“Don’t make me be, and I told you so again. You know, I was a young man of fifty-nine when I started using the term slow-moving coup, and it pains me to have to report it still moving,” Maher said, and dove into the revelations in the recently-released Eastman memo “which was basically a blueprint prepared for Trump and how he could steal the election after he lost it in November 2020.”

He then took the audience step-by-step through a scenario in which Republicans succeed in sending alternate slates of electors to defy the will of voters, forcing Vice President Kamala Harris to decide whether to certify such results, and throwing the country into chaos on the next Inauguration Day.

“The Ding Dongs, who sacked the Capitol last year? That was like when Al Qaeda tried to take down the World Trade Center the first time with a van. It was a joke. But the next time they came back with planes,” Maher said, adding “I hope I scared the shit out of you!”