Hunter Biden is on trial in Delaware on charges stemming from a federal investigation into suspected firearms violations.
After the jury was selected on Monday, prosecutors from Special Counsel David Weiss’s office and Abe Lowell, a lawyer for Biden, delivered opening statements. Biden has pleaded not guilty to federal firearms charges.
After a years-long investigation, Judge Weiss indicted Biden on charges of making a false statement regarding the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement regarding information required to be kept by a licensed firearms dealer, and possessing a firearm by an unlawful user or addict of a controlled substance.
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Hunter Biden arrives at the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
On Tuesday morning, the prosecution presented a list of witnesses who may be called to testify, including:
1. FBI Agent Erica Jensen
The first prosecution witness to be sworn in on Tuesday was FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen. Prosecutors said in court filings that Jensen plans to present evidence including text messages and confessions from his autobiography, “Beautiful Things,” that the government argues show Biden was using illegal drugs at the time he purchased the firearms.
According to Biden’s indictment, he certified on a federally required form that he was “not an unlawful user of, or addicted to, any stimulants, narcotics or other controlled substances,” when in fact he knew that statement was false and fictitious.
2. Kathleen Buhl
Kathleen Buhl poses for a photo with her ex-husband Hunter Biden at the World Food Programme USA’s annual McGovern Dole Leadership Awards ceremony at the Organization of American States in Washington, DC on April 12, 2016. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images, courtesy of World Food Programme USA)
Biden and Kathleen Beaulieu were married from 1993 to 2017. Beaulieu has spoken publicly about Biden’s drug addiction and his many affairs, including with his sister-in-law and widow of his late brother Beau, Hallie Biden, who has also appeared as a prosecution witness. Beaulieu detailed her difficult marriage to Biden in her 2022 memoir, “If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing.”
Prosecutors said Buhl searched Biden’s car throughout 2018 because she “didn’t want his children to be in a car with drugs in it.” She found drugs or drug paraphernalia about 10 times, according to court documents. Prosecutors said a 2018 text message with Biden included, “I also found some crack pipes. My daughter was driving so I took them out.”
3. Zoe Kestan
Zoe Kestan, another former girlfriend of Biden, is expected to highlight her son’s crack cocaine use “every 20 minutes except when he was asleep.” Prosecutors say Kestan visited Biden in Massachusetts in the fall of 2018 while he was in rehab after purchasing a gun and witnessed his drug use.
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4. Harry Biden
Hallie Biden (right) is pictured with her late husband, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, celebrating his 2010 reelection. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Prosecutors also plan to call Biden’s sister-in-law, Hallie Biden, to testify about his drug use. The two were romantically involved in 2018. Prosecutors say Hallie Biden witnessed Hunter using drugs on multiple occasions, and that she and her children were found to have drug paraphernalia and drugs in their possession when they searched Hunter’s bag, backpack and car to help him get sober.
Hallie Biden, identified as Witness No. 3, “observed the defendant frequently losing and replacing his cell phone, which may explain the gaps in time when no messages were left, and also exchanged various text messages with the defendant,” the prosecution said.
5. Gordon Cleveland
Gordon Cleveland, an employee of StarQuest Shooters and Survival Supply in Wilmington, Delaware, who sold the guns to Biden, is expected to be called to testify that Biden purchased a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver, an HKS speedloader chambered in .38 Special, and 25 rounds of Hornady “American Gunner” ammunition.
Cleveland is expected to tell jurors that Biden filled out a federally required background check, ATF Form 4473, which asked if he was a current unlawful user of or addicted to any opiates, stimulants, narcotics or other controlled substances, and that Biden lied and answered “no.” Prosecutors said if Biden had answered “yes,” gun dealers would not have been able to sell him guns.
Hunter Biden’s federal gun crime trial begins with jury selection
A courtroom sketch depicts Hunter Biden’s appearance in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, Monday, June 3, 2024, as the first day of jury selection begins in Biden’s trial on firearms-related charges. (William J. Hennessy Jr.)
6. Delaware State Police Joshua Marley
Delaware State Police Corporal Joshua Murray is expected to testify about the response to the incident at Janssen’s Market, Biden’s confession and the evidence recovered, according to prosecutors.
The gun Biden purchased was found in a trash can outside a Janssen’s Market grocery store in Greenville, Delaware in 2018. According to a police report, Hallie Biden allegedly took Hunter’s gun and threw it in a trash can behind the store across from a high school. She later returned to the store and found the gun missing, according to Politico.
7. Lt. Millard Greer, Delaware State Police
Former Delaware State Police Inspector Millard Greer is expected to testify about recovering the gun, ammunition, a speed loader and a brown leather pouch from a man who found them in a trash can at Janssen’s Market, according to prosecutors.
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President Biden (left) and Hunter Biden watch the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
8. DEA Supervisory Special Agent Joshua Romig
Prosecutors may call DEA Supervisory Special Agent Joshua Romig as an expert witness about “coded messages” allegedly sent by Biden that would attest to Biden’s drug use and bolster the government’s case that Biden lied on federal gun control applications.
9. Dr. Jason Brewer
Prosecutors said forensic chemist Dr. Jason Brewer will be questioned about his analysis of a brown leather pouch allegedly belonging to Biden and his opinion, based on testing and evidence, that the residue contained therein is cocaine.
Fox News’ Aubrey Spady contributed to this report.
