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 The charges against Trump 

“Shocking, embarrassing and strikingly personal”  

CNN sums up the hearing with prosecutor Fani Willis in Georgia in the US in a harsh tone: "Shocking, embarrassing and strikingly personal."  

 

Willis is the prosecutor in the case where Trump is accused of election fraud. She is accused of having an affair with a fellow prosecutor, Nathan Wade, whom she hired on the case. It could mean Willis being disqualified from pursuing the goal or having it completely voided.  

 

According to CNN, the Willis hearing quickly derailed.  

 

“She was not acting as a witness in the traditional sense, but more like a prosecutor, arguing with the defense lawyers, making objections, presenting legal arguments and having exchanges with the judge. She even raised her voice at one point.”  

 

It is unclear whether Willis can regain control of the Trump case, writes The Guardian's Sam Levine. He notes that she fought hard to "remind the American public that the process is a distraction from the core issue: The attempt to overthrow democracy."  

 

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Trump is sentenced to billions in fines and a three-year business ban  

 

Donald Trump is sentenced to the equivalent of almost SEK 3.8 billion in fines and is banned from business in New York for three years, US media reports. 

 

This after losing a civil case in a court in the city. The court has previously found Trump and his family company guilty of greatly exaggerating the value of their assets to get better loan terms.  

 

Trump is also not allowed to take out any loans from banks in New York for the next three years, according to the ruling. His sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are also banned from eating in the state for two years.

 

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America's abortion policy

Facts: Trump supports abortion ban after 16 weeks 

  

Donald Trump has told his confidantes that he supports a national ban on abortion after 16 weeks, with the exception of rape, incest or in danger to the woman's life, sources familiar with the matter told the New York Times.  

 

Outwardly, Trump has been careful to weigh his words on the abortion issue because he believes Republican politicians often lose votes on their stance on the issue, the sources said.  

 

The ex-president's spokesperson Karoline Leavitt calls the article "fake news", according to The Hill.

 

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The impeachment threat against Biden  

FBI source indicted for lying about Joe and Hunter Biden  

 

Former FBI source Alexander Smirnov is charged with lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.  

 

According to the indictment, in June 2020, Smirnov will have falsely told the FBI that the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid the president and his scandal-ridden son five million dollars each.  

 

That and other information from Smirnov has been central to the Republican corruption charges against Joe and Hunter Biden, and formed the basis of an impeachment investigation launched against the president.  

 

Smirnov faces 25 years in prison if convicted.