Hunter Biden Tries Again To Discredit Gun Prosecution, Saying Special Counsel Confused Photo of Sawdust With Cocaine

The photograph that the special counsel claimed depicted three lines of cocaine was actually taken by a carpenter.

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Hunter Biden and his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, right, depart a House Oversight Committee meeting on January 10, 2024, at Washington. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

Hunter Biden’s team is once again trying to have the gun charges levied against the first son dropped, this time by claiming Special Counsel David Weiss’s office made a mistake in claiming that a photograph that is obviously of sawdust was actually a picture of powder cocaine. This comes after Mr. Weiss recently disclosed new evidence of the first son’s drug use at the time he purchased a firearm in 2018 and lied about it to a federal agency. 

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