Hunter Biden Weighs In on Father’s Debate Performance During Podcast Interview

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You thought the Biden saga couldn’t get any stranger? Buckle up. Because Hunter Biden—yes, that Hunter Biden—just casually dropped a little grenade on his father’s legacy, and the blast radius is still spreading.

In a three-hour sit-down on Andrew Callaghan’s “Channel 5” YouTube show, Hunter didn’t just reminisce or defend dear old Dad. He offered up a theory that sounds like something ripped out of a late-night monologue: Joe Biden, the sitting president at the time, took Ambien to help him sleep before that disastrous June 27 debate against Donald Trump.

Think about what that means. This wasn’t some crank on social media. This was the president’s own son, the same one who’s been embroiled in enough scandals to fill an encyclopedia, calmly explaining that the 81-year-old commander-in-chief was jetlagged, medicated, and stumbling into a debate that would ultimately end his political career. Hunter didn’t sugarcoat it: “He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he’s a deer in the headlights.”

And here’s where the tension ramps up. Ambien—Zolpidem, for those keeping score—isn’t a harmless little sleep aid. It’s infamous for memory gaps, confusion, even sleepwalking. Yet somehow, through all the official White House medical disclosures, through every carefully staged press release, that little detail never appeared. Not once.

Meanwhile, those whispers about Biden’s mental state weren’t coming out of nowhere. For years, Americans watched him stumble through speeches, lose his place in public appearances, and repeat the same stories word for word. But it was that debate—live, unfiltered, impossible to spin—where the mask slipped completely. Democrats panicked. Pelosi and Schumer leaned on him hard. And a few weeks later, the party that once promised stability was left scrambling when Biden dropped out and handed the reins to Kamala Harris, who went on to lose in historic fashion.

But hold on, because the story doesn’t end there. In the background, Congress is digging. The House Oversight Committee has been pressing for answers about Biden’s cognitive health during his final years in office. Earlier this month, his own former doctor was called to testify. Instead? He pleaded the Fifth. A Jill Biden aide was next—and also pleaded the Fifth.

When you connect those dots, it starts to look less like a coincidence and more like a very deliberate wall of silence. Why the evasions? Why risk the optics of refusing to testify if there’s nothing to hide?

Hunter insists there’s no conspiracy, just age catching up. But here’s the part that gnaws at you: if it really was that simple, why are key insiders lawyering up and shutting down questions? Why do the official records tell one story while the president’s own son tells another?

He’s such a joke: (WARNING: LANGUAGE)

His character, or lack thereof, speaks for itself:

Somewhere, those thumb drives of medical notes and internal memos might hold answers the American people never got. And if the White House spent years covering up a compromised commander-in-chief making executive decisions under the fog of a powerful sedative… what else haven’t we been told?

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