Hunter Biden Lawyers Question Ex-Wife, Girlfriend on Drug Use

June 5, 2024, 9:23 PM UTC

On a day highlighted by testimony from Hunter Biden’s ex-wife and a former girlfriend, his defense lawyer tried to question if key witnesses at the criminal trial in Delaware specifically knew whether the president’s son was under the influence of drugs when he bought a gun.

In questioning of government witnesses Wednesday, defense attorney Abbe Lowell tried to raise doubts for jurors who must decide whether Biden, 54, illegally purchased a gun in October 2018 while in the throes of drug addiction and lied about it on a form he signed to purchase the weapon.

Hunter Biden Trial Exhibit
Source: U.S. District Court of Delaware

In particular, Lowell ...

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