(Here we go: blame anything or anyone but the man himself.)
From:
https://tinyurl.com/f8t3yfbf (newsmax.com)
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Hunter Biden: Dad Was on Ambien Before 'Horrible' Debate With Trump
By Michael Katz | Monday, 21 July 2025 06:23 PM EDT
Hunter Biden says his father was on the prescription sedative Ambien
before an "absolutely horrible" debate performance last year against
now-President Donald Trump.
His comments, made in a three-hour interview with the YouTube show
"Channel 5," were published Monday, the anniversary of when then-President
Joe Biden abandoned his 2024 reelection bid.
"I know exactly what happened in that debate," said Hunter Biden, who was
pardoned by his father for any crimes he might have committed from Jan. 1,
2014, to Dec. 1, 2024. "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."
The elder Biden traveled to France from June 5 to 9 and Italy from June 13
to 15 before returning to Los Angeles for a fundraiser hosted by George
Clooney on June 15, during which he froze briefly and was escorted off the
stage by former President Barack Obama. Biden then spent the week before
the debate at Camp David.
The Food and Drug Administration noted that people over 70 are more
susceptible to confusion and falls while on Ambien. Biden's annual
physical report in February 2024 did not list Ambien among the six
medicines he was taking.
Kevin O'Connor, Biden's personal physician who released the report,
insisted after the debate that Biden's mental and physical fitness was
"excellent."
Earlier this month, O'Connor invoked his Fifth Amendment right against
self-incrimination when he refused a House committee's questions regarding
allegations of a cover-up of the former president's mental capabilities.
Biden's debate performance raised more alarm about his cognitive
abilities. He often appeared confused, his speech was rambling, and he was
pictured with his mouth agape as Trump answered questions. This led other
Democrats to urge him to step down and let then-Vice President Kamala
Harris take over the party's presidential campaign.
"They said, 'We are going to blow up the party if you don't drop out,'"
Hunter Biden said. "'We're going to protest this all the way up for the
next month, all the way up to the convention.'
After the debate, Hunter Biden says his father was left with the
impossible task of proving to party leaders that he was up to campaigning
against Trump.
"He gets over the hump, he goes and does [an interview with ABC News'
George] Stephanopoulos," Hunter Biden said. "Everybody goes, 'OK, that's
not enough, we've got to see him give a press conference.'"
At the July 11 news conference, Joe Biden referred to Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy as "Vladimir," apparently confusing him with Russian
President Vladimir Putin, Harris as Trump - "I wouldn't have picked Vice
President Trump to be vice president [if] I didn't think she was qualified
to be president" - and referring to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
as the "commander in chief" before correcting himself.
Hunter Biden said he did not see it coming when his father dropped out of
the race.
"I thought that we had cleared all the hurdles that they had set up for
us," he said. "And so, if you remember, it was a horrible debate, and
there's no arguing that it was anything but an absolutely horrible debate.
And I think it scared the [expletive] out of a lot of people because they
were already concerned about his age."
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