Maher is not being reasonable, he is just trying to position his spin to get out ahead of the Biden story and allow himself to shape the roll out of the story to the public so he can control the narrative.
Right now Democrat’s are using the Big Lie to try to deny the details of the Biden story but they are too big and too well documented to lie away .
This should destroy their credibility but the media is enabling
Instead, Maher is admitting the obvious to salvage his credibility and to try to explain away the story as an innocent nothingburger . No harm. no foul, just time to move on
The key details are how Hunter got the position.