Hunter Bidens ex-wife Kathleen Buhle testifies in gun trial | Testimony begins in Hunter Biden trial

Welcome back. Hunter Biden's ex wife took the witness stand. Wednesday as prosecutors try and prove the president's son was a drug user when he applied to buy a gun. In 2018 testimony from the prosecution's first witness, an FBI agent wrapped up this morning with cross examination by the defense. Erica Brown is in Wilmington, Delaware with the update testimony in Hunter Biden's gun trial continued Wednesday with his ex wife, Kathleen Buell and ex girlfriend, Zoe Keston on the stand. Prosecutors called them to testify about Hunter's history of drug use under cross examination. Defense attorneys asked Buell if she ever saw Hunter using drugs. No, she replied on redirect. The prosecutor asked Buell how she knew Hunter was using drugs. She replied, he told me, Buell also said she assumed Hunter was continuing to use when she found pipes in the car. About a dozen times. The president's son faces three felony charges stemming from the purchase of a gun in 2018. He said on the application he was not a drug user so far. This week, federal prosecutors have spent hours showing jurors evidence of Biden's drug problem including playing excerpts of him narrating the audio book of his memoir, I used my superpower finding crack any time anywhere less than a day after landing at LAX in the spring of 2018 on the stand Wednesday morning, an FBI agent faced cross examination about the timeline of Hunter Biden's drug use. Defense attorney, Abbe Lowell pointed to text messages from Hunter Biden's devices around the time noting that those specifically did not reference drugs. If convicted Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison and fines of up to $750,000 prosecutors are not required to prove Hunter Biden was using drugs the day he bought the gun only that he was using them around the time of the purchase when he is accused of having lied on the form.

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Length: 1min 55sec (115 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 06 2024