While his father, President Joe Biden, has not travelled to be with his son, other members of Hunter Biden’s family are alongside him during his federal trial in Delaware, including his wife Melissa Cohen-Biden.Cohen-Biden, 38, was seen walking with her husband of five years into the Wilmington courthouse every day this week, even confronting a Trump ally in a hallway at the building.Biden is accused of lying on federal documents when he purchased a firearm in 2018 while under the influence of or addicted to drugs. The 54-year-old is the first child of a sitting U.S. president to be criminally tried in federal court.Cohen-Biden, who is originally from South Africa and is an activist and film maker, walked alongside her husband into the courthouse Wednesday even on a day when the witnesses taking the stand include his ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle.Jurors could also hear from Hunter’s former girlfriend, Zoe Kestan, as well as Hallie Biden, the widow of his late brother Beau Biden, with whom Hunter also had a brief relationship.Cohen met Hunter in 2019The couple met in May 2019 and Biden proposed to her less than a week later. She accepted the following day and they married shortly after.While Joe Biden wasn’t at the ceremony, which was filmed on a cellphone, his son told The New Yorker in 2019 that his father had given his approval of the marriage.”‘Thank you for giving my son the courage to love again.'” Biden said his father told Cohen over speaker phone.The couple have matching tattoos of the word “shalom” in Hebrew on their left biceps.In March 2020, the couple had a son, whom they named Beau after Hunter’s older brother who died in 2015.Cohen was adoptedCohen was born in Johannesburg and lived in an orphanage for the first year of her life, Hollywood Life reported, before her adoption into a Jewish family.After attending the Greenside Design Center College of Design, she moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21.There, she attended a horticulture program at UCLA.Biden’s wife has worked for several years as an environmental activist, including with Greenpeace and through her own company “Tribal Worlds”.Cohen is supporting Hunter during his trialBiden’s wife has been in Wilmington alongside him during his trial and made headlines herself on Tuesday after confronting a former aide of the Trump White House.The 12-member jury heard opening statements Tuesday and testimony from an FBI agent who read aloud some of Biden’s personal messages including some that came from a laptop he left at a Delaware repair shop and never retrieved. In 2020, the contents made their way to Republicans and were publicly leaked, revealing some highly personal messages about his work and his life. He has since sued over the leaked information.Garrett Ziegler, who has been part of an effort to make the contents of Biden’s laptop public, has been in the courtroom.Biden sued Ziegler and his company he owns, Marco Polo, in September 2023, after they allegedly created a searchable online database with 128,000 emails on it.Cohen appeared to be unhappy with the former Trump aide’s presence and approached him during a break in proceedings on Tuesday.”You have no right to be here, you Nazi piece of s***,” she was heard saying, before walking away.It was reported that Ziegler did not respond to Cohen in the hallway, with Cohen returning to the courtroom to sit with First Lady Jill Biden.Federal prosecutors also spent hours on Monday showing jurors evidence of his drug problem and his lying.
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