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Hunter Biden's lawyers say prosecutors confused a picture of sawdust with cocaine (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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The mix-up "sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980’s Police Academy comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution,” Biden's attorney wrote.

Federal prosecutors mistakenly claimed in a court filing that a photo of sawdust they found while searching Hunter Biden's electronics was cocaine, attorneys for the president's son said Tuesday.

The sawdust picture was used in a court filing detailing incriminating information that prosecutors said they turned up while executing a search warrant of Biden's laptop and electronics, but his legal team said in court papers that the picture was sent to their client by his then-psychiatrist as inspiration.

The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust. The psychiatrist sent the picture to Biden in 2018, saying it was "lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.”

Biden's attorneys said the message and picture were "meant to convey that Mr. Biden, too, could overcome any addiction" and used the apparent mix-up to mock prosecutors.

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[–] dugmeup@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This while amusing is a scary look at the current FBI and Federal LE's ability to pursue groundless action.

Hunter Biden and editorialising Joe Biden's mental state, the highly ambiguous statement on Hillary Clinton's emails - all under the roof of a Dem Executive.

Not to mention the shitty work done by Mueller - what a god damn hack job that was

Dems need to get it in their heads that LE needs a good wash through and needs a clean up. Having a "middle ground" DOJ and heads of LE is just going to get them and the country in deep shit and it will be too late.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Definitely. In an attempt to appear impartial, they end up going completely overboard and overcharging for things that no normal citizen would be charged for.

Also kinda strange that apparently only republicans can be appointed as a special counsel. Dems will only ever appoint republicans as special counsels because they’re too concerned about appearances, and republicans will only ever appoint republicans as special counsels because they couldn’t care less about appearances and know that there won’t be pushback, because dems are too concerned about appearances. It’s insanely frustrating.

If we’ve learned anything from the likes of Aileen Cannon, Matthew Kacsmaryk, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, it’s that actual impartiality is and never has been the goal. It’s about exercising and expanding their own personal power over others, against the wishes of the vast majority of the electorate.

Dems need to start acting like the consequences of this shit are real, stop equivocating about appearances and start using the power the people gave them.