(Wilmington) Hunter Biden’s ex-wife on Wednesday revealed part of their life together and discussed the crack addiction of the son of the President of the United States, on trial for the alleged illegal purchase of a firearm in 2018.
Hunter Biden, a 54-year-old lawyer and businessman turned artist, who recovered from years of drug and alcohol addiction, is a favorite target of the adversaries of his father, Donald Trump in the first place .
They see him as Joe Biden’s weak point, five months before the presidential election which will oppose the two men.
For the third day in a row, first lady Jill Biden, Hunter’s mother-in-law, came to the courtroom in Wilmington to show her support for her son-in-law, whom she warmly embraced.
She stayed for part of the day.
Like Tuesday, the debates focused on Hunter Biden’s addiction problems.
His first wife Kathleen Buhle – they divorced in 2017 – told the stand that she first found a crack pipe on July 3, 2015, in their Washington home, when Joe Biden was vice president by Barack Obama.
“When my daughter was using the car, I had to check that she was not driving a vehicle carrying drugs,” she testified, claiming to have found them “about ten times.”
Mr. Biden’s lawyer then had Ms. Buhle confirm that she no longer saw him much and that she did not know whether he was still addicted in October 2018 when he purchased the gun, which “did not was never, ever, loaded, carried or used during the 11 days it was in his possession,” according to the attorney.
The defense wants to show that, that year, the accused was in a drug withdrawal phase, with ups and downs.
Then the jury heard testimony from Zoe Kestan, Hunter Biden’s romantic acquaintance whom he met at a club in New York in late 2017.
Whenever they saw each other at hotels or residences in New York, Atlantic City or California, Hunter Biden would smoke crack “about every 20 minutes,” said Zoe Kestan, for whom the president’s youngest son is a “so charming and kind” man who was trying to get through but failed.
The prosecution even paraded photos showing Hunter Biden in his bath, a glass pipe protruding from his hand.
On Tuesday, the audience was devoted at length to listening to extracts from his autobiography, Les Belles Choses, an audio book that has become an incriminating piece, because in it he recounts years of addiction when he “smoked” crack.
The subject of numerous controversies and conspiracy theories, a laptop of Biden’s son – recovered and used by the federal police (FBI) – was also shown on Tuesday by the prosecutor.
The FBI agent who investigated Hunter Biden, Erika Jensen, testified Wednesday morning.
The latter faces up to 25 years in prison, but in practice such prosecutions rarely result in prison time.