(Here we go: blame anything or anyone but the man himself.)

              From: https://tinyurl.com/f8t3yfbf (newsmax.com)

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     Hunter Biden: Dad Was on Ambien Before 'Horrible' Debate With Trump

          By Michael Katz    |   Monday, 21 July 2025 06:23 PM EDT

   Hunter Biden says his father was on the prescription sedative Ambien
   before an "absolutely horrible" debate performance last year against
   now-President Donald Trump.

   His comments, made in a three-hour interview with the YouTube show
   "Channel 5," were published Monday, the anniversary of when then-President
   Joe Biden abandoned his 2024 reelection bid.

   "I know exactly what happened in that debate," said Hunter Biden, who was
   pardoned by his father for any crimes he might have committed from Jan. 1,
   2014, to Dec. 1, 2024. "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."

   The elder Biden traveled to France from June 5 to 9 and Italy from June 13
   to 15 before returning to Los Angeles for a fundraiser hosted by George
   Clooney on June 15, during which he froze briefly and was escorted off the
   stage by former President Barack Obama. Biden then spent the week before
   the debate at Camp David.

   The Food and Drug Administration noted that people over 70 are more
   susceptible to confusion and falls while on Ambien. Biden's annual
   physical report in February 2024 did not list Ambien among the six
   medicines he was taking.

   Kevin O'Connor, Biden's personal physician who released the report,
   insisted after the debate that Biden's mental and physical fitness was
   "excellent."

   Earlier this month, O'Connor invoked his Fifth Amendment right against
   self-incrimination when he refused a House committee's questions regarding
   allegations of a cover-up of the former president's mental capabilities.

   Biden's debate performance raised more alarm about his cognitive
   abilities. He often appeared confused, his speech was rambling, and he was
   pictured with his mouth agape as Trump answered questions. This led other
   Democrats to urge him to step down and let then-Vice President Kamala
   Harris take over the party's presidential campaign.

   "They said, 'We are going to blow up the party if you don't drop out,'"
   Hunter Biden said. "'We're going to protest this all the way up for the
   next month, all the way up to the convention.'

   After the debate, Hunter Biden says his father was left with the
   impossible task of proving to party leaders that he was up to campaigning
   against Trump.

   "He gets over the hump, he goes and does [an interview with ABC News'
   George] Stephanopoulos," Hunter Biden said. "Everybody goes, 'OK, that's
   not enough, we've got to see him give a press conference.'"

   At the July 11 news conference, Joe Biden referred to Ukrainian President
   Volodymyr Zelenskyy as "Vladimir," apparently confusing him with Russian
   President Vladimir Putin, Harris as Trump - "I wouldn't have picked Vice
   President Trump to be vice president [if] I didn't think she was qualified
   to be president" - and referring to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
   as the "commander in chief" before correcting himself.

   Hunter Biden said he did not see it coming when his father dropped out of
   the race.

   "I thought that we had cleared all the hurdles that they had set up for
   us," he said. "And so, if you remember, it was a horrible debate, and
   there's no arguing that it was anything but an absolutely horrible debate.
   And I think it scared the [expletive] out of a lot of people because they
   were already concerned about his age."
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-- Sean

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