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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    Dude still wrote an autobiography about how he was smoking a bunch of crack during the time he bought the gun.

    Like, he snitched on himself.

    I don’t understand why this being sawdust is so newsworthy it keeps getting reposted

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      1. The picture clearly is a sawdust though on a carpentry machine with plenty of it on the floor as well
      2. I don’t think autobiography can be used as evidence as generally everyone bends truth a little to make the book more interesting. It is not a sworn statement
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          Wasn’t that because it showed the rapper knew things that weren’t public about the murder so likely was the killer?

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        Yeah, obviously that one was.

        But more importantly it was a picture sent to him, he didn’t take it. And the context is the person who sent it was a medical professional helping him with addiction.

        That’s what I mean.

        There is a shit ton of other evidence, hell, there’s pictures of him literally smoking crack.

        And he has been incredibly public about his crack addiction.

        https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/politics/hunter-biden-book-memoir-addiction/index.html

        During which he bought at least one gun.

        Why the fuck is everyone acting like there’s a single chance he won’t be found guilty except his access to some of the best lawyers and media connections in America?

        He broke federal gun laws. It’s pretty clear cut that he deserves the same punishment as anyone else.

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          No one is disputing the crime. Providing fake evidence and telling everyone to accept it is nonsense.

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      I smoked all the meth in Dallas and murdered 12 hookers!

      Now the cops have all the proof they need to put me in prison.

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      Well, you’re a Republican shill, and it takes more than a pair of brain cells to understand.

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        He simply summarized what was admitted in an autobiography. How does that make him a shill?