Hunter Biden's lawyer tries to throw  his exes under the bus: Attorney says Hallie was 'incredibly stupid' throwing out gun, accuses stripper of lying and slams 'cruel' questions to daughter Naomi as jury begins deliberations

Hunter Biden's lawyer turned connected the president's son's exes and accused prosecutors of being 'cruel' to his girl Naomi successful bonzer closing arguments successful his national weapon proceedings connected Monday.

Defense lawyer Abbe Lowell said Hunter's brother's widow and ex Hallie Biden did thing 'incredibly stupid' erstwhile she threw his weapon successful the trash astatine a market store successful 2016.

He besides tried to undercut the grounds of his erstwhile stripper woman Zoe Kestan, by claiming she had nary grounds helium was utilizing drugs erstwhile they were unneurotic and accused her of lying erstwhile she said helium 'smoked ace each 20 minutes'.

'No pipes, nary scales, nary drugs, not adjacent alcohol,' helium said of Kestan's grounds earlier the assemblage was sent retired for deliberations. They were sent location for the time aft an hr aft failing to scope a verdict. 

The 54-year-old Hunter's destiny is present successful the hands of 12 of his peers who volition determine if helium becomes the archetypal lad of a sitting president to beryllium a convicted felon.

He faces a maximum of up to 25 years successful situation for each of the 3 national firearms charges helium is facing.

In a highly-charged time successful court, Ashley Biden ran retired successful tears and the prosecutors disclosed bombshell substance messages Hunter sent to a cause trader astir the clip helium bought the Colt Cobra revolver astatine the halfway of the case.

DailyMail.com besides revealed helium withdrew $800 successful currency from an ATM and met with a trader hours earlier helium went to the weapon store. 

Hunter was again joined by a ample enactment radical of household members including archetypal woman Jill Biden and uncle Jim Biden - who has been scrutinized for allegedly utilizing Joe's sanction successful concern deals. 

In his closing statement, Lowell accused prosecutors of asking Hunter's daughter  Naomi if she utilized drugs to capable 'gaping holes' successful their case.

He banged his fist connected the lectern and glared astatine the opposing broadside arsenic helium delivered the stark message.

Prosecutor Derek Hines rejected defence suggestions that questioning of Naomi, 30, earlier successful the proceedings 'extraordinarily cruel'.

Hines said: 'Who called the defendant's girl arsenic a witnesser successful this case? Not us.'

Naomi was called by the defence and past cross-examined by the prosecution.

Hines said respective things Lowell had said successful his closing arguments were 'completely unfair'.

That besides included suggesting that the assemblage has Hunter Biden's beingness successful its hands.

The 3 charges the assemblage are considering are lying to a federally licensed weapon dealer, making a mendacious assertion connected an exertion by saying helium was not a cause user, and illegally having the weapon for 11 days.

The defence argued that Hallie had done thing 'incredibly stupid' connected October 23rd, 2018.

Hallie threw retired the weapon successful a dumpster down a market store erstwhile she discovered  it.

Lowell went connected to accidental that she whitethorn person thrown it retired 'for love' of Hunter.

Hallie and Hunter engaged successful a romanticist narration aft the decease of his member Beau, and utilized drugs together.

Lowell besides accused DEA cause Joshua Romig of trumping up grounds that Hunter routinely withdrew thousands of dollars successful currency arsenic an ‘inference of cause use’, portion admitting that the wealth ‘absolutely tin be’ utilized for different purchases.

He said Romig and prosecutors were ‘making a suspicion oregon conjecture and hoping you won’t announcement the difference.’

Lowell near unfastened the anticipation that Hunter had relapsed successful the autumn of 2018 into his intoxicant addiction, but said this did not mean helium was backmost utilizing crack.

He said that the StarQuest Shooters weapon store salesman Cleveland was cautious who helium sold guns to, and that ‘on that time Mr. Biden did not grounds immoderate of the things’ that would person fixed him intermission erstwhile selling, including glassy eyes, smelling of drugs oregon alcohol, oregon evident inebriation.

The defence lawyer pointed retired that aft Hallie ‘did thing incredibly stupid’ by throwing Hunter’s weapon successful a nationalist trash can, Hunter told her to telephone the police, cooperated with the investigation, and was treated arsenic a unfortunate not a perpetrator.

‘Hunter has not asked anyone to excuse oregon forgive him,’ Lowell said, but added that it was ‘unfair’ to ‘take Hunter’s words astir being an addict retired of context’.

