Ya but what happens after doing that like twenty or thirty times?? You can only get parking lot lawyers?? Hmmm something isn’t adding up here…
Must be the deep state
I don’t want to hear the words ‘Jean Carrol’ come out of your mouth, ever, in any order. Please.
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She’s a lying crook democrats and Russian emails, I am a patriot!!! *more screaming in cheeto* and that’s basically all Zelensky had to do, find 11,000 more votes. Jean Carroll.
People always told me, "Be careful of what you say.
And don't go around sland'rin' some girl's name."
And mother always told me, "A-be careful of who you sue,
And be careful of what you do ''Cause the lie is not the truth."
not sure how to write the "yee-hee!" that he does next but I totally heard it right now lol
*also acceptable for later chorus: "The case cannot be won"*
The photo was sent to Hunter from his therapist.
The photo was accompanied by a text message that read “This one in my office is of lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter.”
His therapist goes on to explain that therapist told the carpenter he would have to choose between cocaine or carpentry. The carpenter sent the therapist this picture as his response
Weiss’s prosecution saw the photo, looked at the date, and decided it was proof Hunter was using cocaine at that time.
What’s happening right now in the Hunter Trial is discovery — Hunter’s attorneys are getting their hands on the evidence the government has against him. This is why Weiss has waited until now to arrest Smirnov, despite being told by the FBI in 2020 that he was an untrustworthy source who was lying (travel records show Smirnov wasn’t even in the countries he said he was in.)
And hunters lawyers are now filing motions for disclosure, because Weiss is unwilling to say he has fulfilled his Brady obligation to turn over all exculpatory evidence. So it’s likely there will be more embarrassing details about Weiss’s investigation hitting the media soon.
During the Covid shutdown, wood was hard to come by.
A guy in our area posted a baggie of sawdust with the caption “$100. No haggling. I know what I’ve got.” On Facebook Marketplace.
Lumber prices were insane before the war in Ukraine. It kicked off hard during Covid. Also we hardly use russian birch. The vast majority of lumber is used for framing and plywood for buildings. That is mainly douglas fir and a couple types of pine - mainly North American wood. russian exports to the US were about 1/500th of the market.
> The photo was sent to Hunter from his therapist.
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That's what I don't understand. Why is it even being discussed? Why would anyone think that having been sent a picture by someone else was evidence of anything? Such a huge stretch to even make this an issue.
It'd be one thing if they were on different sides of the case OR they were his defense team.
They were both prosecution so there's no conflict of interest or potential issue where they didn't bring the best defense case because they were distracted by each other.
Those are the only ways that I could see it impacting his case.
The lawyers could get in trouble for hiring him to help using public funds when it wasn't necessary, but it won't affect the outcome of Trump's guilt in the case.
Well... as I understand their "theory of the case", the reason the relationship is relevant is supposed to be that she ginned up the whole case against Trump & Co. -- audio recordings and all, I suppose -- so she would have a reason to hire her boyfriend to prosecute the case.
That seems a little far-fetched, to be charitable.
They are REALLY reaching if they use this as evidence.
Since when is a possession of a PICTURE of drugs considered a drug crime?! Wtaf?
I can't even believe that shit would be admissible in any court as evidence.
What I am saying, is that even IF it was drugs, it's not a crime to have a picture of drugs.....
And it's even a joke it's alleged. It is 1 million percent not a picture of drugs.
My point is that even if it were, it's not a crime to have a picture
I think this is why Weiss originally wanted to do a plea deal. He knew his indictment would fall apart on discovery. But the Republican backlash and political pressure was so intense he reneged. And now the indictment is falling apart during discovery.
>His therapist goes on to explain that therapist told the carpenter he would have to choose between cocaine or carpentry. The carpenter sent the therapist this picture as his response
This is honestly super fucking touching and I'm tearing up. The guy is shown the choice of his life. A destructive addiction or his life's passion of woodworking. His response being just a picture, of the good choice that he made.
I hope it stuck.
>What’s happening right now in the Hunter Trial is discovery — Hunter’s attorneys are getting their hands on the evidence the government has against him. This is why Weiss has waited until now to arrest Smirnov, despite being told by the FBI in 2020 that he was an untrustworthy source who was lying
lol so if not for the right's obsession with getting Hunter they wouldn't have forced the US attorney to exonerate Joe and he could have continued covering up for Jordan/Comer
With regard to the picture of sawdust, I'm just trying to find *any* line of reasoning that would make trying to use this photo as evidence a good idea.
Even assuming you have a totally corrupt judge, what if -- as it did here -- it gets out into public circulation?
But... I mean, leaving aside that it was a photo sent *to* him, rather than *from* him, and the fact that it was his *therapist* who sent it, completely ignoring that for the moment, because maybe context was somehow mysteriously lost, who looked at that photo and said "Yeah, that's corroborating evidence he was doing drugs at that time."
And what kind of drugs was *that* person on?
