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joked about President Joe Biden, several Republicans expected to run for president in 2024, and even made blistering comments about his former boss, former President Donald Trump.Pence then trained his sights on his fellow Hoosier, quipping that if Biden doesn’t run for re-election, there’s “Pete Buttigieg, who’s an old friend of mine.”Buttigieg, who previously served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, when Pence was governor of the state, has previously attacked Pence’s alleged homophobia and his support for a since-amended “religious freedom” law that critics said, in its original version, would have allowed blatant discrimination against LGBTQ people.“When Pete’s two children were born,” Pence continued, “he took two months’ maternity leave, where upon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, airplanes nearly collided in midair.“I mean, Pete Buttigieg is the only person in human history to have a child and all the rest of us get postpartum depression.”Buttigieg took two months of paternity leave shortly after adopting twins with his husband, Chasten, in September 2021, prompting right-wing pundits to criticize him for doing so.The White House did not take kindly to the joke, with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre taking aim at Pence in a statement.“The former vice president’s homophobic joke about Secretary Buttigieg was offensive and inappropriate, all the more so because he treated women suffering from postpartum depression as a punchline,” Jean-Pierre said.

It’s that time of year – schools aren’t open, people are on vacation, the weather is kind of humid and downright terrible in some locations. It’s almost the end of the so-called “dog days of summer,” a sleepy moment on the calendar, which is why Bill Maher can be forgiven for a somewhat meandering Real Time last night.

Amber Heard has reportedly fired her PR team due to "bad headlines" covering her court battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp. In recent weeks, Hollywood actor Johnny, 58, has been taking to the stand in a Virginia courtroom to testify in his civil defamation case against his former wife, whom he acrimoniously split from in 2016 after only a year of marriage.

Johnny Depp.The Aquaman actress, 36, is said to have employed a new PR team as she prepares to take to the stand this week in the $100 defamation trial.The actress is said to have made the decision after becoming "frustrated by bad headlines" during the trial which was brought by her ex-husband.So far only Depp has taken the stand.Heard was being represented by Precision Strategies, which she has reportedly now ditched in favour of consulting firm Shane Communications.An unnamed source claimed to the New York Post that the actress "doesn't like bad headlines".Another unnamed source claimed to the publication that Heard was "frustrated with her story not being told effectively."The trial, which started on April 11, is set to last another three weeks.So far only Depp has taken the stand over the course of four days, during which he claimed he was the victim of domestic abuse.The Fantastic Beasts actor is suing Heard for $50 million, claiming that she ruined his career following a 2018 Washington Post article where she described herself as a "'public figure representing domestic abuse", without naming her ex-spouse.Heard is countersuing Depp for $100 million and is set to take to the stand this week.Senior communications director for Pete Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign Lis Smith branded the move by Heard to rehire a new PR team "crazy".She said: "It's crazy to change teams in the middle of a trial like this because you don't like the headlines."After years of narrative building, you can't change the public's opinion in the three weeks when someone is suing you in a case," she added to the publication.The trial has so far seen explosive claims from Depp, claiming that his ex-wife "severed his finger" and "defecated