WILMINGTON, Del. The latest news on Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial (all times local):
Jurors will resume deliberations on Tuesday in the criminal case against Biden Hunter over a gun he bought in 2018, when prosecutors say he was addicted to crack cocaine.
Jurors deliberated for less than an hour Monday afternoon before leaving the federal courthouse in Delaware. They are weighing whether President Joe Biden’s son is guilty of three felonies in the case that pits him against his father’s Justice Department in the midst of the Democratic president’s re-election campaign.
Prosecutors spent the past week using statements from his ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, photos of him with drug paraphernalia and other tawdry evidence to argue that he lied when he marked “no” on the form at the gun store that asked if he was “ an illegal user or drug addict.
At the moment:
– The jurors resume deliberations in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter
Here are the latest:
The trial began last week in Delaware federal court, with prosecutors trying to show that Hunter Biden was addicted and used drugs regularly during the 11-day period he purchased and owned the gun.
Hunter Biden’s defense team sought to show that he did not consider himself an “addict” when he filled out the form and said he was trying to change his life at the time.
