(5 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wilmington, Delaware – 5 June 2024
1. Various of Hunter Biden departing federal court with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press:
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“Today is the second day of trial for Hunter Biden here today in Wilmington, Delaware. And the jury heard pretty compelling testimony from two witnesses, the first being ex-wife of Hunter Biden named Kathleen, and Zoe Kestan, who is a woman who he met in New York City and dated for several months around the time that he bought the gun at the center of this case here.”
3. STILL of Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife departs from federal court (ID:24157641434554)
4. SILL of Zoe Kestan departs from federal court (ID: 24157683323654)
5. STILL of Zoe Kestan departs from federal court (ID: 24157683336887)
6. STILL of Gordon Cleveland departs from federal court (ID: 24157758113596)
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press:
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“Third and last witness today was Gordon Cleveland, who was the gun store clerk or employee who sold the gun to Hunter Biden at the center of this case. Again, remember, he’s charged with lying on a form that he filled out when he said that he was not an active user of, or active drug abuser. Mr. Cleveland remembered seeing him come in and remember the details of the sale. He did not, said he didn’t know that it was, you know, the president’s son that he was selling the gun to at the time.”
8. STILL of Gordon Cleveland departs from federal court (ID: 24157757658988)
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press:
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“Tomorrow is the third day of trial. It was resumed with testimony from the gun store clerk. I think they’re almost done with him. And then the defense. I’m sorry. Then the prosecution has about six more witnesses they’re going to call before they decide to rest their case in chief. And then after that, it’ll be up to Hunter Biden’s lawyers to decide how they want to present a defense.”
10. STILL of Hunter Biden departs from federal court (ID: 24157754360667)
STORYLINE:
Hunter Biden’s ex-wife and a former girlfriend testified Wednesday in his gun trial about finding his crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia, and jurors saw photos of the president’s son bare-chested in a bubble bath and heard about his visit to a strip club.
As the first lady sat in the front row, the courtroom grew quiet when Kathleen Buhle, who was married to Hunter for 20 years, walked in. She testified that she discovered her husband was using drugs when she found a crack pipe in an ashtray on their porch on July 3, 2015, a day after their anniversary. When she confronted him, “he acknowledged smoking crack,” she said.
The trial, about whether he lied on a gun purchase form in 2018 when he said he wasn’t using drugs, has quickly become a highly personal and detailed tour of the mistakes and drug use of Hunter Biden, whose struggles have been tabloid fodder for years and were used publicly by Republicans, including in their stalled impeachment effort against the president.
Hunter Biden has been charged with three felonies stemming from the purchase in October 2018. He’s accused of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days.
AP Video by Tassanee Vejpongsa and Erik Verduzco
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