Federal prosecutors plan to deploy thousands of pages of electronic records from first son Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” and other technology — including a message demanding more “chore boy” to smoke crack cocaine, court papers show.
Whatever prosecutors from the office of special counsel David Weiss introduce will have to pass muster with federal judge Maryellen Noreika, who ruled Friday that the 54-year-old’s lawyers will be allowed to raise objections to data on a case-by-case basis.
However, Noreika declined to block the laptop outright from evidence, rejecting defense arguments that the hard drive had been hacked and false information had been planted.
In all, the feds say, they have more than 18,000 pages of electronic records from the laptop, a hard drive and an iCloud account linked to Hunter’s iPad and iPhone XR, which they want to summarize in a chart for jurors.
Included in the sea of data is a message from Hunter that says, “I need more chore boy,” according to court papers filed by prosecutors on Wednesday.
The feds say the younger Biden’s message used the phrase the same way he used it in his book “Beautiful Things: A Memoir,” in which he explains that a Chore Boy “is a spun-copper scouring pad” that addicts use “as a screen to hold the crack in their rose pipes.”
He noted it’s also referred to as “choy.”
“We just planted ourselves on the couch and smoked a ton of crack,” reads another passage of the book. “For endless hours, day after day, it was the same numbing ritual, over and over and over: pipe, Chore Boy, crack, light; pipe, Chore Boy, crack, light; pipe, Chore Boy, crack, light.”
Prosecutors said the chart will also include photos and videos of Hunter with a crack pipe and messages about drugs from December 2018 to March 2019.
Hunter’s lawyers warned in papers filed Thursday that they may object at trial to the introduction of some of the contents, such as “inflammatory text messages,” on the grounds that they are prejudicial to their client.
Hunter’s team also said they should be allowed to object to some of the laptop evidence being shown, claiming the hard drive was hacked and the incriminating evidence was planted there.
But prosecutors say they would be able to corroborate and prove the digital evidence they plan to show is authentic and taken from Biden’s own devices.
Weiss’ prosecutors also want to include messages between Hunter and “Witness 3,” previously identified by The Post as his sister-in-law-turned-lover Hallie Biden, that were sent to and from the phone of Hunter’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle and thus “not synced to his iCloud account.”
The first son — who was in a Delaware federal court on Friday for a pre-trial conference, one day after attending a White House state dinner — faces three charges connected to allegations he bought a Colt Cobra .38-caliber revolver on Oct. 12, 2018, after denying on an application form that he was addicted to drugs, despite being in the throes of a crack cocaine dependency at the time.
In “Beautiful Things,” Hunter admitted to being hooked on the highly addictive street drug from 2015 through 2019, which the feds claim proves he lied when he checked a box on a form saying he didn’t use drugs when he bought the gun.
The first son faces up to 25 years behind bars if convicted on all counts.
Hallie Biden ditched the gun days after Hunter bought it — prompting an angry outburst from the now-first son.
The younger Biden also faces tax evasion charges in Los Angeles, with trial in that case due to begin Sept. 5.
He’s pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Hunter had been on track to plead guilty in the gun case last year until the deal he struck with prosecutors blew up in court after the feds said they couldn’t promise he’d be clear of charges in the tax case.
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice declined to comment. Hunter’s defense lawyer didn’t immediately return a request for comment Friday.
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