Hunter Biden on Monday blamed former President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last year at least partially on his undisclosed use of the sleep drug Ambien.
He made the comments during a three-hour interview on Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan, a YouTube series with over 3 million subscribers known for its political commentary. During the wide-ranging conversation, Hunter Biden spoke about his struggle with addiction, provided insight on the former president’s mental state and delivered an angry tirade against a number of Democratic Party operatives he felt had wronged his father in the waning days of his 2024 campaign.
“I know exactly what happened in that debate,” Biden told Callaghan. “He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as shit. You give him Ambien to be able to sleep. He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he’s a deer in headlights, and it feeds into every story.”