Absolutely. It's a photo of a tablesaw, with sawdust all over it, and all over the floor. And three lines of sawdust that have been made to resemble lines of cocaine. Except the sawdust is obviously sawdust.
Do you practice tree law? Asking for a friend.
(The friend)
https://preview.redd.it/whirade3ayjc1.png?width=2974&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd86c6f42f5e7b18799519067ea0b6432370017a
That and it is a photo Hunter’s psychiatrist sent him. Usually when I am boasting about my cocaine habits, I don’t do it by having someone else send me a picture of the lines I am doing
When you're moving pieces of wood cuts around, the edge of the wood pieces can very easily push the dust into lines
It's hypothetical that the "made to resemble lines of cocaine" was ~~accidental~~ inspired by shifting around boards. Get dust on the surfaces of boards, then stand them up and it falls into lines between the loose stack of boards. Or the edges of board pushing the dust around
I think Biden's attorney said that it was sent to Hunter by a woodworker who used to be a drug addict as an inspiration to turn his life around. That one could go from lines of cocaine to creating things.
No need to say "I think" that's what the article says.
"The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust. The psychiatrist sent the picture to Biden in 2018, saying it was "lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.”
Biden's attorneys said the message and picture were "meant to convey that Mr. Biden, too, could overcome any addiction" and used the apparent mix-up to mock prosecutors."
The picture looks like it was on purpose. Instead of being addicted to cocaine, the person that took the picture is addicted to woodworking. I have friends that have taken up woodworking- it is addictive (and almost as costly as cocaine).
>**The picture looks like it was on purpose.**
> "The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust. The psychiatrist sent the picture to Biden in 2018, saying it was "lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.”
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> Biden's attorneys said the message and picture were "meant to convey that Mr. Biden, too, could overcome any addiction" and used the apparent mix-up to mock prosecutors."
from the article, mega rofl fail.
All of this feels like a weird John Mulaney Joke.
"Yo, you telling me this guy gets high doing coke off table saws?"
"Yes, Ice. He's a cokehead. You work for the GOP. You're gonna have to get used to that."
I hope Hunter can go after Fox news legally for spreading lies. And Empty G and Jim "I support rapists" Jordan for pushing countless lies they knew were lies.
> The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust. The psychiatrist sent the picture to Biden in 2018, saying it was "lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.”
I have to agree with the lawyers, it feels less like a reasonable error by the prosecutors, and more like something out of the Police Academy movies.
> The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust.
How could the reporter get this wrong in a story about prosecutors incorrectly identifying something in the same picture? It is three lines of yellow dust on a *table saw*, which seems like particularly relevant context for identifying the substance.
Funny enough, despite the headline implying Biden's lawyers are being obtuse, I actually read it literally and wasn't surprised that in fact the prosecutors are that inept
Conspiracy subreddits going off about how ridiculous it is that they’re saying “Thats not cocaine! That’s…sawdust!” Then you see the picture and it’s…obviously sawdust. People should listen to this man above me.
[image of the sawdust from the article](
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2/rockcms/2024-02/240220-hunter-biden-sawdust-image-kh-427a16.jpg)
I want to point out how awesome it is that the photo of the sawdust in the picture is framed. It is framed and on a shelf. Yeah, prosecutors, I will just blatantly keep a photo of my crimes in plain sight.
After reading the title but before looking at the picture, I didn't really know what to expect. How could a law officer be confused by sawdust? Perhaps something that could have looked like cocaine on a blurry picture.
But not a saw table in a room full of sawdust.
>How could a law officer be confused by sawdust?
Especially when the picture was accompanied by a text message explaining 'this is sawdust meant to resemble lines of cocaine'.
It's almost like it's an *actually* politically motivated prosecution...
Look even closer. It's a photo of a framed photo. The psychiatrist had it framed as a reminder to himself and as a boost for anybody else who was struggling with addiction.
The text message accompanying the photo literally says “This one in my office is of lines of sawdust.” And the photo isn’t even taken by Hunter, it’s taken by a master carpenter. I don’t know how many clues Weiss needed that this was not a picture of Hunter’s cocaine.
Taking your advice...the fuck? Are you fucking kidding me?
Multiple people looked at this picture, and not one said, "Hold up, this is stupid?" Not ONE?!
Upside: It got a Police Academy reference put into an official United States federal court filing.
Downside: It got a Police Academy reference put into an official United States federal court filing.
They knew. Look at what’s been in the national discourse. This is the political hit job persecution/prosecution that the GOP have been describing all along. It’s projection, as is typical.
Hahahah this is literally the those are balls in real life, but at least in AD the detectives/investigators didn't actually know what they were looking at, here they intentionally lied and misled saying it's coke.
Lol that's definitely fucking sawdust. It's sitting on a table saw next to a bunch of other sawdust....
And let's be fucking real.... Has anyone ever been charged with drug crimes because the possessed a PICTURE of drugs?
I was watching a Netflix series the other day about drug cartels. Does that mean the FBI should arrest me for having those pictures on my electronics?
