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Two of Hunter Biden's exes testified before a Delaware court on Wednesday regarding the first son's history of using crack cocaine, as the prosecution builds its case that Biden illegally purchased a handgun while falsely claiming to be sober from drugs.

Biden's ex-wife Kathleen Buhle testified that while she never saw Biden doing drugs, she found a crack pipe in an ashtray on their porch in 2015, after which he "acknowledged smoking crack." After that point, Buhle said, she found pipes and drug paraphernalia on more than one occasion in Biden's car, and his drug use was discussed as an "addiction" during the couple's therapy sessions.

Buhle and Biden divorced in 2017, the year before the first son's October 2018 purchase of a handgun, for which he signed a federal form claiming not to be an addict or illegal drug user. Buhle told the court on Wednesday that she would search Biden's car for drugs in fall 2018 when her daughters were using it.

After Buhle's testimony, Biden's ex-girlfriend, lingerie designer Zoe Kestan, took the stand, describing her relationship with Biden as one in which the first son was nearly constantly using crack. Kestan, who dated Biden from December 2017 to October 2018, said she saw Biden smoke crack "every 20 minutes or so," taking breaks only for sleep.

The prosecution on Wednesday showed a May 2018 photo Kestan took of Biden's hotel room, showing materials Biden used to make crack. "I was quite angry that I had to clean it up," Kestan testified.

Biden's defense attorney Abbe Lowell argued that he did not knowingly lie in signing the federal form, saying his drug use had decreased by the time of the October 2018 purchase and that he did not consider himself an addict. Lowell tried Wednesday to cast doubt on whether Biden was telling the truth in text messages he sent the month of the gun purchase that referenced smoking crack.

The first son could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted on all charges over the gun purchase.

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