Hunter Biden T-shirt-wearing lawyers Abe Lowell and Kevin Morris were evacuated from a luxury hotel in Wilmington, Delaware, after a fire alarm went off Wednesday night, hours after a hearing in the eldest son’s federal firearms trial concluded.
At 9:30 p.m., a shrill alarm rang out throughout the downtown Hotel DuPont, forcing trial witnesses and dozens of other guests from their rooms and down the fire escape.
Hunter and his wife, Melissa Cohen, had been hunkered down in a $400-a-night hotel this week, but they were nowhere to be seen among the throngs of evacuees standing in the rain outside the 111-year-old building.
Asked by The Washington Post whether the couple had been removed by the Secret Service, Morris declined to comment.
Evacuees were led through a tunnel to the adjacent DECO food hall while firefighters worked to extinguish smoke believed to be coming from DuPont’s kitchen.
By 10:20 p.m., the emergency had been contained and guests returned to their rooms and the hotel bar.
The Wilmington Fire Department did not respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment.
A person who answered a phone number listed on the hotel’s website told The Post that they were not at the hotel and were unaware of the fire.
The 53-year-old elder son’s trial resumes at 9 a.m. Thursday, when jurors will continue to hear testimony from Gordon Cleveland, an employee at the Delaware gun store where Hunter bought a .38-caliber revolver while struggling with a crack cocaine addiction.
Hunter is accused of making false statements about his illegal drug use on federal documents when he purchased the firearms.
If convicted on the three felony counts, he faces up to 25 years in prison.
