Hunter Biden ‘s federal trial on three gun-related charges kicked off in Delaware this week. The government alleges that the president’s son lied about his drug use on a form to buy a gun, and thus obtained the firearm illegally. On Wednesday, prosecutors called two of Biden’s exes — including Kathleen Buhle, to whom he was married for 20 years — to testify about his drug use.
Buhle, who was married to Biden from 1993 to 2017, said that from 2015 to 2019 she would often search Biden’s car and found drugs or drug paraphernalia at least a dozen times, according to Politico . Biden and Buhle have three children together, and Buhle said she searched his car because he would often let their daughters use it. Buhle said she first discovered Biden was using drugs in 2015, and that he “acknowledged smoking crack.
” Biden’s brother Beau died of brain cancer in May of that year. Zoe Kestan, who was dating Biden in the months before he purchased the gun in 2018, also testified on Wednesday. “He would want to smoke as soon as he woke up,” she said, according to Reuters .
Kestan noted that Biden would smoke crack frequently, and the jury was shown images from her phone of drug paraphernalia, including one of Biden in a hot tub with a crack pipe. Biden has publicly acknowledged his drug addiction, including in his memoir Beautiful Things , but pleaded not guilty to the three charges. His lawyer Abbe Lowell has argued that Biden had come out of rehab and was not addicte.
