Hunter Biden's Recorded Call Reveals His Admission of Doing Drugs With Late D.C. Mayor Marion Barry
Hunter Biden had revealed to a friend in a recorded call that he used to smoke crack with Marion Barry, the late former mayor of Washington D.C.
According to a Daily Mail report, Hunter Biden bragged in the January 2019 phone call that he regularly smoked crack with the late mayor in the restroom of a Georgetown bar while he was an undergraduate there.
The eight-minute phone call, obtained by Daily Mail, was saved on Hunter's abandoned laptop. It contradicts Hunter's claim in his memoir that his arrest as a teenager scared him off drugs until after college.
In the recorded call, the president's son initially rebuked his friend for being "racist" after the guy suggested that Martin Luther King had taken cocaine. However, Hunter Biden later admitted that he smoked crack with civil rights hero and infamous addict Marion Barry.
"You know what? I actually smoked crack with Marion Barry. I swear to f**king God. I was in Georgetown and he used to go to a place right next to The Guards," Hunter told his unnamed friend.
"And I was a sophomore... But he used to come there and drink, like late-late. And I would be there. And he would go the bathroom," he added. The president's son was reportedly referring to a bar near the Georgetown University campus.
The late mayor of Washington D.C., who died in 2014, was earlier caught on video with a woman in a hotel room smoking crack.
Marion Barry claimed that he was set up by his enemies in D.C. who were unhappy with the number of city contracts he was giving to Black business owners.
Barry said he first experimented with cocaine in the late 1980s when he found himself alone with a woman at a friend's house after hours-long of drinking. The former mayor was married at the time.
His conviction did not affect much the support he had and did not prevent him from winning the mayoral election again in 1994. In addition, a leading D.C. paper had named him "Mayor for life."
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Hunter Biden's Laptop
According to a New York Post report, the hard drive on Hunter's laptop also contains other recordings that point to his admitted drug use. It also included a 12-minute video that appears to show him smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman.
Hunter Biden had also earlier admitted the extend of his drug use in an interview with CBS This Morning, wherein he said that he spent more time on his hands and knees picking through rugs and smoking anything that resembled crack cocaine.
Hunter also said that he once went on 13 days smoking crack and drinking vodka without sleeping throughout the entire time, according to The Sun report.
Hunter Biden's water-damaged laptop was dropped off in 2019 at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, but it was never retrieved. The FBI reportedly seized the laptop as part of what Hunter's described as "my tax affairs" probe.
Reports had circulated claiming that forensic experts verified the authenticity of messages and images in Hunter's laptop, detailing his private life. The laptop's contents were controversial because it timed during his father, President Joe Biden's presidential election, Business Insider reported.
Materials from the laptop had indicated that Joe Biden had been compromised by his son's business dealings in Ukraine. Hunter Biden was on the board of the energy firm Burisma.
Critics claimed that other emails contained evidence of influence-peddling by Hunter Biden in China. However, neither claim was substantiated.
The Daily Mail said it had obtained 103,000 text messages, 154,000 emails, and more than 2,000 photos from a copy of the hard drive of Hunter Biden's laptop.
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