Hunter Biden defense team tells prosecutors they should go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings

Hunter Biden's defense team struck back at prosecutors who alleged that the president's son had been using illegal drugs while buying and owning a firearm.

While the prosecution alleged Biden's memoir was essentially a confession where he told stories about drug use and even the use of a firearm in a drug deal, the defense attorneys rejected the assertion in a footnote while suggesting federal prosecutors should attend a narcotics or alcohol addiction meeting.

"Perhaps the prosecution should visit an Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous meeting, where they will find that the sort of stories Mr. Biden recounts in his memoir are common," defense attorney Abbe David Lowell wrote, according to Just the News. "These stories are not told to gloat. Acknowledging the depraved actions that they have taken while in the throes of addiction and acknowledging responsibility for them is part of the healing process," the defense team added.

The book, "Beautiful Things: A Memoir," was alleged by prosecutors to have revealed evidence that not only was Biden using illegal drugs when he purchased and owned a firearm, but also evidence of cocaine where he stored his gun.

"After the defendant’s then-girlfriend discovered and discarded his gun, and after he became aware that local authorities had seized his gun, speed loader, and ammunition, and after the defendant announced his awareness of a federal investigation of him in 2020, the defendant chose to author and sell a book in 2021 in which he made countless incriminating statements about his years-long drug usage, including during the time period he purchased and possessed the gun," prosecutors claimed in court filings.

"He recounted his interaction with a drug dealer who pointed a gun at him during a drug deal before he decided to buy his own gun," they added.

The prosecution also referred to Biden allegedly "buying thousands of dollars' worth of crack" while he infamously took video of himself "weighing crack and smoking it."

The legal team also stated that a chemist was able to "confirm the presence of cocaine residue on the brown leather pouch" where Biden allegedly stored his firearm.

In 2023, Biden revealed during a court appearance that he had been to rehab facilities six times since 2003. The Daily Mail noted that on his way to a Sedona, Arizona, facility, he was smoking crack all the way there. He only stayed for a week.

In 2022, the Sun posted video of the president's son appearing to smoke "drugs" while drinking alcohol.

In 2021, Biden was allegedly heard on audio recordings from his laptop boasting that he "smoked crack" with the former mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Barry.

"Mr. Biden has been proudly sober four years now," his defense team asserted. "A fact the prosecution conveniently omits when it revels in discussing the more salacious details of his history of drug use."

Biden's attorney also alleged that Republicans had interfered with the Department of Justice, prompting gun charges against him.

Biden was charged with two counts related to allegedly lying on a form; attesting that he was not on illegal drugs when he bought a Colt Cobra 38SPL in October 2018, while the third count alleged that he possessed a firearm while using illegal drugs.

He faces a possible total of 15 years in prison if found guilty on all counts.

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