Overview

• He blamed Ambien, jet lag and age for his father’s faltering showing in the June 2024 debate.
• He denied any role in the 2023 White House cocaine discovery and said he has been clean and sober since June 2019.
• He launched expletive-laden attacks on George Clooney and strategists like James Carville and David Axelrod for calling on his father to step aside.
• He challenged deportation advocates and defended undocumented workers as essential to tasks from hotel housekeeping to agriculture.
• He dismissed Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book Original Sin as a “money grab” and questioned its portrayal of his father’s fitness.