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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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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 98 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

The picture from the article.

Yes, that’s a table saw in the mirror. (Edit: or is that a picture frame? Whatever the picture has a table saw.)

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 53 points 8 months ago (27 children)

Do those prosecutors think cocaine is light brown?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

Considering the anti-drug propaganda they send to schools? Quite possibly.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Well, everyone knows cocaine is made from cacao beans!

/s

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Maybe by the time they get some it is

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Maybe the really good stuff that they use is brown. Us plebs just get the white shit.

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

They could have said it was heroin.. cause that can be brown but no, they say cocaine which is clearly wrong.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

Just saw a clip on Kimmel of Hannity after the sawdust thing came out still insisting that it is cocaine. Because "it's arranged in perfect little lines."

He actually asks, "does that look like sawdust to you?"

That's how much they gaslight.

[–] Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

And it looks like sawdust. Damn that is dense.

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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Damn, as a woodworker I can't tell you how many times we used to be talking or messing around in the shop and mindlessly making little lines of sawdust as if it was cocaine. None of us did cocaine, its just what you do when you have a large pile of dust in front of you.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I'm not even a woodworker and I did that with sawdust back in middle school industrial arts class. Like you said, it's sort of a natural thing to do. Humans like organizing things, even if they aren't actually able to be organized.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's kind of a cleverly composed photo actually...

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 59 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I want to know how much fucking money repubs are spending on this wild goose chase. Completely ridiculous.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Can we start a betting pool on whether this or Benghazi will end up costing the taxpayers more money?

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Well into the millions at this point, I wouldn't say all be surprised if it is already fiscally equal to the whitewater kerfuffle (52 million).

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As much as it takes, the cruelty is priceless.

[–] 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.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this is a photo of the accused butt crack. This definitely proves that he is addicted to crack cocaine.”

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"this close, they always look like landscapes; but nope, you're lookin' at balls."

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

It's wild that they went with Police Academy instead of Arrested Development.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

When are we going to rid ourselves of these russian agents? Have we not suffered enough damage at their hands?

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Huh, the onion got me get again.

Wait..

[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Those are balls.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Just wait until they get to the bag of oregano.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

ACAB -- Especially Feds.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

That it's a picture of sawdust, that he not even took himself, makes this one funny, but even if it was a picture of an actual white powder that might have been actual cocaine, how could that picture be considered as evidence of substance abuse?

There's bound to be loads of pictures of white powders in a line around. There's also probably loads of people who made flour lines in the kitchen and then send a funny pose to their friends. Harmless fun, until there's a witch hunt out for you apparently. Just having such a picture on your phone is in itself proof of nothing, there needs to be more.

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