The opening salvo set the stage for the prosecution’s framing of the trial.
“It doesn’t matter who you are or what your name is,” Hines said. Defendants are tried “because of the choices they made,” he continued, court reporters noted, adding that Hunter “chose to illegally own a firearm” and that “we’re also here because he chose to lie.”
Hunter Biden “chose to illegally own a firearm,” he said. “Addiction may not be a choice,” but buying a gun is. Hunter “isn’t charged with possessing drugs.”
