Hunter Biden jury sees evidence of addiction, hears ‘no one is above the law’

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Jurors in federal court in Delaware heard opening statements by prosecution and defense lawyers in the first trial of a child of a sitting US president before witness testimony began. The trial, presided over by US District Judge Maryellen Noreika, began in the aftermath of Donald Trump last week becoming the first former US president to. Trump is the Republican candidate challenging Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 5 US election. Neither the prosecution nor the defense directly addressed that issue.

US Special Counsel David Weiss, a Trump appointee, brought the case against Hunter Biden and was present in the courtroom on Tuesday. Weiss has separately filed federal tax charges against Hunter Biden in California. That included a text the day after Hunter Biden bought the gun in which he said he was “waiting for a dealer named Mookie” and another the next day in which he said he had been sleeping on top of a car and smoking crack.

Lowell said Hunter Biden did not have a credit card at the time and was spending thousands of dollars on drug recovery.

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