In an interview with YouTube interviewer Andrew Callaghan, former first son Hunter Biden suggested that his father, former President Joe Biden, was perhaps strung out on sleeping pill Ambien at the time of his June 27, 2024, debate against President Donald Trump, who bested him on stage that night.

Speaking to Callaghan, the younger Biden recounted his father’s time on the campaign trail, during which he was also in charge of the nation. “I know exactly what happened in that debate,” Biden said, “He flew around the world basically, the mileage he could have flown around the world three times, he’s 81-years-old, he’s tired as sh*t, they give him Ambien to be able to sleep, he gets up on the stage and he looks like a deer in the headlights.”

That debate was the beginning of the end of the Biden campaign. Biden, who was running for a second term in the White House, was unintelligible during parts of the debate. At one point, when asked a question, his answer was so confusing that when Trump responded, he said, “I don’t know what he’s saying, and I don’t think he does either.”

Less than a month later, after an assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, PA and resounding calls from within his own party to step down, Biden withdrew from the race and immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him as the Democratic Party’s nominee.

Harris took the reins of the campaign and did not perform well against Trump, who had a groundswell of support both prior to the debate and afterwards. Biden pardoned his son prior to leaving office, wiping clean his slate of federal convictions.