Hunter Biden Says Dad Joe Was On Ambien During Disastrous 2024 Debate With Trump

In a newly released interview on Monday, Hunter Biden alleged that his father’s widely criticized showing during last year’s debate with Donald Trump was influenced in part by the use of the sleep aid Ambien — though there is no official documentation confirming the elder Biden was ever prescribed the medication.

“I know exactly what happened in that debate,” Hunter, 55, told YouTuber Andrew Callaghan in the video, which came out on the anniversary of President Biden ending his re-election campaign prematurely.

“He flew around the world. He’s 81 years old. He’s tired. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep and he gets up on the stage and looks like a deer in the headlights.”

Despite that claim, no official report supports it. President Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, released a summary of the president’s medical status following his physical on February 28, 2024. That list included six different prescriptions — none of which was Ambien.

Additionally, a short review conducted by The NY Post of Biden’s publicly disclosed medical history turned up no evidence of any Ambien prescription.

Hunter did not clarify how long his father may have been taking the sleep medication before the June debate. It was during that face-off with Trump that Biden’s confused and sluggish demeanor triggered a political firestorm within his own party, ultimately pushing him to abandon his bid for another term.

Leading up to that debate, Biden had just returned from a demanding trip overseas. He was in Italy for a G7 summit from June 13-15, shortly after attending D-Day commemorations in France. By June 20, he was secluded at Camp David preparing for the June 27 debate.

Hunter also dismissed the idea that a meaningful number of Democrats turned on his father after the poor debate performance.

“The people who came out against him were nobody, except … Speaker Emeritus [Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.] did not give a full-throated endorsement,” he said.

“The entirety of the progressive side of the Democratic Party said Joe Biden has got more of our agenda accomplished in four years than any president in history.”

Hunter recounted how, in the days that followed, his father was under immense pressure to prove he still had the stamina and sharpness needed to take on Trump in the general election.

“He gets over the hump, he goes and does the [ABC News anchor George] Stephanopoulos [interview]. Everybody goes, ‘OK, that’s not enough, we got to see him give a press conference,’” Hunter said, referencing Biden’s July 12 press conference where he mistakenly called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “Vladimir,” confusing him with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Just five days later, Biden’s effort to stabilize his campaign took another hit when the White House disclosed that he had tested positive for COVID-19.

“He woke up in the morning and he had a severe case of COVID, and the pictures of him getting on and off the plane were just devastating, and then the vultures descended,” Hunter said.

Reflecting on the aftermath, Hunter described what he believes was a calculated push to force his father out of the race.

“What I felt happened is that he was given a choice … They said, ‘We are going to blow up the party if you don’t drop out. We’re going to protest this all the way up for the next month, all the way up to the convention,’” he said.

“So Joe Biden, I think, did the most selfless thing that I know of any politician in the history of this …. country. He stepped aside to save the party.”

{Matzav.com}