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WashPost excerpt 5/21/24———Hunter’s defense team has also entered a significant amount of sensitive material in the California case, according to recent government filings. It includes emails and texts between Hunter Biden and his children and his uncle, documents from his divorce case with Kathleen Buhle, and tax forms from his ex lover/SIL, Hallie Biden.
But it is the live witnesses in Delaware who may get the most attention. The court documents do not name them, but provide descriptions that make it clear who they are.
Buhle, who divorced Hunter Biden in April 2017, is described as someone who “was previously married to the defendant.” After their divorce, it says, “through 2018 she would check his vehicle from time to time because she did not want their children in a vehicle with drugs.”
“While searching his vehicles, she found drugs or paraphernalia on approximately a dozen occasions, which she discarded in a trash can,” the court filing states. “She is corroborated by a text message exchange with the defendant, in which she tells the defendant on March 9, 2018, ‘I also found a few crack pipes. I took them out because our daughter was driving the car.’”
Hallie Biden is described as having observed Hunter Biden “using drugs on multiple occasions.” She said that when Hunter Biden stayed at her home in the fall of 2018, she and her children — Hunter’s niece and nephew — “searched his bags, backpacks, and vehicle in an effort to help him get sober, and discovered drug paraphernalia and drugs in his possessions on multiple occasions.”
Another witness is described as having previously been in a romantic relationship with Hunter Biden and having observed him “using crack cocaine frequently — every 20 minutes except when he slept.” Some of that description fits Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman with whom Hunter Biden had a child. An attorney for Roberts did not return a message on Tuesday.
Buhle and Hallie Biden also did not respond to emails seeking comment.
The recent court filing includes 75 pages of texts and emails that government prosecutors say they will use during the case.
But Hunter Biden publicly describes himself as a recovering addict and has not been shy about admitting his drug use.
“I’m a liar and a thief and a blamer and a user and I’m delusional and an addict unlike beyond and above all other addicts that you know and I’ve ruined every relationship I’ve ever cherished,” Hunter Biden wrote in a Nov. 3, 2018 message to Hallie Biden, according to the court filing.
A few weeks later, he conceded that he was struggling to escape his addiction while in his home state, apparently alluding to his long history, memories good and bad, and numerous connections there.
“What’s the worst place for me to be trying to stay clean?” he wrote. “Delaware.”
By Matt Viser. Perry Stein also contributed to this report.