The indictment alleges Biden certified on a federally mandated form “that he was not an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance, when in fact, as he knew, that statement was false and fictitious.”

However, Biden’s counsel, Abbe Lowell, maintained that “at the time that he purchased this gun, I don’t think there’s evidence that that’s when he was suffering.” Lowell said that Biden had already emerged from rehabilitation when he signed the form.

That is a shift from the previous year during which Hunter’s addiction was used as a final line of defense. … [T]he media embraced the troubled-son-of-the-president narrative. The prostitutes, the tax evasion, the gun violations, and other alleged crimes were just the face of the addiction.

Now, however, we are told that Hunter surfaced in sobriety just in time to sign a federal gun form.

[This is beginning to look like a spaghetti strategy of legal defense: take random strands and throw them up against the wall to see if they stick. As Turley points out, though, Lowell has a huge problem, and that’s Hunter himself and the book he wrote to congratulate himself for getting over his addictions … no earlier than 2019, a year AFTER he signed the firearm form. Can’t wait to hear the defense claim that Hunter misquoted himself. — Ed]