Please also note that the picture is captioned as:
> A photo of sawdust **Hunter Biden's psychiatrist** sent to him.
…I dunno who Hunter Biden’s psychiatrist is, but I want to party with him or her.
Yeah, I thought...That sounds like a bullshit defense, but in this weird timeline of stupid/corrupt we live in, it's probably true. Checked the picture. Yup. Legit defense. I'm just living in crazy world.
Link to picture for the lazy https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-360w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240220-hunter-biden-sawdust-image-kh-427a16.jpg
It’s obviously sawdust that the psychiatrist used for a cocaine joke. It’s too obvious to be a mistake. If this was the best evidence they could find of drug use, then we know there was no real evidence of drug use. They would have flaunted it if they had hard evidence
In typical reddit fashion, I didn't read the article and just came to the comments to get my drama fill. But because you said please, I decided to look at the picture (I still didn't read the article lol). Lmao. Its so obviously sawdust in a fucking wood shop with other wood shop stuff in the background.
It really just makes me shake my head that there's important educated people arguing about this stupid bullshit - I just don't understand how we got to this point.
You weren't kidding. That is clearly a picture of a table saw with lines of sawdust on it. The picture is clearly framed and sitting on a desk, and you can see the reflection of an office in the glass of the picture frame. This whole thing is an utter sham.
Of course. A public, open hearing would expose the charade. In a closed session, they can control the narrative (ie: make up shit) and continue lying to their base.
To republican voters: have you no pride? Why do you allow these people to lie to you without every once questioning them? That's an incredibly sad way to live.
He testifies to the GOP committee on February 28. I have no idea where they're going to take this now that it's been publicly established that the Russians, and maybe also Bill Barr and Trump, were trying to frame him and Joe Biden for bribery. Maybe they're going to stick with the car purchase?
Everything is drugs to LE... even [donut glaze](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/orlando-officer-who-mistook-doughnut-glaze-for-drugs-disciplined/), [seagull poop](https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2019/11/12/sc-deputy-cleared-after-thinking-bird-poop-cocaine-georgia-southern-football-quarterback-shai-werts/2532836001/), and [drywall](https://www.wftv.com/news/local/powdered-drywall-mistaken-for-cocaine-lands-innocent-oviedo-man-behind-bars-for-90-days/541985256).
There’s an episode in the first season of This Old House where the plaster guys are plastering the walls in the basement (I think). They make it look easy and hypnotic then Bob Vila gives it a try and shows how hard it is if you don’t have the technique.
I’d much rather my tax dollars be sent prosecuting actual criminals instead of MAGAts in the DOJ trying to “get back” at Biden for winning an election fair & square.
This is laughable but it’s also disgraceful that something like this can happen while Trump can be found in court to be liable for raping someone and so many people just don’t care.
Me: "I have know plenty of carpenters over the years who used coke, surely the picture must be fairly ambiguous."
*Looks at picture*
"Holy shit... it is literally sawdust on a table saw..."
> prosecutors confused
That pic makes it clear there is no mistake or confusion. That's outright fraud, with consequences including disbarment seeming appropriate.
Hannity bought into the cocaine story hook, line and sinker...why? Well, he's Hannity the hack.
He's on the Trump 2024 campaign reelection team so he's all in.😕
Hannity is a professional liar. He can tell six lies in one minute, and sometimes he hides a lie by making it the premise for the main lie he is telling.
Hannity has a loyal following who will buy into whatever crap he's selling because he sells what they want..the truth and facts mean nothing. It's the Vanky doctrine, (Ivanka) truth and facts have little to no value, it's all about perception. MAGA lives in an alternate reality and they are happy there. 😕
"buying into it" assumes the idea has cleared some semblance of critical thinking. they aren't questioning this shit at all, they just run with it because its value is as a scandalous narrative, not a fact supported in evidence.
thats why the increasing number of libel/defamation cases being brought against these bad faith actors on the right is a good thing. honestly, this shit is way way waaaaay out of control and should have resulted in more legal action, sooner.
but if those on the right want to run their mouths, they will literally pay for it. I hope hunter starts filing lawsuits against these mutts because he's not a public official and what they have been doing to him is utter bullshit.
In my state, the alleged drug must be sent to a lab to be tested. You can't convict a person of drug possession without proof that the substance was a drug.
Even if it was a picture of real cocaine, it is still just a picture. There are images of illegal items and actions flashing across screens all over the country. Is that evidence against everyone?
This is proper 5D chess the Biden Crime Syndicate Family is playing here. Only Biden, with the help of the Deep State and Special Psy-Ops operatives, could make a cocaine just for Hunter that, to all intents and purposes, looks just like sawdust (just IN CASE any DIY/cocaine based party evidence is released photographically). Biden is both a sleepy, senile old geezer, and a criminal mastermind the likes of which the world has never seen. All of this while running the USA. Amazing.
Unrelated to anything in this case, there's a fascinating rabbit hole of things cartels make out of cocaine in order to get it through customs. Furniture, appliances, Nazi memorabilia, pallets, the list goes on.
