First lady Jill Biden arrives at federal court, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum); Jeanine Pirro pictured during a June 5, 2024 segment on Fox News (Fox News/screengrab)
Jeanine Pirro sees First Lady Jill Biden’s presence at Hunter Biden’s ongoing federal gun trial, especially at jury selection, as an implicit “message” to jurors that the Biden family knows who they are and are watching them closely.
The former judge and district attorney now serving as co-host of Fox News’ “The Five,” suggesting that a jury nullification outcome might not be an impossibility given that up to eight jurors “have someone in their family who’s had a drug or alcohol addiction problem,” characterized Jill Biden’s presence at trial as an intimidating signal to the jury.
“You’ve got Jill Biden at the trial, but she wasn’t just at the trial. She was at the selection of the jury,” Pirro said of President Joe Biden’s wife. “I can’t help but think she was there trying to send a message.”
Truly deranged stuff, Fox’s Jeanine Pirro is claiming that Jill Biden appearing at Hunter’s trial demonstrates a “mob mentality” in which she is telling the jury “we know who you are.” pic.twitter.com/AbVYLHcmkf
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) June 5, 2024
“‘We’re the Bidens, this is Delaware,”” Pirro interpreted the purported message. “So on the one hand you have the sympathetic jury who have experienced the devastation of drugs and alcohol addiction, and then you’ve got kind of the mob mentality, ‘We know who you are, we’re in the courtroom, and we’re watching you.’”
By Pirro’s standard, Donald Trump family members showing up to support him at the Manhattan hush-money trial that ended with 34 felony convictions would qualify as implicit juror intimidation.
Hunter Biden is, indeed, on trial facing felony allegations that he knowingly made a “false and fictitious written statement” that he “was not an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance” when he purchased a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver in October 2018 and possessed it for 11 days.
The case got off to rocky start for the defense, as U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika closed the door on Biden’s efforts to tell jurors the ATF form at issue was “doctored” years after he filled it out.
The judge concluded that such evidence would only tend to promote “sideshows aimed at tainting or confusing the jury.”
Meanwhile, special counsel David Weiss and his team, have attempted to drive home that Hunter Biden’s own “admissions” about being addicted to crack, as chronicled in his book, show that the defendant cannot credibly say he didn’t know he was addicted to drugs at the time of the gun purchase.
On Wednesday, jurors heard from Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, who reportedly testified about finding drug paraphernalia in Hunter’s car in 2018, not knowing exactly when that year this allegedly took place.
Biden ex-girlfriend Zoe Kestan, CNN additionally reported, testified that she saw Hunter smoking crack the month before he bought the revolver.
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