Comedian Bill Maher ate a little crow during a recent episode of his “Club Random” podcast, conceding that he’d been firmly on the wrong side with a prediction he’d made earlier in President Donald Trump’s current term.

Maher, who hosted YouTuber Bryan Tyler Cohen for Monday’s episode, reminded his audience that he’d predicted that Trump’s tariff plan would result in economic disaster — probably before the Fourth of July had come and gone — but that had not happened.

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Cohen suggested that for commentators on the Left, the “onus” was on them to “filter” through what President Donald Trump said in order to stay on top of the issues that were really important.

“First of all, be honest. Don’t just be partisan,” Maher offered his advice on that front. “I will always call it as I see it, no matter what it is, and I don’t care who likes it or doesn’t. That’s my bond with the audience. It’s worked for me pretty well.”

Maher then fell on his own sword a bit, admitting to getting things wrong when he — along with many others —predicted that Trump’s threatened tariffs would tank the economy.

“I remember I, along with probably most people, were saying at the beginning, oh, you know, by the Fourth of July — somebody had a thing out about how the economy was gonna be tanked by then. And I was kinda like, ‘Well, that seems right to me,’ but that didn’t happen,” he explained. “Now, it could happen tomorrow. I’m just saying, that’s reality.”

Maher went on to argue that Democrats were missing the point if they still believed that simply declaring their opposition to Trump amounted to a political strategy.

“‘I just hate Donald Trump.’ … That’s boring and doesn’t get us anywhere and leads you to dishonesty,” Maher said. “Because the truth is, I don’t know what his strategy is. But look, the stock market is at record highs. I don’t see a country in a depression at all. I see people out there just living their lives, and I would have thought — and I gotta own it — that these tariffs were going to f***ing sink this economy by this time, and they didn’t.”

“So, you know, how do we deal with that fact? Because that’s the fact,” he went on, arguing that Democrats needed to base their strategy on reality rather than just retreating to their partisan corners.

During the same episode, Maher took a similar tone when he revealed the biggest mistake he thought Democrats were making.

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🚨NEW: Bill Maher *GOES OFF* on “the left” over its most idiotic mistake🚨

“The stupidest thing the left does — and this dinner is a perfect example of it — is having this attitude toward the right that: ‘We won’t even break bread with you. We are so far above you that we won’t… pic.twitter.com/8DZKOdSDZ0

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“The stupidest thing the Left does — and this dinner is a perfect example of it — is having this attitude toward the Right that: ‘We won’t even break bread with you. We are so far above you that we won’t even sit down at the same table with you!'” Maher complained. “That is their attitude — and that makes me sick too! I’m glad I break bread!”

“Good luck. See how far that gets you,” he quipped.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that a high profile alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia Giuffre, was among the staff members that Epstein poached from his Mar-a-Lago resort.

The president discussed the convicted sex offender, who died in a Manhattan prison from apparent suicide in 2019, as he spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way back from Scotland on Tuesday. He shared that he and Epstein, who were formerly friends, fell out over Epstein’s focus on Trump’s employees.

“People were taken out of the spa, hired by him. In other words, gone,” Trump told reporters. “When I heard about it, I told him, I said, listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa … and he was fine. And not too long after, he did it again. And I said, outta here.”

“I have a great spa,” the president added. “One of the best spas in the world at Mar-a-Lago.”

Trump had said on Monday that he ended his relationship with Epstein after Epstein “stole people who worked” for him. Asked by a reporter if one of those individuals who Epstein “stole” was Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, Trump responded: “I think so. I think that was one of the people.”

“He stole her,” added Trump, noting, “And by the way, she had no complaints about us whatsoever.”

Trump’s comments come after legacy outlets broke the news that during a May briefing on the Epstein case, Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump that his name, and the names of other high-profile figures, came up in her examination of the Epstein documents that are not public.

It was already publicly reported that Trump’s name appears in the Epstein documents, given that public files include his name and hundreds of others. The two men were openly friendly before they fell out (reportedly because Trump found Epstein to be a “creep”) and Epstein was no longer welcome at Mar-A-Lago, administration officials previously shared with The Daily Wire.

Asked by reporters whether he stopped being friends with Epstein because he was a creep or because he was stealing employees, Trump responded: “Well maybe they’re the same thing, sort of a little bit of the same thing. He took people that worked for me and I told him don’t do it anymore, and he did it, so I said stay the hell out of here.”

Donald Trump and his then-girlfriend, former model Melania Knauss, financier Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

“As part of our routine briefing, we made the president aware of the findings,” Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, shared in a joint statement. “Nothing in the files warranted further investigation or prosecution.”

The Justice Department posted a July 7 memo declaring that after an “exhaustive review” of the Epstein files, it had found no incriminating “client list” or “credible evidence” that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals. “No further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted,” the DOJ said, sparking massive backlash from both the Left and the Right.

Amid ongoing criticism and calls for more transparency, Blanche revealed that he would interview Epstein’s infamous cohort Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20 year sentence for sex trafficking.

“If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say,” Blanche said.

Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.