Prosecutors are telling the jury about Hunter Biden’s memoir. They quoted him describing his “superpower of finding crack anywhere, anytime.”
Turning to the jury, Hines said, “those are [Hunter’s] words.”
Prosecutors also showed pictures of drugs to the jury that they got from Hunter’s electronic devices.
Hines also showed text messaged allegedly from Hunter, admitting he was an addict.
“The defendant knew he was an addict” Hines said, citing one text allegedly from Hunter where he called himself “a liar and a thief” as well as a drug user.
Prosecutors also played portions of the audiobook from Biden’s memoir in court, meaning the voice of the defendant was one of the first the jurors’ heard.
Hines said during his opening statement that Hallie Biden, Hunter Biden’s girlfriend who found and threw away his gun, was given a “grant of immunity” to testify in this case about her own past crack cocaine usage. The immunity requires Hallie Biden to testify ���truthfully,” Hines said.
Hines said Hallie Biden “had been a drug user too,” after Hunter “introduced” crack cocaine to her. Hines said Hallie Biden was clean when she found and threw out Hunter’s gun in October 2018.
