Pictures of President Joe Biden's son with drug paraphernalia and bare-chested in a bubble bath. Text messages between Hunter Biden and drug dealers. Testimony from Hunter's exes about relationships destroyed by his drug use. Hunter Biden's trial on gun charges brought by his father's Justice Department has put on full display tawdry and embarrassing details about the president's son, all while first lady Jill Biden watches from the courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware.
Hunter Biden hasn't taken the witness stand and it is not clear whether he will. Jurors have already heard his own words about the depths of his drug and alcohol addiction after his brother, Beau, died in 2015. A central piece of the prosecution's case is Hunter Biden's memoir “Beautiful Things,' in which the president's son opened up about his crack cocaine addiction, stints in rehab and struggles to get sober.
The defense argued in a court filing Friday that prosecutors have failed to present evidence that Hunter Biden was actually using drugs in the 11 days he owned the gun. “It was only after the gun was thrown away and the ensuing stress ... that the government was able to then find the same type of evidence of his use that he relapsed with drugs,' defense lawyer Abbe Lowell wrote.
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