Andy Beshear has sued the President 30 times.
Posted by Real Time with Bill Maher, Checked
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Real Time with Bill MaherOct 24, 2026
The sources document several lawsuits Beshear joined against the Trump administration (funding freeze, public health grants, AmeriCorps, tariffs, Medicaid work rules, TANF data), but none gives a count, so the figure of 30 is neither confirmed nor contradicted. The extraction is faithful: the post says "this President" meaning Trump, and "30 times" is the speaker's own figure.
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… Yeah, what's your message to the people who say I shouldn't talk? If you get an opportunity to talk to any president, obviously you do it. And when I disagree with this President thank you and while I disagree with this President on a lot of things, I've actually sued this President 30 times from a state he won by 30 points. And some people have said, "Well, aren't you worried about your approval rating?" And my response is, What's an approval rating worth if you don't use it for something? …
Real Time with Bill Maher · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. Multiple sources document Beshear joining lawsuits against the Trump administration in 2025 and 2026, including the federal funding freeze (Feb 2025), public health grants (Apr 2025), AmeriCorps (May 2025), tariffs (Mar 2026), Medicaid work requirements (Jun 2026), and TANF data (Aug 2026).[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Context. No source tallies Beshear's lawsuits against Trump or states a total near 30, so the central numeric claim is not checkable against these sources.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Context. The claimant's own statement in the post is not evidence for the count and cannot corroborate it.
Sources
6 sources: 6 not rated
- 1Kentucky Gov. Beshear joins lawsuit against Trump's funding freezelpm.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 2Andy Beshear - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 3KY's Beshear joins lawsuit against Trump over new tariffskentucky.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Beshear joins lawsuit to block Trump's latest round of illegal tariffsforwardky.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5PA sues Trump admin over Medicaid work-requirement rulespotlightpa.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Beshear joins lawsuit to block federal access to state welfare datacourier-journal.com · not rated · cited for: context
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