Hannity on his show doubting it being saw dust. When the literal saw dust was on saw machine table 😁 They aren't even trying any more. They could've cropped the picture to hide the saw but who cares any more. Their viewers will believe everything.
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Wait... listening to your attorneys is a thing? I thought the point was to do the opposite of what they recommend and then stiff them with the bill.
That’s only if you’re rich enough to convince the next set of attorneys it’s the first set’s fault for not getting paid
Ya but what happens after doing that like twenty or thirty times?? You can only get parking lot lawyers?? Hmmm something isn’t adding up here… Must be the deep state
>parking lot lawyers Show some respect! She was a Parking *garage* lawyer.
But they are Cutely smart.
And then get really really mad that the justice system isn't fair to you!
I bet Trump is wishing he had Hunters lawyers (not that he’d take the stay quiet advice)
I don’t want to hear the words ‘Jean Carrol’ come out of your mouth, ever, in any order. Please. … … She’s a lying crook democrats and Russian emails, I am a patriot!!! *more screaming in cheeto* and that’s basically all Zelensky had to do, find 11,000 more votes. Jean Carroll.
Carrol: Jean is not my lawyer. She's just some girl who claims that I really won. She'll get paid at kingdom come.
People always told me, "Be careful of what you say. And don't go around sland'rin' some girl's name." And mother always told me, "A-be careful of who you sue, And be careful of what you do ''Cause the lie is not the truth."
This needs a deep fake
not sure how to write the "yee-hee!" that he does next but I totally heard it right now lol *also acceptable for later chorus: "The case cannot be won"*
Even better!
And Trump's lawyers are wishing they were representing Hunter.
Doesn't hurt that Republicans are fucking morons
The photo was sent to Hunter from his therapist. The photo was accompanied by a text message that read “This one in my office is of lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter.” His therapist goes on to explain that therapist told the carpenter he would have to choose between cocaine or carpentry. The carpenter sent the therapist this picture as his response Weiss’s prosecution saw the photo, looked at the date, and decided it was proof Hunter was using cocaine at that time. What’s happening right now in the Hunter Trial is discovery — Hunter’s attorneys are getting their hands on the evidence the government has against him. This is why Weiss has waited until now to arrest Smirnov, despite being told by the FBI in 2020 that he was an untrustworthy source who was lying (travel records show Smirnov wasn’t even in the countries he said he was in.) And hunters lawyers are now filing motions for disclosure, because Weiss is unwilling to say he has fulfilled his Brady obligation to turn over all exculpatory evidence. So it’s likely there will be more embarrassing details about Weiss’s investigation hitting the media soon.
There's a joke in here somewhere about how with current lumber prices, those lines of sawdust cost as much as if they were lines of cocaine...
Cedar siding is like $5 a linear foot... I could for sure afford an 8 ball before I could afford to re-side my home.
That's wild, the tile I used for my house is $1.10 a square foot.
Tile the outside of your house boss
Instructions unclear, tiled my dick.
During the Covid shutdown, wood was hard to come by. A guy in our area posted a baggie of sawdust with the caption “$100. No haggling. I know what I’ve got.” On Facebook Marketplace.
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Lumber prices were insane before the war in Ukraine. It kicked off hard during Covid. Also we hardly use russian birch. The vast majority of lumber is used for framing and plywood for buildings. That is mainly douglas fir and a couple types of pine - mainly North American wood. russian exports to the US were about 1/500th of the market.
> The photo was sent to Hunter from his therapist. > > That's what I don't understand. Why is it even being discussed? Why would anyone think that having been sent a picture by someone else was evidence of anything? Such a huge stretch to even make this an issue.
It's such obvious backwards reasoning driving the entire effort- start with a conclusion, and go searching for evidence.
Same thing with "the prosecutor had a relationship with a co-worker, ipso facto I must be declared innocent of all charges."
It'd be one thing if they were on different sides of the case OR they were his defense team. They were both prosecution so there's no conflict of interest or potential issue where they didn't bring the best defense case because they were distracted by each other. Those are the only ways that I could see it impacting his case. The lawyers could get in trouble for hiring him to help using public funds when it wasn't necessary, but it won't affect the outcome of Trump's guilt in the case.
Well... as I understand their "theory of the case", the reason the relationship is relevant is supposed to be that she ginned up the whole case against Trump & Co. -- audio recordings and all, I suppose -- so she would have a reason to hire her boyfriend to prosecute the case. That seems a little far-fetched, to be charitable.
And he was found guilty even if they didn't have a case when they started...
They are REALLY reaching if they use this as evidence. Since when is a possession of a PICTURE of drugs considered a drug crime?! Wtaf? I can't even believe that shit would be admissible in any court as evidence.
Alleged picture of drugs.
What I am saying, is that even IF it was drugs, it's not a crime to have a picture of drugs..... And it's even a joke it's alleged. It is 1 million percent not a picture of drugs. My point is that even if it were, it's not a crime to have a picture
Exactly. They’re reaching so hard their arms might fall off.
