Wilmington, Del. — During his opening statement in Hunter Biden’s trial on Tuesday, prosecutor Derek Hines painted a damning picture of the life Hunter was leading around the time he allegedly illegally purchased a handgun in Delaware, telling jurors that they would be presented with “overwhelming evidence” that the first son was actively addicted to crack cocaine at the time and that he knew he was lying when he said otherwise on a federal gun-purchase background-check form.
Drawing on Hunter’s own account of his struggles with addiction, laid out in his memoir Beautiful Things, as well as text messages and photos obtained from his abandoned laptop, Hines explained that Hunter was clearly still addicted to crack when he entered StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply in his hometown of Wilmington in October 2018 and purchased a .38 caliber Colt Cobra revolver — after attesting on a federal background-check form that he was not a user of illegal drugs.
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