Hunter Biden claims Special Counsel mistook SAWDUST for lines of cocaine and insists photo was sent to his psychiatrist as ‘a joke’

Hunter Biden’s legal team have accused the Justice Department of an astonishing blunder in which investigators mistook sawdust for lines of cocaine during their investigation into the president’s son. 

Attorney’s for Hunter claimed Special Counsel David Weiss made a mistake ‘straight out of a 1980s’ Police Academy film’.

It came after Weiss published photos from Hunter’s iPhone and hard drive that the prosecutor said were proof he was using cocaine when he bought a gun.

Hunter’s lawyers say the image in question was actually sent to his psychiatrist by someone else as a joke.

‘The prosecution is flat out wrong – both that Mr. Biden “took” this photograph and in claiming that it depicts “cocaine”,’ Biden’s lawyers said. 

‘Multiple sources have pointed out, and a review of discovery confirms, this is actually a photo of sawdust from an expert carpenter and it was sent to Mr. Biden, not vice versa.’

‘More specifically, the discovery identifies this as a photo of a photo taken in the office of Mr. Biden’s then-psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow,’ Hunter’s lawyers said.

The court documents said Dr. Ablow initially received the image from a patient, who was a master carpenter, and later texted it to Hunter.

In his text to Hunter the doctor wrote: ‘This one in my office is of lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.’

‘The message accompanying that photo was meant to convey that Mr. Biden, too, could overcome any addiction,’ Hunter’s lawyers wrote.

They went on: ‘Mistaking sawdust for cocaine sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980s Police Academy comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice.’ 

Abbe Lowell, Hunter’s lawyer, said the sawdust mistake ‘amplifies why Mr. Biden and the court could not take what the prosecution said ‘at face value’.

Weiss has charged Hunter Biden with crimes including lying about his drug use when he purchased a gun in 2018. The president’s son has pleaded not guilty.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers accused the prosecution of being ‘reckless’ by making a ‘hyperbolic and sensational’ claim in relation to the sawdust picture.

They said it would ‘prejudice Mr. Biden in the public eye.’

The row over the picture came as Hunter’s lawyers filed a 22-page document relating to the sharing of evidence between the prosecution and defense.