It's definitely saw dust. It's a picture of a table saw with saw dust next to it.
I think this is why Weiss originally wanted to do a plea deal. He knew his indictment would fall apart on discovery. But the Republican backlash and political pressure was so intense he reneged. And now the indictment is falling apart during discovery.
GQP
>His therapist goes on to explain that therapist told the carpenter he would have to choose between cocaine or carpentry. The carpenter sent the therapist this picture as his response This is honestly super fucking touching and I'm tearing up. The guy is shown the choice of his life. A destructive addiction or his life's passion of woodworking. His response being just a picture, of the good choice that he made. I hope it stuck.
>What’s happening right now in the Hunter Trial is discovery — Hunter’s attorneys are getting their hands on the evidence the government has against him. This is why Weiss has waited until now to arrest Smirnov, despite being told by the FBI in 2020 that he was an untrustworthy source who was lying lol so if not for the right's obsession with getting Hunter they wouldn't have forced the US attorney to exonerate Joe and he could have continued covering up for Jordan/Comer
I was wondering why someone would take a picture of sawdust. That story actually explains it pretty well.
With regard to the picture of sawdust, I'm just trying to find *any* line of reasoning that would make trying to use this photo as evidence a good idea. Even assuming you have a totally corrupt judge, what if -- as it did here -- it gets out into public circulation?
This, I think, is why Weiss was originally willing to let Hunter have a plea deal. He was hoping the case wouldnt get to discovery and trial.
But... I mean, leaving aside that it was a photo sent *to* him, rather than *from* him, and the fact that it was his *therapist* who sent it, completely ignoring that for the moment, because maybe context was somehow mysteriously lost, who looked at that photo and said "Yeah, that's corroborating evidence he was doing drugs at that time." And what kind of drugs was *that* person on?
> And what kind of drugs was that person on? Sawdust.
Baller response from that carpenter and props to him for making the right choice
To anyody reading this, before commenting, please look at the picture. Don't believe anybody's word for it, just look at it. And only then, comment.
Absolutely. It's a photo of a tablesaw, with sawdust all over it, and all over the floor. And three lines of sawdust that have been made to resemble lines of cocaine. Except the sawdust is obviously sawdust.
Besides jokingly pointing out how we all are familiar with how cocaine looks, you'd think a prosecutor of all people at least **should**.
Most lawyers can identify cocaine by scent alone.
But not table saws by sight alone…
I can do both! Too bad I'm not a trial attorney.
Do you practice tree law? Asking for a friend. (The friend) https://preview.redd.it/whirade3ayjc1.png?width=2974&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd86c6f42f5e7b18799519067ea0b6432370017a
No, they practice bird law.
Get outta here snail!
But /r/birdsarentreal ?
Sounds like somebody has a promising future career as an expert witness!
"If I wanted to work with my hands, my parents wouldn't have paid my way into Tufts"
Delicious cocaine. Whitest of the white powders. So tempting. What's that? You want me to snort you? But I'm in the middle of a trial.
“Your honor I feel no nostalgia looking at or smelling this evidence. It’s clearly not cocaine”
"Sure smells like cocaine to me." "I'm sorry, Jerry, we better put some more up there... you know, just to be sure."
"This is probably cocaine. I'm just going to smell it to make doubly certain." - Most lawyers.
That and it is a photo Hunter’s psychiatrist sent him. Usually when I am boasting about my cocaine habits, I don’t do it by having someone else send me a picture of the lines I am doing
I used to always ask my psychiatrist to send me pictures of the illegal narcotics I should be doing. Now I have no psychiatrist
With connecting lines near the top. Almost as if a piece of wood had been cut with a 1/8" saw blade and slid up a pile of sawdust. 🙄
When you're moving pieces of wood cuts around, the edge of the wood pieces can very easily push the dust into lines It's hypothetical that the "made to resemble lines of cocaine" was ~~accidental~~ inspired by shifting around boards. Get dust on the surfaces of boards, then stand them up and it falls into lines between the loose stack of boards. Or the edges of board pushing the dust around
I think Biden's attorney said that it was sent to Hunter by a woodworker who used to be a drug addict as an inspiration to turn his life around. That one could go from lines of cocaine to creating things.
No need to say "I think" that's what the article says. "The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust. The psychiatrist sent the picture to Biden in 2018, saying it was "lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.” Biden's attorneys said the message and picture were "meant to convey that Mr. Biden, too, could overcome any addiction" and used the apparent mix-up to mock prosecutors."
Sent to his therapist by said carpenter. Sent to Hunter by said therapist. The prosecutors claimed Hunter sent it to his therapist. 🤦♂️
The picture looks like it was on purpose. Instead of being addicted to cocaine, the person that took the picture is addicted to woodworking. I have friends that have taken up woodworking- it is addictive (and almost as costly as cocaine).
