Hunter Biden found guilty on all three gun charges

As President Joe Biden engages in the fight of his political life in a campaign focused on democracy and the rule of law, the most intimate details of his family’s ongoing personal tragedies have been publicly dissected in a courtroom over the last week.
Hours of testimony during Hunter Biden’s trial for federal criminal charges have focused on his difficulties with addiction following the death of his brother Beau Biden, exposing some of the most private issues facing the Biden family.
The president’s son has entered a not guilty plea to three felonies pertaining to a firearm he bought in October 2018.
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For many years, the president has balanced the occasionally conflicting demands of both fatherhood and politics, especially with regard to Hunter Biden.
The president’s capacity to empathize with others’ misfortunes stems from his own family’s experiences, which include the loss of his first wife and daughter in a car accident in 1972 that left Beau and Hunter with serious injuries, as well as Beau’s death from brain cancer in 2015.
In court, there has been discussion of the impact Beau Biden’s passing had on his younger brother.
Whether Hunter Biden lied on a form claiming he wasn’t a “unlawful user of, or addicted to” narcotics at the time he bought a revolver in October 2018 is in question in this case.
The jury started deliberating on Monday afternoon.
Prosecutor Derek Hines made the same claim during the government’s opening statements that the Biden campaign did in reaction to Trump’s guilty conviction last month:
“No one is above the law,” regardless of their family name.
Through the testimony of those close to Hunter Biden and occasionally his own words, prosecutors laid out the shattered connections and desperate measures he used to obtain narcotics in order to persuade the jury that he was actively taking drugs around October 2018.
In order to prove that Hunter Biden was using drugs when he purchased the gun, prosecutors have also displayed the laptop that Biden left at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019—a device that is notorious for being at the focus of numerous GOP assaults on the president and his son.
They have also used text messages that were taken from the computer.
Prosecutors played snippets from Hunter’s audiobook recording of his 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things,” during the first day of hearing.
Jurors, some of whom had lost loved ones to addiction, listened for almost an hour as Hunter detailed the depths of his addiction, from being taken advantage of by other drug users to wandering Los Angeles’ homeless encampments in search of crack.
The evidence of Hunter Biden’s closest family members, such as his daughter Naomi, his ex-girlfriend Hallie Biden, the widow of his brother, and his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, were the most poignant aspects of the trial.
The impact of Hunter’s drug usage on their own lives was unavoidable, even if the inquiries they were asked were intended to ascertain whether Hunter was taking drugs in 2018.