At long last, DOJ confirms key details about Hunter Biden laptop — and reveals what FBI agents found on his gun

Special counsel David Weiss revealed in a new court filing that FBI investigators recently discovered cocaine on the handgun that Hunter Biden allegedly purchased illegally in 2018.

The new detail was included in Weiss' response to Hunter Biden's motion asking a federal judge to dismiss the felony firearm charges that he faces for allegedly lying about his drug use when purchasing a revolver in October 2018. The first son's legal team has claimed Hunter is the victim of a selective and vindictive prosecution.

Weiss and his team of prosecutors address that claim in their filing. But they also go to painstaking lengths to explain why the preponderance of evidence against Hunter is so "overwhelming" that it would be legal malfeasance to dismiss an airtight case.

For example, Weiss explained:

In 2023, FBI investigators pulled sealed evidence from the state police vault to take photographs of the defendant’s firearm. After opening the evidence, FBI investigators observed a white powdery substance on the defendant’s brown leather pouch that had held the defendant’s firearm in October 2018. Based on their training and experience, investigators believed that this substance was likely cocaine and that this evidence would corroborate the messages that investigators had obtained which showed the defendant buying and using drugs in October 2018. An FBI chemist subsequently analyzed the residue and determined that it was cocaine.

"To be clear, investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant had kept his gun," he emphasized.

The filing is also significant because Weiss confirmed — for the first time — the legitimacy of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop that Biden defenders claimed was Russian disinformation before the 2020 election.

Weiss explained:

In August 2019, IRS and FBI investigators obtained a search warrant for tax violations for the defendant’s Apple iCloud account. In response to that warrant, in September 2019, Apple produced backups of data from various of the defendant’s electronic devices that he had backed up to his iCloud account. Investigators also later came into possession of the defendant’s Apple MacBook Pro, which he had left at a computer store. A search warrant was also obtained for his laptop and the results of the search were largely duplicative of information investigators had already obtained from Apple.

Regarding Hunter's claim that he is a victim of selective prosecution and right-wing bias, Weiss denounced the assertion as a "conspiracy theory."

"Left with the inconvenient truth of trying to explain how this could happen during the Biden Administration, the defendant suggests that evil motives are lurking deep within the Department of Justice," Weiss wrote. "This theory is a fiction designed for a Hollywood script."

"The charges in this case are not trumped up or because of former President Trump — they are instead a result of the defendant’s own choices and were brought in spite of, not because of, any outside noise made by politicians," Weiss said.

Hunter will likely go to trial in the case later this year. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

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