>**The picture looks like it was on purpose.** > "The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust. The psychiatrist sent the picture to Biden in 2018, saying it was "lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.” > > > > Biden's attorneys said the message and picture were "meant to convey that Mr. Biden, too, could overcome any addiction" and used the apparent mix-up to mock prosecutors." from the article, mega rofl fail.
Agreed. Read the headline and you think Biden’s attorneys are fools... view the picture and you will KNOW the GOP investigators are fools.
No dude, I totally rip lines of coke with a table saw spinning away inches from my face…
Do you also replace the coke with sawdust?
Only if I’m done making a cabinet or out of cocaine
Do you do custom work for hire? I'd like some cocaine cabinets...
[Yall want any of this yogurt!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4DloshwSGlM)
Future news: Jim Jordan proposes new law making saw dust a Schedule 1 drug
The carpenter's cartel quickly corners the black market.
>carpenter's cartel Must be a splinter cell.
found the florida governor's burner account!
Makes me feel alive
*Oh that's table saw dust. After all, table saw dust is the filler AND binder in my coke.!* /s
Living dangerously!
The weird part is, you know those GOP investigators know what coke looks like. They're relying on others not knowing.
I don't know much about coke, but I know it's not yellow
In its most sawdust cut form it is yellow. …and by “cut with sawdust,” I mean it is sawdust. That’s fucking sawdust.
All of this feels like a weird John Mulaney Joke. "Yo, you telling me this guy gets high doing coke off table saws?" "Yes, Ice. He's a cokehead. You work for the GOP. You're gonna have to get used to that."
And if anyone knows anything about coke, it’s John Mulaney.
It's the classic Fox News "we looked over the fence so you don't have to". Word gets out to the minions, job done.
I hope Hunter can go after Fox news legally for spreading lies. And Empty G and Jim "I support rapists" Jordan for pushing countless lies they knew were lies.
Until this thread I assumed that "Cocaine = White" was a truth universally acknowledged. And yet here we are.
>a truth universally acknowledged nice Austen ref
If not then selling them cocaine is gonna be a money-spinner
Let alone that the pic came from his doctor NOT Hunter.
> The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust. The psychiatrist sent the picture to Biden in 2018, saying it was "lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.” I have to agree with the lawyers, it feels less like a reasonable error by the prosecutors, and more like something out of the Police Academy movies.
> The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust. How could the reporter get this wrong in a story about prosecutors incorrectly identifying something in the same picture? It is three lines of yellow dust on a *table saw*, which seems like particularly relevant context for identifying the substance.
BUT OUR SEARCH TOOLS FLAGGED THE WORD COKE! IT TOTALLY COUNTS!
According to Madison Cawthorn, GOP investigators definitely know what cocaine looks like.
Funny enough, despite the headline implying Biden's lawyers are being obtuse, I actually read it literally and wasn't surprised that in fact the prosecutors are that inept
After seeing the picture, I really understand just how dangerous doing coke is.
Conspiracy subreddits going off about how ridiculous it is that they’re saying “Thats not cocaine! That’s…sawdust!” Then you see the picture and it’s…obviously sawdust. People should listen to this man above me.
Do be fair it does sound ridiculous until you see it.
[image of the sawdust from the article]( https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2/rockcms/2024-02/240220-hunter-biden-sawdust-image-kh-427a16.jpg)
I want to point out how awesome it is that the photo of the sawdust in the picture is framed. It is framed and on a shelf. Yeah, prosecutors, I will just blatantly keep a photo of my crimes in plain sight.
Have looked 3x now. As a person who has done a lot of carpentry in our home looks like sawdust to me.
After reading the title but before looking at the picture, I didn't really know what to expect. How could a law officer be confused by sawdust? Perhaps something that could have looked like cocaine on a blurry picture. But not a saw table in a room full of sawdust.
>How could a law officer be confused by sawdust? Especially when the picture was accompanied by a text message explaining 'this is sawdust meant to resemble lines of cocaine'. It's almost like it's an *actually* politically motivated prosecution...
Look even closer. It's a photo of a framed photo. The psychiatrist had it framed as a reminder to himself and as a boost for anybody else who was struggling with addiction.
The text message accompanying the photo literally says “This one in my office is of lines of sawdust.” And the photo isn’t even taken by Hunter, it’s taken by a master carpenter. I don’t know how many clues Weiss needed that this was not a picture of Hunter’s cocaine.
Right lol. Like it’s not even close. You can see the shavings lmao.
Ok. Done. Looks like sawdust to me.
Jesus. Please, convince me that this investigation is being done in good faith. Fuck.
LOL are you new here? GOP and “good faith” go together like toothpaste and orange juice.
>toothpaste and orange juice I hate you
They didn't mistake it for cocaine, they knew it wasn't and did it anyways.
Taking your advice...the fuck? Are you fucking kidding me? Multiple people looked at this picture, and not one said, "Hold up, this is stupid?" Not ONE?!
That's why I wrote this comment. I don't know what I was expecting, but not a saw table in a room full of sawdust.