After the assemblage went retired Hunter exited arm-in-arm with his woman Melissa. 

Lowell told the assemblage it was ‘time to extremity this case’.

He criticized the prosecution for treating incidents successful Hunter’s 4 years of addiction ‘like an accordion’, squeezing unneurotic distant events to marque them look similar they happened successful a abbreviated abstraction of time.

‘They instrumentality assorted years, marque a continuum, past shrink it down,’ helium said.

Lowell argued Hunter had plentifulness of clip betwixt his debauchery successful aboriginal 2018 and his weapon acquisition successful October to get sober, and that helium did so.

He likened the prosecutors to magicians, playing a sleight of manus with the grounds by distracting the assemblage with 1 acceptable of facts portion attempting to fell inconvenient information.

Lowell said determination was ‘nothing’ successful Hunter’s publication astir drugs betwixt his enactment successful Los Angeles successful the archetypal fractional of 2018, and his weapon acquisition successful October – though excerpts quoted by Wise earlier seemed to contradict that claim.

He poured acold h2o connected Kestan’s testimony, saying that she didn’t person existent photos of Hunter with ace pipes oregon drugs successful September of 2018, erstwhile she said helium was smoking ace each 20 minutes, portion she did person that grounds for earlier months.

‘In the captious clip you person to judge Zoe Kestan… what does she not have?’ helium said.

He alluded to the six hours implicit 3 meetings she had with prosecutors ‘to prepare, oregon should I accidental rehearse’ her grounds – prompting an objection from Hines.

‘She wouldn’t spell retired with Hunter until she recovered retired who helium was,’ Lowell added, coating her arsenic a gold-digger who mightiness prevarication connected the stand.

Turning to Hallie, Lowell reminded the assemblage of Hallie’s disorder and mediocre recollection during his cross-examination of her, astir wherever she allegedly recovered drugs and paraphernalia successful Hunter’s car connected October 23 2018.

‘She could retrieve what the prosecutors asked her. Not truthful overmuch different things,’ helium said, wryly.

He besides claimed determination was tenable uncertainty implicit Hunter’s 4am October 16 sojourn to a 7-Eleven, evidenced by geolocated videos helium texted, recovered by investigators.

‘They privation to springiness you the inference that what helium was doing was buying drugs astatine the 7-Eleven, alternatively than buying a cupful of java waiting for Hallie,’ Lowell said, adding that believing it was to conscionable a trader was ‘suspicion oregon conjecture’, not fact.

He explained distant Hunter’s texts to Hallie astir gathering a dealer, saying: ‘He wasn’t reasoning 5 years aboriginal he’d beryllium sitting successful a courtroom trying to explicate the mode they talked to each other.’

His half-sister Ashley exited aboriginal during the prosecutor's closing statement, crying – not for the archetypal clip during the trial.

Hunter’s aunt Valerie Owens, with whom helium is precise close, wore acheronian sunglasses wrong that concealed immoderate tears.

Getting the past connection successful the arguments, authoritative Derek Hines turned the lawsuit connected its head, listing each the grounds helium said the assemblage would person to judge were lies successful bid to acquit the defendant.

Hines said Hunter would person had to person been lying successful his substance messages to Hallie that helium was gathering a trader and ‘smoking crack’ successful the 2 days aft helium bought the gun.

Hunter would person had to person been lying successful his ain book, successful which helium said helium ‘relapsed’ successful September 2018 and continued utilizing drugs successful October.

The assemblage would request to judge Hunter’s ex-lover and brother’s widow, Hallie Biden, was lying erstwhile she said she recovered cause detritus and paraphernalia successful Hunter’s motortruck connected October 23.

Hines said that if Hunter Biden had simply been an addict struggling with idiosyncratic problems 'we would not beryllium present successful this courtroom.'

Hunter alternatively is connected proceedings for buying a weapon and lying astir being a cause addict erstwhile helium did so, Hines said.

Hines told the assemblage the grounds intelligibly shows Hunter Biden had a signifier of amerciable cause usage astatine the clip helium bought the gun.

Prosecutors don't person to beryllium Hunter utilized drugs connected the time helium bought the weapon oregon that helium was nether the power portion successful the weapon store, helium said.

Wise focused connected Kestan’s testimony, saying that based connected her statement of Hunter smoking ace each 20 minutes weeks earlier helium bought the gun, ‘you could convict based connected those facts alone.’

They besides highlighted the $150,000 Hunter pulled from ATMs during the 3 months from September done November 2018, arguing that astatine slightest immoderate of it was spent connected drugs.