On June 7, 2024, US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden arrived at the federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, US, to face trial on criminal firearms charges.
Hannah Bell | Reuters
Prosecutors on Friday rested their case in the federal gun trial of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden’s defense attorneys are now preparing to present their case, which is expected to wrap up next week in U.S. District Court in Delaware. It’s unclear whether they plan to call their client to testify on their behalf.
Hunter Biden, 54, was indicted on three counts related to his purchase and possession of a Colt Cobra revolver while using illegal drugs.
Prosecutors said there was “overwhelming” evidence that Hunter was addicted to crack cocaine at the time of the gun purchase and that he lied on a form used in a federal background check to purchase the gun.
Jurors heard testimony Thursday from Halle Biden, the widow of Hunter’s late brother Beau Biden.
In 2018, Halle Biden discovered and disposed of the gun at the center of the case.
She also developed a relationship with Hunter Biden after Beau Biden died of cancer in 2015. situation and then “googled it because I didn’t know what it was” it was.
She testified that she found the revolver in Hunter’s truck on Oct. 23, 2018, and threw it behind a grocery store.
“I didn’t want him to hurt himself and I didn’t want my kids to find it and hurt themselves,” she told the jury.
The president said in an interview with ABC News on Thursday that he Will not forgive his son If he is convicted, he will accept whatever verdict the jury reaches.
The trial of the sitting president’s only surviving son begins days after former President Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Trump baselessly claimed that the case, filed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and heard in a New York state court, was planned by Biden to harm Trump’s chances in the 2024 presidential election.
Even as Biden’s own son faces indictments from the federal Justice Department in two different courts, the presumptive Republican nominee and his allies have continued to spread the claim and raise money.
This is developing news. Please check back for updates.
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