{"id":260402,"date":"2026-08-22T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260402\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:51:09","slug":"bill-maher-checks-hunter-biden-maher-over-iran-war-nobody-asked-for-excuse-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260402\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher checks Hunter Biden Maher over Iran war &#8216;nobody asked for&#8217;: &#8216;Excuse me!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden was brought back to reality during an appearance on \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher,\u201d being stopped\u00a0mid-rant by the host to remind him that his own father and \u201cevery Democrat\u201d swore Iran could never have a nuclear weapon<\/p>\n<p>The former first son outlandishly claimed Friday night that President Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner \u201cis our unelected, unappointed emissary to the Middle East for war that nobody asked for. It\u2019s absurd!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher pushed back, saying \u201cnot nobody,\u201d to which Biden responded, \u201cOh, that\u2019s true. Bibi Netanyahu asked for it,\u201d referencing the Israeli prime minister.  <\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden appeared on \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher\u201d and blasted Jared Kushner for acting as an emissary on a war \u201cnobody asked for.\u201d Real Time with Bill Maher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour father. Excuse me! every Democrat said Iran can\u2019t have nuclear weapons,\u201d Maher, who said last week replied.<\/p>\n<p>Trump last week warned that he was planning to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/19\/us-news\/trump-announces-economic-d-day-against-iran-most-crushing-economic-operation-ever-taken\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">impose \u201ceconomic D-Day\u201d <\/a>on the Islamic Republic, as the warring countries continue to clash over control of the Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale,\u201d Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117124650907675461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me. TRAGICALLY, for them, they have failed to take it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Talk show host Bill Maher during a tense exchange with Hunter Biden brought up President Biden\u2019s repeated insistence that Iran not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon. WWD via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The US continues to blockade the Strait of Hormuz after a war with Iran that began in February. U.S. Central Command Public Affairs<\/p>\n<p>The president likened the operation to \u201can ECONOMIC D-DAY\u201d that will require \u201cour Allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate, and defeat, the Iran threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That declaration comes after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/18\/world-news\/iran-threatens-military-attacks-while-us-rules-out-extending-temporary-cease-fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 60-day period for negotiations<\/a>\u00a0to end the war \u2013 established under an interim peace deal signed in June \u2013 expired Monday without a breakthrough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/17\/world-news\/jared-kushner-hamas-said-all-the-right-things-on-board-of-peace-gaza-plan-but-idf-wont-leave-until-terror-group-disarms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kushner<\/a> and US envoy Steve Witkoff have been heavily involved in those talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden was brought back to reality during an appearance on \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher,\u201d being stopped\u00a0mid-rant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[54586,68082,34,81,933],"class_list":["post-260402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-bill-maher","tag-hunter-biden","tag-iran","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117140198688101574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}