(Wilmington) An FBI agent testified Wednesday at Hunter Biden’s criminal trial on the east coast of the United States about her investigation into the US president’s son accused of purchasing a gun while he was drinking. drugs again in 2018.
Hunter Biden, a 54-year-old lawyer and businessman turned artist who recovered from years of crack and alcohol addiction, is a favorite target of his father’s opponents — most notably former Republican President Donald Trump. They see him as a weak point for Joe Biden, the Democratic incumbent.
Hunter Biden has been appearing since Monday in federal court in Delaware, stronghold of the Biden family, for having lied about his drug use when he acquired a firearm in 2018, a crime in the United States.
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 indictment because he recounts years of addiction.
He has pleaded not guilty and his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, assured jurors that “he was no longer using drugs when he acquired this gun [which] was never, ever, loaded, carried or used during the 11 days where it has been in his possession” in October 2018.
The subject of much controversy and conspiracy theories, a laptop of Biden’s son recovered and used by the FBI federal police was shown to the 12 jurors on Tuesday by the prosecutor.
The FBI agent involved, Erika Jensen, testified all morning on the stand before being followed by Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle.
First lady Jill Biden is present Wednesday to support her son-in-law, like every day since the trial began.
The 81-year-old president, who has been plagued by family tragedies – he lost his first wife and daughter in a car accident in 1972 and his eldest son Beau Biden to cancer in 2015 – assured Hunter of his “infinite love” in a statement.
Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison, but in practice such prosecutions rarely result in prison time on their own.