradox” that rape jokes were “completely unacceptable and unthinkable” unless they were about prison.
Maher said these types of pranks would be made more frequently since the former president’s convictions for falsifying business records last Thursday.
‘With all the talk now about Trump possibly going to jail, we’ve all been doing it. I mean, come on, it’s Donald Trump!’ he joked on his HBO show.
“If we get the chance, it’s natural to want to imagine him getting fucked in the ass.”
Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies for falsifying business records in the “hush money” trial and faces possible prison time, although that is unlikely.
Trump is unlikely to be jailed when he is sentenced on July 11 after the “hush money” trial, despite the number of serious crimes, as it is his first time committing a non-violent crime.
But Maher’s bizarre joke spawned a serious segment about Americans’ attitudes toward criminal punishment and the country’s prison system in general.
“I’m just saying maybe we shouldn’t (joke about prison rape),” he continued.
‘If not for him, then for the almost two million people behind bars at any given time in this country. That’s more people than in 12 states. They should have their own two senators.
Maher noted that the United States had a higher incarceration rate than Russia, China or “almost any of the other evildoing countries” that worried Americans.
“But for some reason, Americans just accept that not only do we put a lot more people in prison, but if you’re a criminal of any kind, what happens?” Yes, sodomy is the appropriate punishment,’ she said disdainfully.
Maher explained that many prisons were so overcrowded that inmates had to fight for bathrooms and showers and even sleep on the floor, or were locked in solitary confinement.
Bill Maher joked that “we’ve all been” imagining Donald Trump being raped if he is sent to prison.
The United States also has four of the world’s 25 most dangerous prisons: Florence Supermax in Colorado, Attica near Buffalo, San Quentin north of San Francisco and the New Mexico State Penitentiary.
A fifth prison, FCI Dublin, near Oakland, was also being closed because the guard’s ‘rape club’, where sexual abuse between staff and inmates was rampant, was too ingrained in its work culture to reform, he said.
‘What kind of society is okay with all this? “We call them ‘correctional facilities,’ but that’s like calling the NFL a brain development program,” she said.
‘I’m not saying it’s not okay to lock people up, of course it is, but it’s not okay to deliberately violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
“Fake tough guys think that if prison is bad enough, it will incentivize people to stay out of trouble after they get out, but they’re wrong: it actually does the opposite.”
Inside a yard at Rikers Island, the New York City prison where Trump would likely be sent if he were jailed.
Maher pointed to the country’s high recidivism rates of 43 percent in the first year after release and 82 percent within a decade as evidence.
He described prison as “LinkedIn for criminals” and since nearly all inmates are eventually released, Americans needed to think about “who we really want to return to society.”
“It’s a taxpayer-funded criminal mentoring program,” he said.
‘Some hapless broke guy goes into selling drugs or paying a bad check and a few years later turns out to be a sexual predator with “white power” written all over his neck.
“We all accept that this is how prison works: you go in bad and you come out worse… but it doesn’t have to be that way, we could change.”
Maher pointed to countries like Norway, which offers prisoners comfortable cells and teaches them trades, and has “guards who are not maniacs who failed the police psychological exam,” and are rewarded with only a 20 percent recidivism rate. hundred.
A sentence of less than a year would put Trump in Rikers; any longer sentence would send him to a New York state facility.
Maher blamed the use of private prisons in the United States for much of the recidivism problem.
“Corporations don’t run prisons to improve society, they run them to make money,” he said.
“The more prisoners, the more profits… they don’t want to be rehabilitated, they want the clients to come back.”
Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records to cover up “hush money” payments to porn star Stormy Daniels over her extramarital affair to prevent the news from derailing his election campaign.
His convictions could be in doubt after a Facebook post claimed jurors were discussing plans to find him guilty before returning their verdict.
Judge Juan Merchán sparked speculation about a possible mistrial when he sent a letter to prosecutors and defense attorneys about the publication.
‘My cousin is a member of the jury and he says Trump will be convicted (heart emoji) Thank you friends for all your work!!!!’ he read.