Hunter Biden’s lawyer disputed a photo included in last week’s special counsel filing, saying it was sawdust, not cocaine, as previously described.
The photo in question was one of several allegedly taken of the president’s son abusing drugs. The Justice Department last week included a photo in a court filing to prove Hunter Biden was addicted to drugs when he said “no” to drug use on his gun application, a violation of federal law. Ta.
Photos on Hunter Biden’s iPhone showed images of cocaine, crack cocaine, and the drug paraphanera. (Ministry of Justice)
Hunter Biden’s lawyer said one of the photos was taken in the office of then-psychiatrist Dr. Keith Abloh. Mr. Biden’s lawyer said Mr. Abloh received the photo from a “mastermind” who was a “coke addict.”
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Biden’s lawyers said in a court filing that the message accompanying the photo was intended to tell the younger Biden that “you can overcome any addiction.”
Biden’s lawyers said it was “reckless” for prosecutors to “make such exaggerated and sensational claims in public documents” and that the move would certainly “prejudice Biden in the public eye.” Stated.
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“Mistaking sawdust for cocaine sounds more like the storyline of a 1980s police academy comedy than what you would expect from a high-profile prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice,” Biden’s lawyers wrote in a court filing. It sounds like,” he said.
FOX News Digital has reached out to the Department of Justice for comment.
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, leaves a meeting of the House Oversight Committee at the Capitol on January 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
The president’s son has pleaded not guilty. federal gun charges In October, a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware accused him of lying about drug use on a gun purchase form in October 2018.
He previously admitted that he struggled with a crack cocaine addiction for a period in 2018, but his lawyers said he had not broken any laws. Hunter Biden has since said he has stopped using drugs and is working to turn his life around.
Late Tuesday, Hunter Biden filed a motion in a Los Angeles court asking for the tax charges against him to be dismissed. In a court filing, Biden claimed immunity from prosecution under a now-abandoned diversion agreement.
He said David Weiss was illegally appointed as special counsel, that funds were not appropriated by Congress, that he has been “subject to selective and vindictive prosecution,” and that the IRS has committed “outrageous conduct.” claimed to be doing so.
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Tuesday’s court filing alleges that special counsel David Weiss gave millions of dollars to Joe Biden and his son in return for helping fire a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. This comes after an FBI informant was charged with giving false information, claiming he had been paid to do so.
Fox News’ David Spunt and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
