Hunter Biden gun trial live: Updates as jury selection begins in historic case of president’s son

Welcome to DailyMail.com’s live daily politics blog, with updates from hunter bidenThe firearms trial in Delaware.

President’s scandal-plagued son to appear in court for jury selection just days later donald trump was convicted of all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the Manhattan hush money case.

Hunter is accused of lying about his drug use when he purchased a gun and could face up to 25 years in federal prison if convicted on all three charges.

Here’s a summary of all the evidence federal prosecutors plan to use.

Hunter Biden arrived at court with his wife Melissa Cohen for jury selection in his historic gun trial.

The president’s son entered the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, without addressing the waiting media.

Upon entering the building, he was hugged by two men who appeared to be part of his entourage.

A security guard asked him if he had any computers or cables with him, to which he replied: “No.”

He placed his wallet on a table and then went through a scanner.

The government said it has videos and photographs of Hunter Biden smoking crack cocaine or carrying drug paraphernalia, as well as messages sent to alleged street dealers arranging drug buys.

The evidence was collected from Biden’s iCloud account, laptop and phone messages, prosecutors said.

The government said it could call Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, and other romantic partners to describe his addiction at the time of purchasing and possessing the gun.

Prosecutors said they plan to present excerpts from Biden’s 2021 book, Beautiful Things, in which he describes himself as a “crack addict” with no plans beyond “the moment-by-moment demands of the crack pipe.”

Releasing the audio recording of Joe Biden’s clumsy interview with special counsel Robert Hur would make false accounts more credible, the Justice Department said.

The White House is waging a rearguard action to keep the tape secret after Hur described the president as an “old man with a bad memory” during his investigation into the mishandling of classified documents.

A transcript revealed that the president forgot the year his son Beau died, when Trump was elected, and said “I don’t remember,” “I don’t remember,” and “I don’t have a damn idea” more than 100 times while doing crack. jokes and car noises.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is preparing for a COVID grilling today in Congress after damning testimony from a January interview was revealed.

Republicans plan to question him about the COVID restrictions he put in place that he admitted didn’t do much to “slow the spread” of the virus.

He also admitted that he “invented” the six-foot social distancing rule and other measures to “protect” Americans.

Here are other explosive takeaways from his testimony as he prepares to face lawmakers at the Capitol.