OAN’s Brooke Mallory
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 1:33 PM
During the federal firearms trial of eldest son Hunter Biden on Wednesday, his ex-wife told jurors her husband “was not his real self” when he used crack cocaine, but was still able to function normally.
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President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, has been described by an ex-girlfriend as an addict who smokes crack cocaine “every 20 minutes.”
The testimony of Kathleen Buhl, 55, and Zoe Kestan, 30, appears to undermine Hunter’s defense team’s contention that Hunter’s outwardly respectable behavior shows he was not experiencing a drug relapse on October 12.NumberThe day in January 2018, he purchased a .38-caliber handgun.
Buhle will be in 2022If We Break Up: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing” she talks about her married life with him.
During about 25 minutes of testimony, Buhl, who was married to Hunter from 1993 to 2017, described the moment she realized he was abusing highly addictive street drugs.
“I found a crack pipe on July 3rd.rd“January 2015 … it was in an ashtray on the side porch of our house,” Buhl said of her discovery at the former couple’s Washington, D.C., mansion.
“I went to find my husband and asked him what it was,” Buhle added. “He said it was a crack pipe. He admitted to smoking crack.”
Noting that Biden’s son had been discharged from the Navy the previous year after testing positive for cocaine, Buhle said he believed Hunter had been using hard drugs before that.
“I was worried and scared,” she continued. “He wasn’t his usual self. He was angry, he had a short temper and he was behaving in ways he didn’t when he was sober.”
Ms Boulet, who has three daughters with Hunter, said she regularly searched his car for hard drugs and paraphernalia to prevent the children finding evidence of Hunter’s troubling secret, and described fears she would be stopped by police if she had drugs or a pipe in her car.
Months after their divorce was finalized, she claimed she continued the habit in 2015 and 2019, finding even more cocaine in Hunter’s car on multiple occasions.
Despite his drug addiction, Hunter was able to work and communicate normally with friends and family, according to Buhle.
She also said he was using drugs and alcohol at the same time.
Later, Hunter’s ex-girlfriend, Kestan, a Brooklyn native, testified under oath how she met Hunter in December 2017 while working part-time at a Manhattan gentlemen’s club and engaging in a 30-minute private dance with another woman, in which Hunter would smoke crack cocaine through a sliding door to a private room while it was open, she said.
Hunter and Kestan reunited at Manhattan’s SoHo Grand Hotel in January 2018. During the five days they spent together, Hunter was smoking crack cocaine “every 20 minutes or so,” Kestan said.
Though Kestan claimed she was merely a “distraction” for Hunter and was trying to help him cut down on some of his regular drug use, she also recalled witnessing Biden using chopsticks and a disassembled pen to clean a crack pipe, and recounting a time Hunter bought a “ping pong ball”-sized amount of drugs from a dealer named Frankie at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Hunter “used the cash for a variety of things and I know a significant amount was used to buy drugs,” Kestan continued.
She pointed to Hunter’s remarkable ability to appear “normal” while high, despite his lawyer, Abe Lowell, arguing the previous day that “there is no such thing as a high-functioning crack addict.”
“I thought, ‘It’s weird that his behavior hasn’t changed,'” Kestan said. “I was really confused because I didn’t see an immediate change in his behavior.”
But Kestan added that she witnessed her husband lose or break his phone at least five or six times during their nine months together.
In cross-examining the trial witness, FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen, early Wednesday, Judge Lowell tried to expose weaknesses in the prosecution’s case against the eldest son, but her counter-attacks fell flat.
Lowell questioned Jensen for nearly 90 minutes, trying to suggest that Hunter was suffering from alcoholism, not drug addiction, when he purchased the weapon.
At one point, the defense tried to argue that Hunter’s gun application was falsified, but the prosecution already had its own evidence to refute both claims.
Lowell presented credit card receipts showing Hunter bought alcohol at least eight times in October 2018 in an attempt to prove that Biden was simply a heavy drinker at the time.
But moments later, Jensen was cross-examined by prosecutor Derek Hines, who rhetorically asked him, “Do drug dealers accept credit cards?”
“Not in my experience,” the agent replied.
When none of Lowell’s other arguments seemed to get through, he argued that someone may have altered the documents after Hunter filled them out and when police used them in their investigation.
Hines questioned Jensen, asking if there was any evidence to suggest the documents may have been altered, to which she replied: “No.”
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