First Lady Jill Biden turned up for Hunter Biden’s trial in Delaware on Monday on charges that he purchased a firearm while allegedly being an active drug user.
The trial begins with jury selection on Monday and is expected to last between three and six days.
The prosecutors will be relying on Biden’s memoir to make the case that he was a drug user when he bought a handgun at StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply in Wilmington on 12 October 2018.
While Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, didn’t mention buying a firearm in his memoir Beautiful Things, he did outline his drug use. Prosecutors have called the book “incriminating.”
The prosecution has also said that they may call three of Biden’s former partners – Kathleen Buhle, whom he married in 1993 and divorced in 2017, Hallie Biden, the widow of his brother Beau Biden, and a woman named as Zoe Kasten, according to Politico.
In the book, Biden referred to his relationship with his brother’s widow as “an affair built on need, hope, frailty, and doom.”
“Paparazzi tailed us nonstop,” he added. “Our relationship wasn’t just out in the open around Wilmington. It was on seventy-eight front pages around the world, from Thailand to the Czech Republic to Cincinnati.”
The three former partners are all expected to say in testimony that Biden was using crack cocaine around the time that he purchased the gun.
Hallie Biden may also speak about the gun, she allegedly found it and threw it away behind a grocery store amid concerns that Hunter Biden may turn it upon himself.
The prosecution has noted that they possibly plan on attempting to prove that Biden used illegal drugs by pointing to texts he sent at the time. A number of those text messages came from an iCloud account they got access to via a subpoena and others were sourced from a laptop that Biden is reported to have left at a repair shop and never returned to collect.
Biden and some in his orbit have stated for years that material from the laptop cannot be presumed to be authentic. Operatives backing former President Donald Trump have publicised material from the laptop as part of their attacks on Joe Biden.
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