Welcome to DailyMail.com’s daily U.S. politics blog, with live coverage of verdict watch in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial.
The jury returns at 9am for the second day of deliberations after they were sent home on Monday night, leaving the president’s son waiting to learn his fate.
He faces a maximum of 25 years in prison if found guilty of all three of the federal charges he is facing.
In closing arguments his lawyer Abbe Lowell tried to throw his exes under the bus and slammed the prosecution for their ‘cruel’ cross-examination of his daughter Naomi.
The government’s lawyers said the evidence against Hunter was ‘overwhelming’ and ended their case with damning text messages he sent to a drug dealer just before he bought the gun at the center of the case.
Follow all the updates from our reporters in court in Wilmington, Delaware, and our team covering the biggest stories in Washington D.C.
Welcome to DailyMail.com’s daily U.S. politics blog – with live coverage of Hunter Biden’s wait for the verdict in his gun trial
Welcome to DailyMail.com’s daily U.S. politics blog, with live coverage of verdict watch in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial.
The jury returns at 9am for their second day of deliberations after they were sent home on Monday night, leaving the president’s son waiting to learn his fate.
In closing arguments, his lawyer Abbe Lowell tried to throw his exes under the bus and slammed the prosecution for their ‘cruel’ cross-examination of his daughter Naomi.
Here is what happened in court during closing arguments:
Jury resumes deliberations in Hunter’s case
After only deliberating for an hour on Monday, the jury is back at it again Tuesday morning.
There is speculation that a verdict could come before the lunch hour.
If convicted on the three federal gun charges, Hunter faces up to 25 years in prison.
His father, President Joe Biden, said recently that he is not considering a pardon for Hunter.
Hunter Biden arrives to court as jury could determine his fate today
The damning messages from Hunter that could blow a hole in his defense
Hunter Biden tried to meet up with a drug dealer just 24 hours before he lied about his crack cocaine use to buy a gun, damning texts revealed by prosecutors in court on Monday suggest,
The messages from October 11, 2018, show the president’s son trying to arrange a meeting at a 7-Eleven in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
He pleaded guilty in June 2023 to a count of using a communication device to facilitate a drug conspiracy.
Jill Biden’s 3,600-mile round trip from France to Delaware to spend two days at Hunter’s trial could cost up to $345,000
Taxpayers will pick up the majority of cost for Jill Biden’s whirlwind flights between Wilmington, Delaware, and France so she could be at son Hunter’s side during his federal gun trial although the Democratic Party will chip in some funds.
The first lady racked up $345,400 in flight costs, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation estimated, as she boomeranged between the United States and France last week, traveling separately from husband Joe Biden so she could support her family at home while also representing the United States abroad.
Her political party will repay the government for what it would cost for her to fly commercially with taxpayers footing the rest of the bill.
Biden sparks concerns as he appears to FREEZE during Juneteenth celebration concert at the White House alongside a dancing Kamala Harris
President Joe Biden sparked concerns Monday night when he appeared to freeze for the better part of a minute before his speech became slurred past the point of comprehension during a lively Juneteenth celebration at the White House.
During the event ahead of the national holiday next week, the Commander-in-Chief seemed to short-circuit as the rest of the crowd, including Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, grooved along to the lively band.
Philonise Floyd, brother of the late George Floyd, flanked Biden on his left and eventually noticed the concerning pause he was taking and wrapped his arm around him in an apparent effort to help.
Floyd was able to get a response out of Biden when he extended a ‘pound it’ fist in his direction, which the president met with his own fist.
But Biden would go on to have a further meltdown as he delivered a speech following the musical performance.
Prosecution tells jury ‘people sitting in the gallery’ including Jill Biden are ‘not evidence’
Attorneys started closing arguments in Hunter Biden’s gun trial after court resumed following a lunch break.
The prosecution is up first after bringing FBI agent Erika Jensen back to the stand.
‘No one is above the law,’ stated prosecutor Leo Wise.
He also told the jury to ignore the big wigs in the audience, including First Lady Jill Biden.
‘All of this is not evidence. People sitting in the gallery are not evidence.’
Hunter Biden withdrew $800 from ATM and met with drug dealer just hours before revolver purchase, bombshell text messages reveal
Smoking gun text messages show Hunter set up a meeting with a convicted drug dealer the night before he bought a .38 revolver.
The day before the gun purchase, Hunter texted violent, convicted drug dealer Eladio Otero Jr. to ‘meet me 7/11 at 3’, according to records from the First Son’s abandoned laptop.
Otero was convicted last year of ‘use of a communication device to facilitate a drug conspiracy’ in a Delaware federal case overseen by David Weiss, who is now the Special Counsel prosecuting Hunter.
Otero was previously convicted of assault after being arrested for a 2007 armed robbery in which he held a knife to the victim’s throat while his accomplice pointed a gun at the man’s head, according to a Maryland police report.
