ess than a week after a New York jury convicted former President Donald Trump, another historic trial is set to begin in Wilmington, Delaware. Hunter Biden’s trial on federal gun charges is scheduled to start on Monday, June 3, the first criminal trial of the child of a sitting U.S.
President. He’s charged with felony firearm offenses stemming from a gun purchase in 2018, during a period he has said he was struggling with drug addiction. He’s pleaded not guilty.
The trial is expected to last for up to two weeks and comes at a moment when his father President Joe Biden is locked in a close race for the presidency with Trump, who was found in a Manhattan fraud case. Here’s what to know about the Hunter Biden trial. The Justice Department has charged Hunter Biden with unlawfully purchasing a revolver while using illicit drugs and lying on both a federal form and to a firearms dealer about his drug use when he purchased the weapon in October 2018.
He has publicly admitted that he was during that period. “All my energy revolved around smoking drugs and making arrangements to buy drugs — feeding the beast,” he wrote in his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things.” Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his lawyers have filed several motions to dismiss the case.
During the trial, federal prosecutors are planning to present photos, testimony, and messages to show that Hunter Biden was using illegal drugs at the time he purchased a Colt Cobra 38SPL and failed .