“I’ve Seen the Crack Pipe” - Bill Maher GRILLS Hunter Biden on Addiction, Politics and Family artwork

“I’ve Seen the Crack Pipe” - Bill Maher GRILLS Hunter Biden on Addiction, Politics and Family

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August 26, 2026

Bill Maher sits down with Hunter Biden for a candid and revealing conversation, pressing him on his personal struggles, addiction, grief, politics, and whether he would ever consider running for president.
Speakers: Patrick Bet-David, Bill Maher, Hunter Biden, null, Lindy

Topics: Business

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:00)
Hunter Biden on Bill Maher, okay?
And believe it or not, I was actually very impressed with Bill Maher, because Bill Maher asked the questions that everybody else was thinking about, that maybe others like Tucker didn't ask Hunter for whatever reason. And you know, everybody that does certain interviews, there is a motive that people have in an agenda, that's their show, they can talk about whatever they want, no judgment. But I like that Bill pushes, no matter what, if you're left, right or center, he doesn't care who you are, he'll call you out, right? And he's gotten to this phase a lot more lately. So here's a couple clips, I want to show a couple of the clips that we have. Here's one of them, go forward.

**Bill Maher** (0:35)
I think a reasonable person who's not filled with hate would say, you both took advantage of some of your privileges by being the son of a president and vice president, and you also were a target in a way that a normal person would not admit. Is that fair?

**Hunter Biden** (0:49)
There's a part of that that is fair. One of the things that people I think don't understand is that when my dad was president, I didn't do any business, I sold paintings. And I sold paintings to people that then had to testify before Congress under oath. I made an average of $225,000 a year.

**Bill Maher** (1:04)
Would you have been working for an energy company at a Ukraine? Was that really the thing you studied in school? No, you're right.

**Hunter Biden** (1:12)
I went to Yale Law School.

**null** (1:13)
You got that job because you just admitted it. Yeah, 100%.

**Hunter Biden** (1:16)
As I've said in a million interviews.

**null** (1:18)
Good for Bill Maher.

**Hunter Biden** (1:19)
You know, I'm incredibly privileged. I mean, beyond anyone's wildest imagination, not only because of who my dad was, but because of the father that he was.
And so a lot of privilege comes from that. And I don't deny that anyway.

**Bill Maher** (1:36)
And also a target on your back.

**Hunter Biden** (1:37)
Yeah, by the way, and also a target on your back.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:41)
Okay, so how do you feel about that? How do you feel about that exchange? I'll come to you first, Lindy. You know Hunter.

**Lindy** (1:46)
I do. And it makes me very frustrated. I just, he's not being held accountable sufficiently. I mean, Bill Maher is doing a great job right here. But this is a guy who lived on the Biden name for decades and used his kid's college tuition money to pay for prostitutes and hookers, basically. His kid's college. His kid's college tuition to pay for his own drug money and to pay for his hookers.
This is a guy whose privates were broadcasts around the world, and there's no shame. And I used to host events at which he would go and glad hand billionaires and business titans, not for the sake of the United States, but for himself. He went to all of these donor events in order to ingratiate himself, looking for exit opportunities. And that is why he had forced his senile and cognitive declining father, who had no business running for president. He forced him to run for the presidency, run for reelection. This guy has so much responsibility and culpability in his hands, and I wish more people were like Bill Maher.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:52)
Okay, so let's just say if he sits down with you, what three questions do you ask him? You sitting with Hunter, what do you ask him?

**Lindy** (2:58)
When are you going to apologize for the fact that you hoisted a man who very likely, 99% had terminal prostate cancer? You forced this man to run for reelection. How dare you? This is not only a dereliction of duty to our country, but to your own family. You claim to love your father. Is this something that you would do to a man that you love? We just talked about Fat Joe raising a child with Down syndrome. Now we're talking about an 82-year-old man who is dying of cancer. Had he, God forbid, had he won the presidency, he would have been dying in the Oval Office right now. The cancer is now spreading across his body. Can you imagine, they lie to the world, telling us that he was sharpest attack, running circles around everybody. In fact, I was on a phone call with General Malley Dillon, the chairman of the Biden campaign, with a small, slight group of donors. She had the gumption to look us in the eye and say, Biden is healthier than all of you.

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