HBO's "Real Time" host Bill Maher acknowledged there is a deep state he characterized as "the bureaucratic class that justifies its existence by making up new rules" made up of "petty tyrants" who ignore the will of the American people.

Near the end of his Friday show, Maher used a straw man fallacy to diminish conservative's concerns of the weaponized intelligence agencies, instead saying the real deep state is comprised of legions of bureaucrats within the federal government.