'No one is above the law': Prosecutors argue even Hunter Biden must be held accountable in opening statement

WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in his opening statement in the Hunter Biden trial that at the end of the case he should be found guilty of all charges because "No one is above the law."

"It doesn’t matter who you are, or what your name is,” prosecutor Derek Hines said, as he laid out special counsel David Weiss' case against President Joe Biden's son.

Defendants are tried “because of the choices they made,” Hines said. Hunter Biden, he added, “chose to illegally own a firearm. His ownership of that firearm was illegal because he was a user of crack, and a drug addict. The law prohibits users and drug addicts from owning a gun. That law makes no distinction between Hunter Biden and anybody else."

Hunter Biden also “chose to lie” about his drug use when he bought the weapon, Hines said.