In a ten-page court filing, the DOJ shared new images and text messages by Hunter Biden related to cocaine before and after he purchased a firearm on October 12, 2018. He captured the photos in April, November, and December 2018, according to the DOJ’s latest exhibit of evidence.
“Prior to October 12, 2018 (the date of the gun purchase), the defendant took photos of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia on his phone,” the filing reads. “Also prior to his gun purchase, the defendant routinely sent messages about purchasing drugs.”
“During November and December 2018, the defendant took multiple photographs of . . . apparent cocaine, crack cocaine, and drug paraphernalia,” it adds.
As for the newly revealed texts, Hunter Biden “messaged his girlfriend about meeting a drug dealer and smoking crack” on October 13 and 14, 2018, the document states. His sister-in-law-turned-girlfriend, Hallie Biden, then discarded the firearm eleven days after his purchase on October 23, 2018.
In November and December 2018, he repeatedly acknowledged that he is “an addict” to his then-girlfriend and two other people. “I’ll [f***ing] get sober when I want to get [f***ing] sober,” his December 28, 2018 text to Person 2 reads.
This admission contradicts the claim he made on a background-check form from a federally licensed firearms dealer that he was not addicted to drugs at the time.
In October 2023, nearly a month after he was indicted, President Joe Biden’s son pleaded not guilty to three federal gun charges. During the summer before, his plea deal with prosecutors had collapsed because of the judge’s line of questioning about the agreement. If the deal had gone through, the younger Biden would have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor tax charges in exchange for the gun charges being dropped.
This article was originally published by the National Review.