"Overwhelming evidence": Hunter Biden's gun holster had cocaine residue, prosecutors in his case reveal
The finding was presented to a judge to reject the president's son's legal efforts to dismiss federal charges against him.
Hunter Biden | (Cordon Press)
Another scandal falls on Hunter Biden's men. This Tuesday, Justice Department prosecutors revealed before a judge that the holster where the president's son kept his gun had cocaine residue, according to an FBI laboratory analysis.
The finding was filed after Hunter Biden's legal team sought to dismiss charges of unlawful possession of firearms after lying on a criminal background check in Delaware.
Special counsel David Weiss's team, citing positive tests for cocaine, said the evidence against Hunter Biden was "overwhelming" and rejected claims that the president's son was being charged for political reasons.
According to prosecutors, the traces of cocaine found in the gun holster are sufficient evidence to confirm that Hunter Biden was using illicit drugs at the time he completed a background check to purchase the gun and claimed that he was not addicted to any illicit substance, which amounts to a federal crime.
Prosecutors explained to the judge that in 2023, officers removed Hunter Biden's sealed Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver from a state police vault to photograph the weapon. At that time, they found the holster with the cocaine.
"An FBI chemist subsequently analyzed the residue and determined that it was cocaine," the 52-page document said.
"To be clear," the prosecutors' motion reads, "investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant had kept his gun."
Prosecutors, in addition to the cocaine found in the gun holster, also referred to the book published by Hunter Biden, "Beautiful Things," where the president's son described himself as an active user of illicit substances.
According to the Prosecutor's motion, Hunter Biden "made countless incriminating statements about his years-long drug usage."
"The defendant's choice to sell a book containing these admissions not only made the government's case against him stronger but also increased a potential prosecution's general deterrence value," they ruled.
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