Hunter Biden’s trial on federal gun charges is now in the hands of the jury of 12 Delaware residents who will decide whether the president's son illegally bought and owned a revolver while he was an unlawful drug user or addict.
Biden, 54, faces a maximum of 25 years in prison if convicted of all three felony charges: lying on a federal screening form, lying to a gun dealer and possessing the gun. But first-time offenders on non-violent charges are typically given shorter sentences. The trial is historic because Biden is the first child of a sitting president to be tried for a crime.
Biden has acknowledged a four-year addiction to crack cocaine in his book “Beautiful Things.” But his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, argued he didn’t “knowingly” lie because he had recently completed a rehabilitation program nd wasn’t using drugs at the time he bought the gun in October 2018.
Evidence in the trial from Biden’s electronic devices showed pictures of drugs in April 2018 and texts about using drugs in the days after buying the gun.
Emotional testimony from his former romantic partners described their concerns about his addiction and their searches for contraband, to prevent his children from finding drugs or paraphernalia. His sister-in-law, Hallie Biden, testified she tossed the gun in a grocery store trash can after finding it in his truck 11 days after he bought it. A forensic chemist found cocaine residue on the leather pouch that held the gun.
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