by Jason Cohen at Daily Caller
Attorneys on Monday said prosecutors introducing a trove of Hunter Biden’s communications as evidence will come back to hurt him in his federal gun trial.
Biden’s trial where he is facing three gun charges brought by special counsel David Weiss, including providing false statements and possessing a gun while he was aware of being addicted to drugs, began Monday with jury selection. Florida state attorney Dave Aronberg and former federal prosecutor Michael Zeldin told MSNBC that the president’s son’s “own words” will be used as “compelling evidence” against him. (RELATED: ‘Every Angle… Hurts Joe Biden’: Hunter’s Latest Stunt May Have Thrown His Dad Into A Messy Tangle, Strategists Say)
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“Biden’s own statements, his text messages will come back to haunt him because he did text around the time of buying the gun that he was smoking crack down the street in Wilmington,” Aronberg said. “And so that’s powerful evidence. And when he says,’ you know, I just came out of rehab. I didn’t feel that I was still in the throes of addiction,’ well, your own words at that time will come back to be used against you. So perhaps jury nullification is the best defense they have.”
Prosecutors in May revealed evidence they intend to introduce to substantiate that Biden lied about his drug use on a 2018 federal gun purchase form, including 75 pages of text messages emphasizing his addiction struggles. The messages included in the filing reveal arguments about him quitting drugs, discussing substance use and photos of narcotics or Biden smoking crack.
“I was sleeping on a car smoking crack on 4th street and Rodney,” Biden wrote in an Oct. 14, 2018 message.
“I’m interested in the text messages and…
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