Hunter Biden’s first conviction in Delaware was thrown away when he discovered he was addicted to illegal drugs, but never admitted his drug use

Prosecutors said that Hunter Biden lied on the federal form every gun purchaser is required to fill out when he declared that he was not using or addicted to illegal drugs.

Hunter Biden stated that he was more grateful for the love and support he received from his family, friends, and community than he was disappointed by the outcome.

It centers on the Colt revolver that the president’s son bought at a gun store in Wilmington, Delaware in October 2018. It was thrown away in a trash can outside a grocery store 11 days later.

In the course of the trial, the prosecutors tried to get the jury to believe that Hunter lied when he said he didn’t know about his drug use, and that he knew about his drug use.

Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden’s ex- wife, and an ex-girlfriend of his brother Beau Biden were among the witnesses called by prosecutors.

A subpoenaed witness told the jury about first discovering her husband’s drug use when she discovered a crack pipe on the porch after 22 years of marriage. The couple divorced in 2017.

Hunter Biden smoked crack cocaine and purchased it from drug dealers as well as being witnessed by Kestan and Hallie Biden, who were granted immunity to testify, they told jurors. Kestan also testified that she was with the president’s son in 2018 when he was cooking his own crack from powder cocaine.

Hunter Biden’s legal case is, at its root, a story about the toxic, careless choices made by a drug addict. This is about how addiction can ruin the lives of people around them and affect the lives of those around them. Addicts think about themselves more than other people. They lie to give their addiction.

That includes two text messages that he sent just days after he bought the gun. In one, he says he’s waiting for a dealer named Mookie, and in another he says he was “sleeping on a car smoking crack.”

Throughout the trial, Lowell tried to focus the jury’s attention on a narrow period of time—the 11 days Hunter Biden owned the gun before Hallie Biden found it and threw it in a trash can outside a Wilmington grocery store.

The drug texts the government did produce dating to the period Hunter Biden owned the gun Lowell tried to diffuse as nothing more than facetious messages his client sent to Hallie Biden.

What if he had given up on methamphetamines after taking the illegal drug tason? I’m sorry I didn’t tell you!

I was addicted to amphetamines when I was a teenager. I went into the doctors’ offices and lied about taking amphetamines as well as methamphetamine, even though I had previously taken methamphetamine and prescription amphetamines. When I used cocaine, I got behind the wheel and traveled home up a winding, difficult canyon road, where I couldn’t imagine that I’d kill myself or someone else.

Some have focused on the fact that if he had just agreed to a more modest plea deal, he could have lessened his family’s pain by sparing everyone this very public trial. Maybe. Too much selfishness and not enough dedication will lead to many wrong roads, even if the addiction has loosened its grip.