The mix-up "sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980’s Police Academy comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution,” Biden’s attorney wrote.

Federal prosecutors mistakenly claimed in a court filing that a photo of sawdust they found while searching Hunter Biden’s electronics was cocaine, attorneys for the president’s son said Tuesday.

The sawdust picture was used in a court filing detailing incriminating information that prosecutors said they turned up while executing a search warrant of Biden’s laptop and electronics, but his legal team said in court papers that the picture was sent to their client by his then-psychiatrist as inspiration.

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.

  • @[email protected]
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    599 months ago

    I want to know how much fucking money repubs are spending on this wild goose chase. Completely ridiculous.

    • Flying Squid
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      259 months ago

      Can we start a betting pool on whether this or Benghazi will end up costing the taxpayers more money?

    • @Illuminostro
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      9 months ago

      As much as it takes, the cruelty is priceless.

    • @Madison420
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      49 months ago

      Well into the millions at this point, I wouldn’t say all be surprised if it is already fiscally equal to the whitewater kerfuffle (52 million).