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The legal team representing Hunter Biden claims that a photo on his phone, which was previously thought to depict cocaine, actually shows sawdust.
The photo in question was included in the attorney's private file last week and was used as evidence to support claims that Biden was addicted to drugs despite his testimony that he was not on a firearms transaction registry in 2018.
President Joe Biden's son has been charged with three felony counts of falsifying information during a background check to purchase a firearm.
Hunter's lawyers argued in a lawsuit in federal court in Delaware that prosecutors grossly misinterpreted one piece of evidence — a photo taken in the office of Biden's then-psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Ablow.
They said Ablow sent the photo to his patient to show “lines of sawdust sent to me by a skilled carpenter who was addicted to Coke” in an attempt to “convey that Mr. Biden, too, can overcome any addiction.”
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Photo of Hunter Biden Sawdust
In fact, the image in question looks like sawdust.
Hunter Biden's lawyers assert that “mixing sawdust and cocaine sounds more like a story out of an 1980s police academy comedy than it should be expected in a high-profile prosecution by the US Department of Justice.”
Prosecutors' court filing appears to indicate they made a mistake, including the photo among several they say show “obvious cocaine, crack cocaine, and drug paraphernalia.”
While private attorney David Weiss was clearly deeply embarrassed, Hunter's attorneys offered no such defense regarding other photos that clearly showed cocaine.
“Our motions reveal that the special counsel went to great lengths to bring charges against Mr. Biden that could not have been brought against anyone else,” Abby Lowell, one of Hunter’s attorneys, said in a statement.
She added: “It is time to hold the private investigator accountable and drop these unfounded accusations.”
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He smoked parmesan cheese
Is this a case in which prosecutors knew Hunter's drug use was so extensive that even a picture of sawdust lines, on a table saw, seemed like a reasonable assumption that it was cocaine?
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders why the special counsel included it as evidence. It's the kind of mistake that could lead to the case being dismissed, just as Hunter's team hopes.
Then again, their client an act Admit that you've smoked Parmesan cheese before. There's a very good chance that when Ablow sent him a photo of sawdust, he started drooling.
“I've probably smoked more Parmesan than anyone… anyone Tracy knows.”
-Hunter Biden pic.twitter.com/ghHWWW2BRo
– Gain Fossie (DschlopesIsBack) May 7, 2023
Weiss stated in his court filing that “investigators literally found drugs in the bag in which the defendant kept his gun,” and that Hunter’s 2021 private memoir “Beautiful Things” had “made countless incriminating statements about his drug use over the years.” .
Weiss also stated that his office shared more than 1 million pages of documents across two federal indictments — one indicating he made false statements on the gun model and another indicating he evaded $1.4 million in tax payments.
Biden was discharged from the Navy Reserve after failing a cocaine test and has an open and well-documented history of drug use, videos of which have surfaced on his slandered laptop.
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