Hunter Biden, it’s your life!
The first son’s ex-wife and two of his former lovers are expected to testify in Delaware federal court about his crack addiction as he heads to his weapons trial starting June 3.
Hunter’s former wife Kathleen Buhle, his sister-in-law-turned-lover Hallie Biden and baby mama Lunden Roberts all recall Hunter, now 54,’s near-constant drug use during the period of October 2018, when he lied about his addiction and purchased a handgun, according to court documents filed Monday.
Hunter deliberately claimed on a federal background check form that he was neither a user of controlled substances nor a drug addict when purchasing the firearm on Oct. 12, 2018, prosecutors say, pointing out in documents filed earlier this year that cocaine was found on the gun’s pouch. .
Hallie’s testimony will confirm that Hunter returned to Delaware around the same time and possessed the Colt Cobra .38 Special for 11 days before throwing it in a trash can outside a Wilmington supermarket.
Special counsel David Weiss indicted the first son on three counts last September, accusing him of illegally possessing the gun and lying on the background check form.
Weiss did not reveal the names of the witnesses in the documents, but their identities are clear from public reports, data from Hunter’s abandoned laptop, other documents produced in the Republican impeachment inquiry of the House on President Biden and excerpts from Hunter’s own 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things.” »
Hunter, in an interview with the Daily Beast published Monday, said some photos of drug use found on his laptop were misleading.
A notorious photo of Biden’s scion fast asleep with what appears to be a crack pipe in his mouth is not, in fact, a crack pipe, he told the outlet.
“It’s actually a meth pipe,” Hunter said of the photo, which he believes was staged.
But in a trove of text messages obtained by prosecutors, Hunter admitted to buying and using drugs as well as trying and failing to stay sober over a period of about four years that included his purchase of the gun.
Buhle told Hunter in a March 9, 2018 message that she “found a few crack pipes” in the family car and removed them because their “daughter was driving it” at the time.
Prosecutors also said Buhle “found drugs or paraphernalia on approximately a dozen occasions, which she threw in a trash can,” and Hunter began using her cellphone to communicate in October 2018 with Hallie, the widow of his brother Beau, the former lawyer. general of Delaware who died three years earlier of brain cancer.
Hunter and Buhle separated in October 2015 and she filed for divorce which was finalized in April 2017 – claiming in court documents that her husband had spent “extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol , prostitutes, strip clubs and gifts for men). women with whom he has sexual relations), while leaving the family without funds to pay legitimate bills.
The couple share three daughters — Naomi, Finnegan and Maisy — the last of whom was coached in basketball by Roberts in 2017, according to emails on Hunter’s abandoned laptop.
Roberts had met Hunter that same year at the Mpire strip club in Washington, D.C., where she danced under the stage name “Dallas” and gave birth to another of his daughters, Navy Joan, before they separated the year next.
The Arkansas native is prepared to testify that she observed her first son smoking crack “every 20 minutes except when he was sleeping” during their nearly year-long affair, prosecutors wrote of the witness.
Roberts and Hunter settled a child support dispute last year – after a paternity test proved Hunter was the father.
In a page from the first son’s memoir entered into evidence, Hunter wrote that he returned to Delaware in “the fall of 2018, after my last relapse in California, in hopes of getting clean through new therapy and to reconcile with Hallie.
At the time, Hunter was “in the throes of addiction and needed help coupled with love,” Hallie said of her brother-in-law, as the two carried on an affair before, during and after the purchase of the handgun. .
Hunter knew he was a drug addict the same day Hallie took his gun, according to other text messages introduced by prosecutors that had been revealed via IRS whistleblower disclosures to the House Ways and Means Committee l ‘last year.
“Fuckin’ Hallie from the FBI. It’s hard to believe someone is that stupid,” Hunter said in a post after meeting with police who recovered the gun in October 2018. “Owning a gun that is in a locked car hidden on another property ? You say I’m invading your privacy. What more can I do than come back to you and try again. And you do that????
“Who in their right mind would believe you would help me get sober?” he fumed.
Other location data contained in Hunter’s cell phone photos and messages sent to Hallie corroborate his crack cocaine abuse.
“I was sleeping in a car smoking crack on 4th Street and Rodney,” he wrote in a text to Hallie on October 14, 2018.
A month after the gun incident, Hunter also confessed to Hallie: “I’m a liar, a thief, an accuser, and a user, and I’m a delusional and an addict unlike all the other addicts that you know and that I have known. has ruined every relationship I’ve ever cherished.
In December 2018, he also texted Hallie to “completely” admit that he was a drug addict but that he would “get sober when I want to get sober.”
Hallie witnessed his drug use and even searched Hunter’s “bags, backpacks and vehicle in an effort to help him get sober, and discovered drug paraphernalia and drugs in his possession repeatedly,” prosecutors added.
The court will also hear testimony from DEA Supervisory Special Agent Joshua Romig, “who will provide his opinion on the coded terms and drug language” in Hunter’s text messages, and prosecutors also plan to ” show videos and photographs of the defendant smoking crack.”
FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen, an employee of Starquest Shooters in Wilmington – where Hunter purchased the gun – and two Delaware state troopers will also testify.
Prosecutors said they could also present evidence from other text messages if Hunter’s defense team — including lead attorney Abbe Lowell — argues their client was unaware of his actions.
The IRS disclosures to Congress include a message in which Hunter told Hallie that he had “been unstable when you put a gun in the trash… out of FEAR.”
The first son has pleaded not guilty to the Delaware indictment, for which he faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
New York Post
