“Hunter Biden didn’t knowingly lie when he filled out a form to buy a gun in 2018 and checked a box contending that he wasn’t using drugs, his lawyer told a jury during opening statements Tuesday for his trial in Delaware federal court,” Bloomberg reports.
Said lawyer Abbe Lowell: “He didn’t knowingly violate the law. The charges against Hunter are not minor. They are serious.”
“Biden’s defense to an indictment brought by Special Counsel David Weiss appears to hinge on a technical reading of the form when he answered ‘no’ to a question about whether he was an active unlawful user of any controlled substance. Lowell picked apart the definition on the form, saying the law prohibits someone who ‘is’ using drugs and asks an applicant if they ‘are’ using drugs.”
