Hunter Biden jurors sound off on why calling his daughter to the stand was a critical mistake

Two of the jurors who eldest daughter Naomi’s testimony — with one panelist saying the defense team made a mistake calling her as a witness.

Naomi Biden, 30, recounted her father’s erratic behavior in the days after he illegally lied about his crack cocaine addiction to purchase a .38-caliber revolver on Oct. 12, 2018.

At one point, she said, Hunter had texted her at 2 a.m. Oct. 18, asking if Naomi could meet him somewhere in Manhattan to exchange cars after she used his Ford Raptor pickup to help move her then-boyfriend Peter Neal into her apartment.

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“I’m really sad, dad,” Naomi texted Hunter later that day after he missed out on another planned rendezvous.

“I can’t take this. I don’t know what to say. I just miss you so much. And want to hang out with you.”

“It just seemed so sad for her to see her father in such a state,” one juror, a 51-year-old black woman from upper Delaware, told The Post.

“She was happy when she thought he was getting better, then he relapsed.”

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“I just think she probably just wants her dad to be like he was before her uncle [Beau Biden] died [in May 2015],” she added.

“And to be able to depend on him.”

A second juror, a 68-year-old white man from Sussex County, agreed that Naomi’s testimony was effective — but not in the way Hunter’s lawyers had hoped.

“I felt sorry for Naomi, I really did,” he said.

“I don’t think any daughter should have to be up there testifying on her father’s behalf.”

“That was heart-wrenching and I think all the jurors felt the same thing.”

When asked if lead defense attorney Abbe Lowell made the wrong move by calling Naomi to the stand, the Sussex County juror confessed that he “probably wouldn’t have called her.”

The jury was also swayed by damning text messages between Hunter Biden and his sister-in-law-turned-lover, Hallie.

When Hallie Biden took the stand for the prosecution last week, she was shown a text message from Oct. 13, 2018 — the day after Hunter bought the gun — in which he told her he was “waiting for a dealer named Mookie” in response to her asking where he was.

When asked what she thought Hunter was referring to, Hallie said on the stand: “That he was buying crack cocaine.”

The next day, Oct. 14, Hunter told Hallie that he hadn’t communicated with her because he was “sleeping on a car smoking crack,” adding: “That’s my truth.”

“[The text messages showed], in my opinion, he was trying to get drugs,” the female juror said, adding that President Biden’s 54-year-old son “looks kind of defeated.”

“He looks kind of helpless to me,” she added. “I think he just needs to get away somewhere and get some real rehab, if he hasn’t. Hopefully he’s still not using.”

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The Sussex County juror agreed that photos and text messages built the backbone of the prosecution’s case.

“We all knew Hunter Biden was a drug addict, and he was addicted, and he was making [drug] deals like 12 days prior to buying the gun, so in his mind, how could he write ‘No,’ he was not an addict?” the panelist said.

“Prior to him buying the gun, he was making [drug] deals, and so that played a big part in the decision,” the man reiterated.

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“The day before he bought the gun, he was at 7-Eleven. What was he doing there? The defense wanted us to believe he was just there to buy a cup of coffee, but I didn’t buy that. He wasn’t there to buy a cup of coffee.”

After deliberating for an hour Monday afternoon, the man revealed, the jury was divided 6-6 on conviction in an informal vote.

“I think the ones who said ‘not guilty,’ they just wanted to make sure before they came to a conclusion, and I think that’s why the [preliminary] vote was the way it was,” he told The Post.

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By the time the jury reconvened Tuesday, five panelists had changed their minds.

One woman remained unconvinced that Hunter was on crack when he purchased the gun, but switched her vote after going back over the evidence, the man added.

“On the first count, the lying [to a federally licensed gun dealer] count, there was a little holdout,” the juror explained. “The way the question on the form, the way it was phrased, did he intentionally know he was a drug user? One person really wasn’t convinced on that.”

Both jurors said they felt bad for the Biden family throughout the testimony, which traced Hunter’s spiral into addiction.

“When I looked at [first lady Jill Biden], I really felt bad for the family and that the family had to listen to everything that was said,” the Sussex County juror admitted.

“I don’t know if the family knew all the details about what Hunter had been through and I don’t think Hunter revealed everything [he] had gone through. I am sure it was a shock to them,” he noted.

Despite their sympathy, however, the panelists insisted that politics did not factor into their decision.

“I didn’t feel pressure, not because his father’s the president, I just think he needs help,” the female juror said, adding that the prosecution of Hunter Biden “was a waste of taxpayers’ dollars” and “they could have just fined him.”

The first son, she added, “needs rehab, definitely not imprisonment.”

“Hunter Biden was on trial and he was just like anybody else. Nobody’s above the law, no matter who you are. Politics played no part in this whatsoever,” the Sussex County juror told The Post, adding that “I don’t think” the first son should be thrown behind bars.

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Despite the potential effect of the case on the November presidential election, the female juror said she and her colleagues “worked together really well.”

“I was expecting all of us to be at each other’s throats, you know, because of who his father is and how the political climate is in this country,” she said.

“It turned out much better than expected. There was no fighting in the jury room.”