Joe Biden's 'absolutely horrible debate' against Donald Trump due to Ambien, son Hunter says

National Post

22-07-2025

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A day after the debate, however, a much more alert Biden reaffirmed his commitment to the race at a rally in North Carolina, telling supporters 'the stakes are too high' for him to drop out. 'I know I'm not a young man. I don't walk as easily as I used to. I don't talk as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know: I know how to tell the truth,' he said, per CNN.
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'I know right from wrong. And I know how to do this job, I know how to get things done. And I know what millions of Americans know: When you get knocked down, you get back up.'
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Days later, in an ABC interview, he said he'd only step down if 'Lord Almighty' instructed him to do so.
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Hunter Biden said, 'the vultures descended' after seeing the video of his father slowly walking up the steps to Air Force One while sick with COVID. At the time, the president was still committed to seeking re-election.
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The younger Biden, whose convictions on tax and gun charges were unconditionally pardoned by his father before leaving office, contended that people need to accept that age alone does not dictate ability.
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'The thing that we're going to have to grapple with as a society that's bigger than Joe Biden is how we handle people that age in front of our eyes and recognize that they may have lost a physical step, but that does not mean they don't have the mental capacity to continue to do their job and whether there still should be to be valued.
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'So my dad grew old in front of everybody's eyes, and the difference between whether or not you thought that he was politically viable, based upon your own biases, or whether you thought that he was politically capable based upon his accomplishments.'
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Hunter Biden's over three-hour sit-down with Callaghan is also making headlines this week over expletive-laden comments the former president's son made about actor George Clooney. The Ocean's trilogy star wrote an op-ed in the New York Times after the debate in which he encouraged Biden to drop out.
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'F— him and f— everyone around him,' Biden said pointedly.
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'What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his f—ing life to the service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full-page ad in the f—ing New York Times to undermine the president?'
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Much of the interview, published on the anniversary of Joe Biden announcing his withdrawal, focuses on Biden's recovery from alcohol and drug addiction and includes a discussion about the laptop scandal. The matter involves a personal computer allegedly owned by Biden and containing contents that raised questions about his foreign business dealings and whether his father was involved. Officials eventually confirmed much of the material was real, but found no evidence directly implicating the president.
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