Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial has begun. This is what the case hinges on

“I was sleeping on a car smoking crack.”

That’s what Hunter Biden texted Hallie Biden two days after he purchased a firearm in Wilmington, Delaware.

Prosecutor Derek Hines shared text messages with the jury obtained from Biden’s laptop, in which Biden scolded Hallie Biden, his former girlfriend and the widow of his brother Beau Biden.

Calling her “insane,” he asked her to say if she took the handgun that the defense said was located in a lockbox in Biden’s Ford pickup truck.

“This is no game. And you’re being totally irresponsible and unhinged,” Biden wrote.

“Did you take that from me, Hallie?” he asked.

“I’m sorry, I just want you to be safe, this is not safe,” she said.

A seemingly relaxed Biden was seen laughing with defense attorney Abbe Lowell before the proceedings began in the wooded courtroom in downtown Wilmington on Tuesday.

The question at hand is if Biden lied on a form when he bought the gun, asserting that he wasn’t using drugs at that time. He only had the gun for 11 days before Hallie Biden discarded it behind a grocery store.

Biden told Hallie Biden to go back to the store and retrieve the firearm, but when she got there, it was gone. Police were called to the scene and a man looking for recyclables in the trash was identified as the person having removed it.

The prosecution and the defense in the federal gun charges agree on one thing: The president’s son struggles with substance abuse.

What’s disputed is whether he was actively using drugs when he bought a gun on 12 October 2018.

The prosecution used extensive excerpts from Biden’s 2021 memoir Beautiful Things to argue that he was. The defense says he didn’t knowingly break the law as Biden didn’t think he was actively using at the time.

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