Hunter Biden jurors sound off on why calling his daughter to the stand was a critical mistake
By Social Links for Jack Morphet and
Social Links for Olivia Land
Published June 11, 2024
Updated June 11, 2024, 4:02 p.m. ET
Two of the jurors who convicted first son Hunter Biden on federal gun charges Tuesday told The Post they were particularly affected by his eldest daughter Naomi’s testimony – with one panelist saying the defense team made a mistake calling her as a witness.
Naomi Biden, 30, recounted her father’s erratic behavior in the days after he illegally lied about his crack cocaine addiction to purchase a .38-caliber revolver on Oct. 12, 2018.
At one point, she said, Hunter had texted her at 2 a.m. on Oct. 18, asking if Naomi could meet him somewhere in Manhattan to exchange cars after she used his Ford Raptor pickup to help move her then-boyfriend Peter Neal into her apartment.
“I’m really sad, dad,” Naomi texted Hunter later that day after he missed out on another planned rendezvous. “I can’t take this. I don’t know what to say. I just miss you so much. And want to hang out with you.”
“It just seemed so sad for her to see her father in such a state,” one juror, a 51-year-old black woman from upper Delaware, told The Post. “She was happy when she thought he was getting better, then he relapsed.”
“I just think she probably just wants her dad to be like he was before her uncle [Beau Biden] died [in May 2015],” she added. “And to be able to depend on him.”
A second juror — a 68-year-old white man from Sussex County — agreed that Naomi’s testimony was effective — but not in the way Hunter’s lawyers had hoped.
“I felt sorry for Naomi, I really did,” he said. “I don’t think any daughter should have to be up there testifying on her father’s behalf.”
“That was heart-wrenching and I think all the jurors felt the same thing.”
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