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Hunter Biden has claimed his father, Joe Biden, was given Ambien before his disastrous debate performance with Donald Trump last year.
In his first interview since the 2024 election, Hunter spoke to YouTuber Andrew Callaghan about his father, the presidential race, and his drug addiction issues.
The more than three-hour interview was released on Callaghan’s YouTube page, Channel 5.
- Hunter Biden blamed Ambien for Joe Biden’s troubled debate performance against Trump, calling him tired and confused on stage.
- Hunter fiercely criticized George Clooney and other Democrats for calling on his father to drop out of the 2024 race.
- Hunter opened up about his past drug addiction and denied involvement in a White House cocaine incident, claiming sobriety since 2019.
- He condemned Trump and El Salvador’s President Bukele as 'dictator thugs' over harsh migrant deportation policies.
- Hunter denied reports he influenced White House decisions, saying he stayed away due to personal struggles.
Hunter Biden blamed Ambien for Joe Biden’s disastrous debate
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Hunter, 55, addressed his father’s debate with Trump on June 27, 2024, which ultimately led to Biden dropping out of the race and being replaced by Kamala Harris.
“I know exactly what happened in that debate,” Hunter told Callaghan.
“He flew around the world, the mileage that he could have flown around the world three times. He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as s**t.”
Have you watched our interview with Hunter Biden yet? What did you think? pic.twitter.com/yMMj0gvjCC
— Channel 5 (@Channel5iveNews) July 21, 2025
“They give him Ambien to be able to sleep; he gets up on the stage and looks like a deer in the headlights.”
In the debate, Biden struggled to keep up with Trump and respond to his points, often appearing confused.
It sparked concerns about his cognitive decline and age, then 81, and led to Democrats calling for him to step aside and allow another to take the reins.
This included George Clooney writing an op-ed in The New York Times urging Biden to drop out of the race.
Hunter had some choice words for the actor over his decision.
I strongly support Hunter Biden to continue talking and giving interviews. pic.twitter.com/fawmQMRm6S
— Jewish Lumber King 🇺🇲🌳🇮🇱 (@EzraDrissman) July 21, 2025
“F**k him. F**k him and everybody around him. I don’t have to be f**king nice,” Hunter said.
“Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney is not a f**king actor… he is a brand.”
“He’s great friends with Barack Obama. F**k you. What do you have to do with f**king anything? Why do I have to f**king listen to you?” Hunter added.
“What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his f**king life to the service of his country and decide that you, George Clooney, are gonna take out basically a full-page ad in The f**king New York Times?”
Hunter criticized George Clooney and other Democrats for not supporting his dad’s re-election bid
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Hunter also criticized Democratic media personalities James Carville, David Axelrod, and Anita Dunn for not supporting his father.
He opened up on his personal struggles, discussing his drug addiction and addressing claims that he traded on his father’s name.
Biden pardoned Hunter last year for any federal offenses committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024, including gun and tax charges.
“How could I possibly argue that I’ve not had enormous advantages afforded me because of who my dad was, but I certainly have paid the f**king price too,” he said.
“I’ve been held accountable in ways that nobody who didn’t have my last name would be held accountable.”
Hunter also spoke about serving on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, and while he said a lot of it had to do with money, he defended his suitability for the role.
As he listed his accomplishments, from being a painter, a businessman, and a lawyer to being a father and grandfather, he pondered how he could still not outrun his family name.
“And I’m sitting here talking about my dad,” he said.
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Candidly opening up about his struggles with drug addiction, Hunter said he learned to make his own crack cocaine to avoid dangerous dealers.
“I was drinking so much alcohol, almost a handle of vodka a day,” he said.
“Then you add on top of that the amount of crack that I was using at the time, and crack cocaine in terms of your physical health is not as dangerous as the situations you put yourself in.”
Hunter slammed Trump for deporting migrants to El Salvador
Hunter Biden: “I demanded Republicans depose me in public, and they refused — and the reason is because they’re f*cking morons… Matt Gaetz of all people was giving me sh*t.”
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— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) July 21, 2025
In 2023, a bag of cocaine was found in the White House in the lobby area of the West Executive Avenue entrance, and the FBI announced this year it was stepping up the investigation into the case.
There was speculation that the drugs could be Hunter’s, but he strongly denied this.
“I have been clean and sober since June of 2019. I have not touched a drop of alcohol or a drug, and I’m incredibly proud of that,” he told Callaghan.
“Why would I bring cocaine into the White House and stick it into a cubby outside of the situation room in the West Wing, when I wasn’t there?”
Another issue Hunter addressed was the Trump administration deporting migrants to El Salvador, likening the U.S. president to a “dictator thug.”
🚨BREAKING: In a brand new interview, Hunter Biden slams Trump and Bukele for their inhumane treatment of immigrants held in El Salvadorian prisons: “he is is a dictator thug.” Reporter: “Bukele or Trump?” Hunter Biden: “Both”
Hunter Biden is right.
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‘I say, f**k you, how are we getting those people back from f**king El Salvador. Because I’ll tell you what, if I became president… I would pick up the phone and call the f**king president of El Salvador and say, ‘You either f**king send them back or I’m gonna f**king invade.’
“It’s a f**king crime what they’re doing. He is a f**king dictator thug.”
“Bukele or Trump?” Callaghan asked.
“Both,” Hunter replied.
The White House has since responded to the comments—as has El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele.
Is it really a surprise that Hunter Biden has no respect for Americans who are upset about the criminal illegal aliens let into our country by Joe Biden? Under Biden’s reckless open-border policies, terrorists, gang members, murderers, and child pedophiles were released into… https://t.co/w0TYYNuc4A
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 21, 2025
“Is it really a surprise that Hunter Biden has no respect for Americans who are upset about the criminal illegal aliens let into our country by Joe Biden?” Homeland Security said on X.
“Under Biden’s reckless open-border policies, terrorists, gang members, murderers, and child pedophiles were released into American communities.”
Bukele shared a clip of the interview and wrote: “Is Hunter Biden sniffing powdered milk?”
CNN anchor Jake Tapper was another person Hunter slammed over his comments in a separate interview with Jaime Harrison for his new podcast At Our Table.
While promoting his and Alex Thomson’s book “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” Tapper said Hunter was involved in White House decisions.
“I think Hunter was driving the decision-making for the family,” Tapper said in May. “He was almost like a chief of staff.”
“You think Jake Tapper was telling the truth when he said I was the acting chief of staff,” Hunter told Harrison.
“I was in that White House 12 days over the course of the last two years of the administration. Clearly, because I had other things going on… I stayed as far away as I possibly could—which, by the way, broke my heart.”
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