Federal prosecutors said cocaine residue was found on a gun Hunter Biden allegedly bought and owned while addicted to drugs, according to court documents.
Special counsel David Weiss, who also serves as U.S. attorney for Delaware, has "overwhelming" evidence to support charges that Biden unlawfully purchased and owned a gun in 2018 while he was addicted to drugs, a Tuesday court filing said.
Weiss' team revealed for the first time that federal investigators pulled Biden's gun from a sealed evidence bag in 2023 and tested what they found to be a powdery white substance on the gun case.
The attorneys said an FBI chemist determined it was cocaine.
"To be clear, investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant kept his gun," the prosecutors wrote, the Washington Examiner reported.
Federal investigators obtained access via search warrant to Hunter Biden's Apple iCloud account in 2019 and, later, to his laptop, according to the prosecutors.
That data contained "photos of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia," messages about dealing drugs, and an admission that he was smoking crack two days after the alleged illegal gun purchase, the Examiner reported.
Four separate court filings were in response to Hunter Biden's attorneys seeking a dismissal of the federal gun charges on the basis of selective and vindictive prosecution, NBC News reported.
Weiss' team called that argument "meritless."
In one filing, the special counsel's lawyers highlighted instances in which President Joe Biden's son admitted to excessive and illicit drug use in 2018 in his memoir.
Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of lying about his drug use in October 2018 on a form to buy a gun that he kept for about 11 days. He has acknowledged struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine during that period in 2018, but his lawyers have said he did not break the law.
Hunter Biden has since said he has stopped using drugs and has worked to turn his life around.
These criminal proceedings could have been avoided with a plea deal last year, but an agreement with federal prosecutors fell apart and now the president's son is facing the spectacle of a trial this year while his father is campaigning. He was indicted after the plea deal broke down when a judge who was supposed to sign off on the agreement instead raised a series of questions about the deal.
He had initially agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax charges and would have also avoided prosecution on the gun charges had he stayed out of trouble for two years. It was the culmination of a yearslong investigation by federal prosecutors into Hunter Biden's business dealings.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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