A verdict has been passed Hunter Biden‘s weapons and drugs trial.
President Joe BidenThe scandal-plagued son, 54, has been charged with lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on an application by saying he was not a drug user, and illegally possessing a gun for 11 days.
If convicted, he could face up to 25 years in prison.
A total of thirteen witnesses testified, and the jury was shown compelling evidence, including his infamous laptop and photos of him weighing and taking drugs.
Every day he is supported by members of his family, including the First Lady Jill Biden who listened to the emotional testimony.
The jury reached a verdict in the gun and drug case against President Joe Biden’s 54-year-old son, Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden’s trial began with jury selection on June 3 — just days after former President Donald Trump was convicted in a Manhattan court of 34 charges over his hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The back-to-back trials show how common the legal challenges facing both the current and former presidents are, with just five months until the 2024 presidential election.
Every day, Hunter was seen entering the courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, holding hands with his wife Melissa Cohen Biden.
Just a week after the trial of the president’s son began, closing arguments were delivered Monday and the jury was sent out to deliberate on a verdict.
Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife Melissa Cohen Biden, arrives at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware on June 11, 2024
The Colt Cobra revolver that Hunter Biden purchased on October 12, 2018
If Hunter is found guilty of all three charges, he could face up to 25 years in prison, although first-time offenders typically do not receive the maximum sentence.
The charge stems from the 2018 purchase of a firearm in Delaware, where Hunter is accused of lying about his addiction to crack cocaine when filling out a federal form to obtain a gun.
The trial, despite only lasting a week, had several dramatic moments, including an outburst from the first son’s wife.
On the second day of the trial on Tuesday, Cohen slammed Biden into former Trump associate Garrett Ziegler as he attended the hearing, calling him a “Nazi piece of s***.”
During the dramatic outburst outside the Delaware courtroom, Hunter’s wife, wearing a baby blue jacket, pink shirt and heels, stood just six inches away from Ziegler and said, “You have no right to be here, you piece of Nazi.”
Ziegler did not respond.
The former Trump aide became infamous among the Bidens after publishing extensive material from Hunter’s laptop through Marco Polo – his right-wing nonprofit.
First Lady Jill Biden also attended the trial of her stepson in Delaware
Hunter was accused of lying on a firearms report (above) needed for his 2018 gun transaction. A photo of the form shows he answered “no” when asked if he was an “unlawful user of or addicted to marijuana or an another depressant was’. stimulants, narcotics or other controlled substances’
The contents of the explosive laptop hard drive were shared with the jury during the trial – including videos, photos and text messages.
Evidence from the device showed the president’s son was in the grips of drug addiction in 2018, the same year he purchased the firearm.
Melissa Cohen Biden shook her head as prosecutor Derek Hines took the Macbook Pro 13 from a plastic case, walked around the courtroom with it and presented it to the jury during a dramatic day in court.
The revelation came on the second day of the trial, when Hunter “smoked crack every 15 minutes” as the prosecutor detailed his life of “debauchery.”
Hines’ first witness was FBI agent Erika Jensen, who confirmed that the device belonged to Hunter – an admission that flew in the face of many who tried to discredit its contents as Russian disinformation.
He then showed the court evidence taken from the ‘Laptop from Hell’ – including photos of text messages in which Hunter calls himself an ‘addict’ and his conversations with suspected drug dealers.
The laptop, along with admissions in his own memoir Beautiful Things, revealed that he was in the depths of addiction during the same period in which he said on a federal firearms form that he was not an addict or a user of illegal substances.
An image from Hunter Biden’s laptop shows the president’s son naked and with a gun next to him
Hunter Biden’s hard drive, which was left at a repair shop and leaked to conservative media, also contained images of the president’s son smoking from a crack pipe
Hunter also faces a separate lawsuit in California on charges of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes. It is expected that it will go to trial this fall.
Both cases were expected to be resolved through a deal he struck with prosecutors last summer after a years-long investigation into his business dealings.
If the deal held up, the president’s son would avoid jail time.
But the plea deal fell apart in spectacular fashion in court in July 2023, leaving Hunter open to new charges and allowing both cases to proceed.
Judge Maryellen Noreika questioned some unusual aspects of the agreement, including a proposed guilty plea to misdemeanors to resolve the tax crimes and a diversion agreement on the gun charge, which meant that as long as he stayed out of trouble for two years, the case would be settled . to get fired.
Hunter and Hallie Biden, the widow of his late brother, with whom he had a romantic relationship
Hunter Biden’s Aunt Valerie and Uncle James – sister and brother of President Joe Biden – attended the trial on Monday in Wilmington, Delaware
Ashley Biden arrives at federal court in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday, June 7, to support her brother Hunter Biden
During the trial, several of Biden’s family members came to the courthouse at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building to support Hunter.
Those in attendance include his sister Ashley, his uncle and President Biden’s brother James, and the president’s sister and Hunter’s aunt Valerie.
