Hunter Biden is set to face trial in a federal court in Delaware on Monday on allegations that he failed to declare his drug addiction on a form when purchasing a gun in 2018.
The subject of Monday’s jury selection hearing in Delaware is a gun that Biden, 56, owned for approximately 11 days, a.38-caliber Colt Cobra Special. According to the prosecution, he purchased it unlawfully in October 2018 after making a fraudulent statement on a federal form claiming he did not use drugs. His lawyers claim that he never discharged the pistol, and it was eventually thrown in a garbage can.
Although the trial is unrelated to Hunter Biden’s business dealings, which have been the focus of a lengthy federal investigation and a fruitless Republican impeachment investigation into his father, U.S. President Joe Biden, it is anticipated to include intensely private and embarrassing testimony regarding a difficult period in the younger Biden’s life. Additionally, it is likely to provide Donald Trump’s supporters fresh political momentum as they want to divert attention away from the presumed Republican presidential nominee’s own legal issues following his conviction on 34 felony counts related to hush money.
The matter arose during a time when Hunter Biden was addicted to crack, as he himself has admitted. In his memoir “Beautiful Things,” he talked about how, following the death of his elder brother Beau at the age of 46 from brain cancer, he became engrossed in drugs and alcohol. Prosecutors argued that he was aware of his drug addiction even though he claimed not to have one on the paperwork required to purchase a firearm. Text messages, images, and videos of Hunter Biden using crack will be likely shown to the jury, in an attempt to also indirectly discredit his father and presumptive Democratic nominee for the November presidential election.
In the meantime, Hunter and his father Joe were photographed on Saturday afternoon at a church in Delaware and later riding a bicycle. They had gathered earlier in the week to commemorate the passing of Beau, the president’s eldest son, who passed away on May 30, 2015.
