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Hunter Biden said former President Joe Biden was taking Ambien before his disastrous debate with President Donald Trump last year that was the catalyst to his exit from the 2024 presidential campaign, making the claim for the first time in a new interview aired a year after Biden’s historic exit from the race.
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. U.S. President Joe Biden, looks on from the East Room of the White House ... More
Biden’s team would “give him Ambien to be able to sleep and he gets up on the stage and looks like a deer in the headlights,” Hunter Biden said, noting the president’s intensive travel schedule in the lead-up to the debate.
Hunter Biden’s statement in an interview with YouTuber Andrew Callaghan marks the first mention of Biden taking the medication as Biden’s circle has continued to try to explain his disastrous debate performance a year after he ended his presidential bid.
This is a developing story and will be updated.