Hunter Biden has spent the last week in a Delaware federal courtroom listening closely as prosecutors reveal salacious details of his long struggle with drug abuse. And his family has been right there with him.
First lady Jill Biden has attended almost daily, usually seated next to her stepson’s wife, Melissa, and surrounded by several family members and close friends eager to show their support. On Monday, at least 25 people made up Biden’s courtroom fan club—squeezing into three rows in the gallery and spilling into a fourth.
“From what I have seen, if one of their backs is against the wall, they are there for each other,” Jill Biden’s former press secretary Michael LaRosa told The Daily Beast. “That’s who this family is.”
The first family’s presence was so palpable that Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise was forced to address their presence at the start of his closing arguments on Monday, urging jurors to ignore them and instead focus on the evidence showing Biden lied about his drug addiction on a form to buy a gun.
“All of this is not evidence,” Wise said before waving his hand around the packed courtroom, adding that jurors may recognize the regular attendees. “People sitting in the gallery are not evidence.”
But the family affair at the federal courthouse is hard to ignore.
On the first day of trial, Jill Biden was reportedly visibly emotional as prosecutors played experts of Hunter Biden’s audiobook in which he delves into lurid........