This week a remarkable case started in a Delaware court against Hunter Biden and in the first hours jurors heard Biden's voice, but not him on the witness stand, rather through his audio book. I bought crack cocaine on the streets of Washington, D.C. and cooked up my own inside a hotel bungalow in Los Angeles.

I've been so desperate for a drink that I couldn't make the one block walk between a liquor store

in my apartment without uncapping the bottle to take a

swig. In the last five years alone, this is from the audio version of

Biden's memoir called Beautiful Things and prosecutors in this federal case have been using Hunter's own words against him.

He's facing felony charges over whether he was using illegal drugs when he bought a gun in 2018.

Those charges have put Hunter and his father,

President Biden, at the center of a very painful

and very public criminal trial. So this is a trial that at its core, it's three gun charges,

but what the testimony could reveal

are some pretty painful memories for the Biden family.

Perry Stein covers the Justice Department for the post.

She has been in the courtroom in Delaware following the trial.

So what we're expected to see throughout this trial is, and we've already seen some of it, is Hunter

Biden really having to listen to prosecutors talk about some of his really

vivid and graphic and dark drug abuse days.

And if convicted, Hunter Biden could face time in prison.

Obviously for Hunter Biden it matters, right? He could be a felon at the end of this

but also we know that this Hunter Biden case has become a big deal politically

you know Republicans have used this, over again to try to show, to be clear, without evidence, that Joe Biden, the president is corrupt and is implicated in whatever his son has been doing.

Of course, this all comes on the heels of former President Donald Trump's felony convictions

last week in the New York-Hush money trial.

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