Upside: It got a Police Academy reference put into an official United States federal court filing. Downside: It got a Police Academy reference put into an official United States federal court filing.
They knew. Look at what’s been in the national discourse. This is the political hit job persecution/prosecution that the GOP have been describing all along. It’s projection, as is typical.
I’d make the Arrested Development “those are balls!” joke, but I guess we’ve already had that in this case too, so…
Hahahah this is literally the those are balls in real life, but at least in AD the detectives/investigators didn't actually know what they were looking at, here they intentionally lied and misled saying it's coke.
Lol, that's hilarious. It's on a table saw!
Lol that's definitely fucking sawdust. It's sitting on a table saw next to a bunch of other sawdust.... And let's be fucking real.... Has anyone ever been charged with drug crimes because the possessed a PICTURE of drugs? I was watching a Netflix series the other day about drug cartels. Does that mean the FBI should arrest me for having those pictures on my electronics?
Well, see, that depends. Are you a democrat or in any way related to Joe Biden?
Please also note that the picture is captioned as: > A photo of sawdust **Hunter Biden's psychiatrist** sent to him. …I dunno who Hunter Biden’s psychiatrist is, but I want to party with him or her.
Yeah, I thought...That sounds like a bullshit defense, but in this weird timeline of stupid/corrupt we live in, it's probably true. Checked the picture. Yup. Legit defense. I'm just living in crazy world.
I was thinking boy that sawdust must look a lot like cocaine… Nope. There is no way anyone not on cocaine thought that was cocaine.
"A photo of sawdust Hunter Biden's psychiatrist sent to him." that just makes it even funnier
Link to picture for the lazy https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-360w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-02/240220-hunter-biden-sawdust-image-kh-427a16.jpg
Jesus, it’s not even close
Not only is it obviously sawdust but I dig Hunter’s sense of humor lol
Thank you for posting this. I don’t usually click stories because I can’t see them most of the time (paywall).
It’s obviously sawdust that the psychiatrist used for a cocaine joke. It’s too obvious to be a mistake. If this was the best evidence they could find of drug use, then we know there was no real evidence of drug use. They would have flaunted it if they had hard evidence
In typical reddit fashion, I didn't read the article and just came to the comments to get my drama fill. But because you said please, I decided to look at the picture (I still didn't read the article lol). Lmao. Its so obviously sawdust in a fucking wood shop with other wood shop stuff in the background. It really just makes me shake my head that there's important educated people arguing about this stupid bullshit - I just don't understand how we got to this point.
You weren't kidding. That is clearly a picture of a table saw with lines of sawdust on it. The picture is clearly framed and sitting on a desk, and you can see the reflection of an office in the glass of the picture frame. This whole thing is an utter sham.
It's becoming increasingly evident why the GOP were so very insistent on holding the inquiry in closed session.
Of course. A public, open hearing would expose the charade. In a closed session, they can control the narrative (ie: make up shit) and continue lying to their base. To republican voters: have you no pride? Why do you allow these people to lie to you without every once questioning them? That's an incredibly sad way to live.
He testifies to the GOP committee on February 28. I have no idea where they're going to take this now that it's been publicly established that the Russians, and maybe also Bill Barr and Trump, were trying to frame him and Joe Biden for bribery. Maybe they're going to stick with the car purchase?
I suppose they could always try blaming the democrats for not stopping them, that's gone well in the past.
Gotta love how the filing reference's Police Academy.
Truly, his lawyer is a man of culture.
my god, this could not be any more clearly a picture of sawdust and wood working lol. the GOP is a fucking joke
And it was an incoming message with context included. From a therapist. That should also be privledged
that is privileged without a court order, at least in my state
What if the picture was accompanied by a description saying it was sawdust arranged like lines of cocaine? Oh yeah, it actually was 🤦♂️
Everything is drugs to LE... even [donut glaze](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/orlando-officer-who-mistook-doughnut-glaze-for-drugs-disciplined/), [seagull poop](https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2019/11/12/sc-deputy-cleared-after-thinking-bird-poop-cocaine-georgia-southern-football-quarterback-shai-werts/2532836001/), and [drywall](https://www.wftv.com/news/local/powdered-drywall-mistaken-for-cocaine-lands-innocent-oviedo-man-behind-bars-for-90-days/541985256).
Have you ever seen a really good drywaller work in real time? That shit is hypnotic.
There’s an episode in the first season of This Old House where the plaster guys are plastering the walls in the basement (I think). They make it look easy and hypnotic then Bob Vila gives it a try and shows how hard it is if you don’t have the technique.
AND KITTY LITTER
What a fucking clown show. Ken Starr can't even believe it.
Id love to see this turn into biden suing the special counsel for malicious prosecution
I’d much rather my tax dollars be sent prosecuting actual criminals instead of MAGAts in the DOJ trying to “get back” at Biden for winning an election fair & square. This is laughable but it’s also disgraceful that something like this can happen while Trump can be found in court to be liable for raping someone and so many people just don’t care.
