Oliver Stone Defends Trump and Putin, Questions Vaccines and Elections with Bill Maher

The perpetually embattled filmmaker Oliver Stone doubled down on his pro-Russia sentiment in a recent appearance on Club Random, Bill Maher’s conversational podcast. Between sips of red wine and puffs of weed, Stone defended Russian president Vladimir Putin, questioned the origins of COVID-19 and the efficacy of the vaccine, expressed his thoughts that Donald Trump may have won the 2020 election, and expounded upon essentially every contrarian position he could think of. Maher, who is poorly received as of late and has slid further and further right in the past few years, eventually asked in exasperation, “Is there a conspiracy theory you don’t believe?”