as naomi testified in a subdued voice, her father appeared to be fighting back tears, watching her. now a 30-year-old lawyer, naomi told jurors that when she saw her father while he was in rehab in california in august 2018, a few weeks before he purchased the gun, he "seemed like the clearest that i had seen him since my uncle died," referring to beau biden, who died in 2015. and when she saw him a week after he bought the gun, her dad "seemed great, he seemed hopeful." that bolsters the defense case that when he bought the gun, hunter biden was not abusing drugs. but a starkly different picture emerged on cross-examination, as prosecutor leo wise confronted naomi biden with desperate text messages she sent her dad six days after he bought that gun. "i'm really sorry, dad, i can't take this. i just miss you so much, i just want to hang out with you." hunter texting back, "i'm sorry i've been so unreachable, it's not fair to you."