The trial of Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, has begun.
Hunter Biden has been charged with three felonies over whether
he lied on a federal form and if convicted, faces
up to 25 years in prison.
Hunter Biden once had a crippling addiction to crack cocaine
that was so bad he used to wander around homeless
encampments looking for drugs.
Back in 2018, Hunter Biden purchased a gun in Delaware
and one of the questions on the gun purchasing paperwork
asked if he was an unlawful user of or addicted
to illegal drugs and he answered no.
Now he claims he was clean and sober at the
moment he filled out the form because he had just
completed an 11 day rehab program.
But that's where the now infamous Hunter Biden's laptop comes
in.
In 2019, Hunter Biden brought his laptop to a computer
repair store and never retrieved it.
A worker at that repair shop contacted Rudy Giuliani, who
was Trump's lawyer at the time, and provided him with
materials from the laptop that Giuliani later gave to the
New York Post to publish in October of 2020.
Prosecutors are going to be pulling evidence from this laptop
and Hunter's own memoir to illustrate his addiction timeline.
The case hangs on whether Hunter Biden can persuade a
jury that he wasn't on drugs the day he bought
the gun and didn't consider himself an addict.