WILMINGTON, Del.– The latest on Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial (always local):
Federal prosecutors are wrapping up their gun case in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial, with two more witnesses expected Friday in their effort to prove to jurors that the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun purchase form when he said he had no “illegal was a user of, or addicted to, drugs.
Prosecutors still plan to call a drug expert and an FBI chemist, capping a week largely devoted to highlighting the severity of his drug problem through deeply personal and sometimes salacious testimony.
Hunter Biden has been charged with three crimes: lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally possessing the gun for 11 days.
Currently:
– The prosecution is wrapping up Hunter Biden’s gun trial. Two more witnesses are expected
Here’s the latest:
The widow of Hunter Biden’s brother told jurors in his federal gun trial Thursday around the time she found the revolver in his truck and described how she put it in a leather bag, stuffed it in a shopping bag and threw it in a trash bin outside a market near her home.
“I panicked and wanted to get rid of them,” she testified about finding the gun and ammunition in the vehicle’s console in October 2018. “I didn’t want him to hurt himself, and I didn’t want my kids would do that. find and hurt themselves.”
Hunter Biden’s purchase of the Colt revolver — and Hallie Biden’s frenzied disposal of it — is the fulcrum of the case against him.
Hunter Biden should have avoided prosecution in the gun case altogether, but should have made a deal with prosecutors fell apart last year.
He was subsequently charged with three weapons offenses. He is also confronted by A trial scheduled for September for misdemeanor charges alleging failure to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes for four years.