Hunter Biden was not on the witness stand, but his voice filled the courtroom. In the opening day of Biden’s trial on gun charges Tuesday, federal prosecutors projected page after page of his 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things,” while playing an audiobook of his voice narrating the gritty years of his crack cocaine abuse. Jurors heard the president’s son describe how he developed a crack habit and learned to cook the drug, which he wrote takes you “into the darkest recesses of your soul, as well as the darkest corners of the community.
” In graphic detail, Biden spoke of dangerous drug deals in Los Angeles’ Skid Row, driving while high and his time as a “bloodhound” chasing crack in Nashville. His superpower, he wrote, was procuring crack anywhere, shelling out tens of thousands of dollars while taking up residence in a string of L.A.
luxury hotels, as well as budget motels dotting the East Coast. “I could get off a plane in Timbuktu and score a bag of crack,” he wrote. The president’s son, 54, sat stoic during the airing of his words while First Lady Jill Biden sat in the front row beside her daughter, Ashley, and his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, along with a coterie of relatives and supporters, including L.
A. lawyer Kevin Morris. Some in the court grew emotional, with Ashley Biden appearing to dab tears and her mother reaching an arm around her.
The harrowing recounting of Hunter Biden’s descent fueled by drugs and alcohol bore out federal prosecutors’ .
