Hunter is letting it all out. He’s making revelations that are completely stunning.
And Hunter Biden has made a shocking admission about his father Joe that one one was expecting.
Hunter Biden’s Explosive Claims: The Debate That Derailed a Presidency
In a revealing interview dropped on July 21—exactly one year after President Joe Biden abandoned his re-election campaign—Hunter Biden spilled new details about the catastrophic June 27, 2024, debate that sealed his father’s political fate. Speaking with YouTube host Andrew Callaghan, the 55-year-old Hunter pinned part of the blame on exhaustion and a sleep aid, offering a raw glimpse into the chaos that unfolded.
“I know exactly what happened in that debate,” Hunter said. “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.”
Hunter’s mention of Ambien, a widely used sleep medication, raises eyebrows. The FDA warns that people over 70—like Joe Biden at 81—face increased risks of side effects like drowsiness, with slower drug metabolism.
Yet Hunter didn’t detail how long his father took the medication before the debate, leaving a key question unanswered.
The debate itself was a disaster. Biden showed up hours late to check the CNN stage, after lingering for over four hours at a nearby hotel.
His performance stunned viewers, with long moments of silence, and a bizarre claim that he “finally beat Medicare.” The fallout was immediate, igniting a Democratic uprising that forced Biden to step aside on July 21, 2024, handing the nomination to then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
“They said, ‘We are going to blow up the party if you don’t drop out,’” Hunter recalled, describing the intense pressure. “‘We’re going to protest this all the way up for the next month, all the way up to the convention.’”
Strangely, Ambien never appeared in Biden’s February 2024 physical report, which listed six medications but excluded the sleep aid. A review of Biden’s public medical records by the New York Post also turned up no trace of a prescription for Ambien.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s longtime doctor and friend, called the former president’s health “excellent” after the debate. But O’Connor faced bipartisan criticism after Biden’s May 2025 stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis, with many arguing the cancer should have been caught before spreading to his bones. O’Connor recently invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during a House committee probe, dodging questions.
Joe Biden also had a busy pre-debate schedule: a trip to France for the 80th D-Day anniversary, followed by a G7 summit in Italy from June 13-15, 2024. By June 20, Biden was at Camp David prepping for the debate.
Brushing off the Democratic rebellion, Hunter downplayed the critics’ clout. “The people who came out against him were nobody, except … Speaker Emeritus [Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.] did not give a full-throated endorsement,” he stated.
He touted his father’s record, insisting, “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.”
After the debate, Biden scrambled to prove his fitness. Hunter described a follow-up ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos that fell flat, followed by a July 12 press conference where Biden mistakenly called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “Vladimir,” seemingly mixing him up with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
A COVID-19 diagnosis on July 17, paired with unflattering images of Biden boarding a plane, further sank his campaign.
“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. He hailed his father’s exit as “the most selfless thing that I know of any politician in the history of this f—ing country.”
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