Bill Maher tore into Joe Biden on his HBO show, saying his son Hunter's Ukrainian ties probably lost him the Democratic presidential nomination and wondering how the media would react if it were President Trump's son.

"The more I read about this — you know, I don’t think he was doing something terrible in Ukraine, but it’s just so — why can’t politicians tell their f--king kids, 'Get a job? Get a goddamn job,'" Maher said Friday about Hunter Biden being on the board of a company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch while his father was vice president. "It just looks bad, and the Republicans are geniuses at muddying the water. It’s all gonna be about, ‘You did this in Ukraine? Well, Joe Biden did this.'"

Maher argued that the appearance of corruption by Biden could be used by Republicans to take down his nomination. The host went on to compare Hunter Biden to Donald Trump Jr.

"It does sound like something Don Jr. would do, and and if Don Jr. did it, it would be all Rachel Maddow was talking about," Maher said.

The comments follow House Democrats opening up an impeachment inquiry against President Trump on Tuesday. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi backed the measure after a whistleblower alleged that Trump had tried to muscle dirt on Biden through the Ukrainian president.

The Trump administration and Republicans argue Biden should be probed for corruption because he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if Ukraine did not fire its top prosecutor, who was investigating the company that was paying his son, while he was still vice president.