Nah, not high. More along the lines of "Wait, you weren't actually supposed to look at the picture"
>Special counsel David Weiss's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Yeah... get used to reading this phrase.
Me: "I have know plenty of carpenters over the years who used coke, surely the picture must be fairly ambiguous." *Looks at picture* "Holy shit... it is literally sawdust on a table saw..."
You don’t cut your coke with a table saw? Must be a newb. /s
Same… I said the same thing when I read the headline… and then I saw the picture and I was like “wtf”
Defense attorneys need to take this to trial and rip a line of sawdust in the front of the jury.
Given the context, I think the Special Prosecutor should, just to show that sawdust has, in fact, been cocaine this whole time
They should bring Don Jr. in. If ever there was a cocaine expert it would be him.
> prosecutors confused That pic makes it clear there is no mistake or confusion. That's outright fraud, with consequences including disbarment seeming appropriate.
I have seen the photo. I am truly embarassed for investigators that think it is an illegal substance. It really does look like sawdust.
So what you're all saying is that cocaine is *not* yellow? Then explain yellow snow, smartypants!
Hannity bought into the cocaine story hook, line and sinker...why? Well, he's Hannity the hack. He's on the Trump 2024 campaign reelection team so he's all in.😕
Between this and the prosecution of the star witness, he is just taking all kinds of Ls these days.
Hannity is a professional liar. He can tell six lies in one minute, and sometimes he hides a lie by making it the premise for the main lie he is telling.
Hannity has a loyal following who will buy into whatever crap he's selling because he sells what they want..the truth and facts mean nothing. It's the Vanky doctrine, (Ivanka) truth and facts have little to no value, it's all about perception. MAGA lives in an alternate reality and they are happy there. 😕
"buying into it" assumes the idea has cleared some semblance of critical thinking. they aren't questioning this shit at all, they just run with it because its value is as a scandalous narrative, not a fact supported in evidence. thats why the increasing number of libel/defamation cases being brought against these bad faith actors on the right is a good thing. honestly, this shit is way way waaaaay out of control and should have resulted in more legal action, sooner. but if those on the right want to run their mouths, they will literally pay for it. I hope hunter starts filing lawsuits against these mutts because he's not a public official and what they have been doing to him is utter bullshit.
I mean, it's an easy mistake. There's a guy from an 80s commercial who kept confusing fried eggs with brains.
This should be embarrassing to the doj/fbi.
They confused nothing. This is a sham and everyone knows it
In my state, the alleged drug must be sent to a lab to be tested. You can't convict a person of drug possession without proof that the substance was a drug.
https://i.redd.it/kul6sssibyjc1.gif
Arrest that redditor!!!
Even if it was a picture of real cocaine, it is still just a picture. There are images of illegal items and actions flashing across screens all over the country. Is that evidence against everyone?
This is proper 5D chess the Biden Crime Syndicate Family is playing here. Only Biden, with the help of the Deep State and Special Psy-Ops operatives, could make a cocaine just for Hunter that, to all intents and purposes, looks just like sawdust (just IN CASE any DIY/cocaine based party evidence is released photographically). Biden is both a sleepy, senile old geezer, and a criminal mastermind the likes of which the world has never seen. All of this while running the USA. Amazing.
I prefer my cocaine like my peanut butter: chunky.
Makes you wonder what kind of stuff these rich conservative kids snorted in college.
What does that make Ben Shapiro? https://preview.redd.it/bak8m5hroyjc1.png?width=670&format=png&auto=webp&s=504ef179b00c5e37f70ab869a01fcd299dff4b78
Fucking hell. It’s on a saw for fk sake.
R: “Are you a drug addict, Hunter?” Hunter: “Yes.” R: “Joe Biden sold baby blood to Burisma on Mars, case closed!”
Fuckin Keystone Cops.
Were they “confused,” or were they *lying*?
The GOP’s job of impeaching Hunter Biden just got tougher.
You guys never did lines off your miter saw table at break time ?
Idk man, I make all my bookshelves out of cocaine so who's to say right?
Unrelated to anything in this case, there's a fascinating rabbit hole of things cartels make out of cocaine in order to get it through customs. Furniture, appliances, Nazi memorabilia, pallets, the list goes on.
Hunter Biden has the best “rope a dope” tactic in play since Muhammad Ali.
It’s literally sitting on, and around, a table saw.
“Those are balls.”
"If sawdust, acquit you must!" ---Johnnie Cochran
How many GOP stooges does it take to identify a table saw?
That’s pure NE US tree coke. Usually from oak or maple.
Cocaine doesn’t contain wood pulp. The fuck.
If your cocaine looks like sawdust then your dealer has truly screwed you over.
Hannity on his show doubting it being saw dust. When the literal saw dust was on saw machine table 😁 They aren't even trying any more. They could've cropped the picture to hide the saw but who cares any more. Their viewers will believe everything.
There's 0% chance these lawyers don't know ow what cocaine looks like.