Jurors at Hunter Biden's trial for allegedly buying a handgun while using crack cocaine heard testimony Wednesday from his ex-wife who recalled finding a crack pipe in their family home. On Tuesday the court heard that Hunter Biden -- the first child of a sitting US president to be prosecuted -- was a heavy drug user and allegedly lied about this on the paperwork when purchasing the firearm. Hunter Biden's ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, described discovering the implement for smoking the drug in the side porch of their home in 2015 and later worrying their daughter might stumble upon it.
They divorced in 2017, heard the federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, the Biden family's political heartland. Hunter Biden is also charged with illegal possession of the firearm, which he had for just 11 days in October 2018, in addition to making false statements about his drug status when purchasing it. Earlier FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen testified how investigators retrieved evidence, including photographs apparently showing drugs, from a now infamous abandoned laptop that has been at the heart of Republican efforts to discredit the Biden family.
The court also heard from Zoe Kestan with whom Hunter Biden had a relationship with in 2017 and 2018, recalling that he was smoking crack "every 20 minutes or so." Prosecutors showed the jury images of her with Hunter Biden who was seen holding a glass pipe in his hand. First Lady Jill Biden was again in court Wednesday, as she has been for every d.
