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The legal team representing Hunter Biden claims that a photo on his phone, previously thought to depict cocaine, actually shows sawdust.
The photo in question was included in a special counsel document last week and used as evidence to support claims that Biden was addicted to drugs despite attesting to no record of firearms transactions in 2018 .
President Joe Biden’s son has been indicted on three felony charges for falsifying information on a background check to purchase a firearm.
Hunter’s lawyers argued in a Delaware federal court filing that prosecutors largely misinterpreted one piece of evidence: a photo taken in the office of Biden’s then-psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Ablow.
Ablow, they said, had sent the image to his patient to show “sawdust lines sent to me by a master carpenter who was a cocaine addict” in an attempt “to convey that Mr. Biden, too, could overcome any addiction.”
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Hunter Biden sawdust image
The image in question, in fact, appears to be sawdust.
“Confusing sawdust with cocaine seems more like a plot from one of the 1980s Police Academy comedies than what one should expect in a high-profile prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice,” they argue Hunter Biden’s lawyers.
The prosecutor’s statement appears to suggest they made a mistake by including the image among many that they say show “apparent cocaine, crack and drug paraphernalia.”
While obviously rather embarrassing on the part of Special Prosecutor David Weiss, Hunter’s lawyers make no such defense regarding the other images which clearly show crack and cocaine.
“Our motions show that the special prosecutor went to great lengths to pursue charges against Mr. Biden that would not have been brought against anyone else,” Abbe Lowell, one of Hunter’s lawyers, said in a statement.
“It is time to hold the special prosecutor accountable and dismiss these improper charges,” he added.
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He SMOKED the Parmigiano Reggiano
Is this a case where prosecutors knew that Hunter’s drug use was so extensive that even the image of lines of sawdust, on a table saw, seemed like a logical assumption that it was cocaine?
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders why the special prosecutor included this as evidence. It’s the kind of gaffe that can get a case dismissed, just as Hunter’s team hopes.
Then again, their customer Done admit that you have already smoked parmesan. There’s a good chance that when Ablow sent him the photo of the sawdust, he started drooling.
“I’ve probably smoked more parmesan than anyone…anyone you know Tracy.”
-Hunter Biden pic.twitter.com/ghHWWW2BRo
– Fauci Earnings (@DschlopesIsBack) May 7, 2023
Weiss said in his court filing that “investigators literally found drugs in the bag where the defendant had kept the gun” and Hunter’s 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” had “made countless incriminating statements about his use of drugs that lasted years.”
Weiss also said his office shared more than 1 million pages of documents in two federal indictments: one alleging he made false statements on the weapons form and another alleging he evaded $1.4 million in payments tax.
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 appeared on his much-maligned laptop.
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