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His wife Melissa Cohen was also at the center of the drama when she called a Trump aide ‘Nazi piece of s***’.

This is what happened in court yesterday.

Hunter Biden walked into the courthouse in Delaware with his wife Melissa Cohen just before 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

She was at the center of drama on Tuesday for her response to prosecutors unveiling his laptop in court and for calling a former Trump aide a “Nazi piece of s***.”

Vice President Kamala Harris took a victory lap over Donald Trump during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday evening, joking in response to last week’s shocking verdict: “Cheaters don’t like to get caught.”

The former San Francisco prosecutor dodged a lighthearted question from Kimmel about whether the people she watched the verdict with “acted like they weren’t happy” when the sentencing was announced.

Last week, Trump was convicted of all charges related to a scheme during his 2016 presidential campaign to pay off porn actor Stormy Daniels, who said the pair had sex in 2006, something he has denied.

An attack on the US embassy in Lebanon was foiled after a Syrian man opened fire and was captured.

The man was arrested on Wednesday after the shooting near the US embassy in Beirut, the Lebanese army said, while the embassy said its staff were safe.

The embassy, ​​in the northern suburb of Awkar, “was subjected to gunfire by a person of Syrian nationality.” the military said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.

President Joe Biden arrived in France on Wednesday for a state visit that will include marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy and a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

During his trip, the 81-year-old Biden will push to deepen transatlantic ties as Russia steps up its attack on Ukraine and Europe faces an election that could disrupt the current geopolitical order.

He will give what the White House is calling a major speech, in which he will warn about the threats to democracy and the rise of dictators.

“It’s going to be action-packed and, I think, extremely moving,” said National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, adding that for him it’s an “opportunity to say thank you directly to the veterans who saved democracy, the free world and set the stage for the decades of peace and prosperity that followed.’

Former President Donald Trump officially joined his supporters on Tuesday by using mail-in ballots and voting early in the November election with the launch of an initiative called “Swamp the Vote USA.”

“Many Republicans like to vote on Election Day and we need to overwhelm the radical Democrats with a massive turnout on Tuesday, November 5,” Trump said.

The ex-president and presumptive Republican nominee filmed a video at Mar-a-Lago explaining that he still wanted elections to take place on Election Day only with paper ballots and voter ID cards.

Joe Biden’s cognitive decline has become apparent to dozens of senior officials in recent months, a new report claims.

More than 45 Republican and Democratic lawmakers and staffers offered insight on the topic, citing recent mistakes they found by the commander in chief.

The report, which aired in the middle of an election year, paints a picture of a president significantly slower than he was days ago, while the White House insists the 81-year-old is still a top leader.

The dozens who spoke The Wall Street Journal disagreed – describing a president who speaks so softly these days that some struggle to even understand what he is saying.