One is a church-going non-profit executive. One is a dancer at a strip club. One was a school counselor married to Hunter Biden’s brother, Beau. But what do they all have in common? They’re the three former romantic partners of Hunter and could be the key to making him the first son of a president to ever be convicted of criminal charges.

All three testified for the prosecution this week in Delaware federal court, where Biden is facing three charges in connection with an October 2018 federal firearms application. The women could not be more different, but each provided an intimate testimony of their relationships with Biden and his self-destructive behavior around his escalating drug use over the last decade.

The gut-wrenching testimonies have taken up at least two days of the trial as the prosecution seeks to prove that Biden knowingly lied when he wrote he was not taking drugs when he bought the firearm. Critics, however, believe the airing of Biden’s love life and drug habits in open court is just meant to humiliate the president’s son for a criminal charge that is rarely prosecuted.

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told The Daily Beast that while the three women are very different, “they were all consistent in describing Hunter’s crack cocaine use” and that may be too much for the defense to overcome.

“[The defense are] arguing that Hunter didn’t think he was a user or addict when he bought the gun, so they’ve opened the door to all the embarrassing evidence coming in: the laptop images with drug paraphernalia, messages to and about drug dealers, and testimony from his exes,” he added.

Here are the three women at the center of the prosecution’s case:

Kathleen Buhle departing the courthouse on Tuesday.

Buhle, a non-profit executive and writer, met Biden in July 1992 while the two were working as volunteers at a Portland church. Three months after the couple started dating, Buhle fell pregnant and they married about a year later. The pair, who moved to Wilmington before settling down in D.C., had two more daughters together.

In her 2022 memoir, If We Break, Buhle details her 24-year relationship with Biden and his........

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