Hunter Biden Trial Day 2: Lawyers offer dueling narratives of addiction and recovery in opening statements

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Hunter Biden Trial Day 2: Lawyers offer dueling narratives of addiction and recovery in opening statements
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Katherine Doyle is a White House reporter for NBC News.

WILMINGTON — In a cadence that at times evoked a fish gasping for air, a lead prosecutor for the special counsel, Derek Hines, worked to hammer into place on Tuesday the government’s narrative that Hunter Biden was a high-functioning drug addict who lied to friends and family and ultimately broke the law when he checked a box on a government background check form that he was not a drug user during the purchase of a handgun in 2018.

waiting for a dealer named Mookie,” and a day later, that he was “sleeping on a car smoking crack on 4th Street and Rodney,” it was because the relationship had frayed and, Lowell implied, not that he was necessarily doing those things. Lowell also explained that it was not unusual for Hunter to withdraw large sums of cash. And he worked to distance Biden from prosecutors’ discovery of cocaine on the pouch in which the gun was discovered.

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