Last week we told you that Bill Maher mentioned that the Democrat field of 2020 candidates might be too “crazy” to win the election next year but hoped that an economic recession would do the trick in order to help the Dems defeat Trump. Maher has doubled down big time on his hope to see Trump voted out of office, even if it means people losing their jobs to do so, and NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent gave him an assist:

Anthony @Scaramucci to @BillMaher: “You don’t really want a recession.” Maher: “I do. We have survived many recessions. We can’t survive another Donald Trump term.” NBC’s @RichardEngel: “Short term pain…better than long term destruction of the Constitution.” #RealTime pic.twitter.com/zJVRczTPJe — Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) August 10, 2019

“We can’t survive another Donald Trump term.” And by “we” Maher must be talking about the anti-Trump Resistance, including NBC News’ Richard Engel.

.@NBCNews's chief foreign correspondent siding with Bill Maher in wanting the U.S. economy to suffer just so they can defeat Donald Trump in 2020 https://t.co/HruSbzpw5W — NewsBusters (@newsbusters) August 10, 2019

Because they care about the middle class so much, or something.

It's hard to tell people you're not the enemy of the people when you're rooting for them to lose their jobs, lose money, and thus having their lives destroyed https://t.co/9ZQqhzXIQX — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 10, 2019

You can just feel the “journalism”!