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It was another blockbuster day in Hunter Biden's trial as his ex Hallie Biden described the moment she 'panicked' and threw his gun in the trash.

She also told the court when she first started smoking crack cocaine with the president's son and how she was 'ashamed' of her life back then.

The prosecution is set to return with their final witnesses on Friday. First Lady Jill Biden is also set to fly back from France for 24 hours to support him.

Across the Atlantic, President Joe Biden marked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings by meeting American veterans who stormed the beaches and warning the world about the dangers of 'tyranny' and 'bullies'.

He also revealed whether he would pardon his son if he is found guilty.

On the campaign trail, there was chaos at Donald Trump's event in Phoenix, Arizona, when 11 people were taken to hospital for heat exhaustion.

Read what you missed:

• An emotional Biden gets advice on aging from D-Day veterans
• The heroic stories of the D-Day veterans who met Biden, 80- years after they stormed the beaches
• Biden says U.S. will not surrender to 'bullies' or 'tyrants' at 80th anniversary D-Day commemoration
• Hallie Biden and new Hunter-lookalike husband appear together at trial
• Hunter Biden's baby mama Lunden Roberts confirms Joe still hasn't met his granddaughter
• Biden says he will NOT pardon son Hunter, and says Trump got a 'fair trial' in New York
• Chaos at Trump rally as MAGA fans are hospitalized in soaring temperatures

The surveillance footage showing Hallie Biden throwing Hunter's gun in the rash has been released by the court.

The video shows Hallie outside Janssen's Market in Delaware on October 23, 2018, pulling up in her BMW.

The Colt Cobra Revolver had been placed in a small gift bag and was hidden on the back seat.

She is then seen walking to the store's exterior and throwing it in the trash.

Another clip shows her returning to the store and searching for the gun, and asking employees if the trash had been taken out.

Hallie told the court she was 'panicked' and didn't want Hunter to 'hurt himself'.

'I realize it was a stupid idea now, but I was panicking,' she told the court on Thursday.

They are expected to call FBI forensic chemist Jason Brewer ad DEA Special Agent Joshua Romig.

The prosection is expected to rest its case today.

Defense lawyers will then start their case.

They have not yet decided whether to put Hunter Biden himself on the stand.

From Dailymail.com's Josh Boswell in Delaware criminal court:

Prosecutors said yesterday they expected to rest their case by the end of Thursday, but longer testimony and cross-examination of Hallie delayed the timeline.

Derek Hines, for the prosecution, told the judge that they plan to be finished in the morning after bringing in a DEA drug slang expert and an FBI chemist who analyzed cocaine detected on the pouch Hunter’s gun was found in.

Abbe Lowell, Hunter's lawyer, said that they will decide whether to bring in their own lab expert after hearing the chemist’s testimony, and that their other witnesses will number ‘maybe just two or three’.

These are expected to include Hunter’s uncle Jim Biden, and daughter Naomi.

‘Then we will make the descision whether Mr. Biden will testify,’ Lowell added, in a shock confirmation that they are considering putting Hunter on the stand.

He said he believed the defense would rest at the end of the day on Monday.

Valerie Biden Owens, the President’s sister, sat in on the trial all day with her husband Jack and son Clive.

She has played a big role in the Biden family, acting as a campaign manager for Joe and a surrogate mother for Hunter when his mother, Joe’s first wife Neilia, died from injuries from a car crash in1972.

Valerie left court with Hunter and Melissa Biden.

Hunter Biden walked past a protestor as he left court with his wife Melissa.

The court in Wilmington, Delaware is finsished for the day and will resume on Friday morning.

Proseutors said they have two witnesses left, including a chemist wortking for the FBI.

Edward Banner, 80, was called as a witness.

Banner, a military veteran who used to work for General Motors,, told how he collects recyclables from trash cans.

He said he found the gun in the trash near a grocery store in Wilmington in 2018.

From Dailymail.com's Josh Boswell in Delaware criminal court:

Hunter Biden may testify in his gun crimes case, his lawyer said Thursday.

Hunter’s lawyer Abbe Lowell told a judge that they will ‘make the decision whether Mr. Biden will testify’ after other witnesses have all taken the stand.

He anticipated that they would be finished with their arguments before the jury by the end of the day on Monday.

from Emily Goodin, Senior Political Reporter in France

Jill Biden left France on Thursday night to return to Wilmington, Delaware, to attend son Hunter’s federal gun trial on Friday. 

The First Lady has been a regular in the courtroom, sitting in support of her stepson. 

But she has boomeranged between France and Wilmington - a distance of 3,741 miles - to balance her family needs with being First Lady. 

She spent Thursday in France with President Joe Biden to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. 

She flew to France on Wednesday night to be with be husband (the president flew over on Air Force One on Tuesday) and left after Thursday’s festivities concluded. 

She flies via a government jet. 

Her office said she will return to Paris in time for Saturday’s state visit, which includes a military parade and a formal state dinner.

She also has a separate event that day with French First Lady Brigitte Macron. 

'The First Lady has no events in France tomorrow and she is returning to Wilmington,” the East Wing said Thursday evening. 'She is expected to rejoin the President for the State Visit this weekend.'

Police officer Millard Greer told the jury it took days to track down Hunter's gun after it was dumped in the trash outside a grocery store by Hallie Biden.

He evetually found an elderl yman who took recyclables from trash cans.

The man had the gun in a sock and also had Hunter's bullets.

According to her office Jill Biden has no events in France tomorrow and she is returning to Wilmington.

Earlier in the week, the First Lady was in court in Wilmington to support her stepson Hunter.

Her office said she is expected to rejoin the President for the State Visit this weekend.

It's only days since she remarried yet Hallie Biden and her new husband were forced to make their first public appearance as newlyweds at her brother-in-law and one-time lover's criminal trial in Delaware on Thursday.

With his slim face, penchant for an unshaven look, and baseball cap, her new spouse, John Hopkins Anning II bears a striking resemblance to her former paramour Hunter.

But when it comes to politics, the financial advisor from Ohio could not be more different from the first family as he has been a registered Republican since 1997, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Anning is a divorced father of three grown children – Katherine, 25, Margot, 24 and John Hopkins III who turns 18 this year.

CCTV played in court showed Hallie Biden driving up and dropping the bag containing the gun in a trash can.

‘I was so flustered from the whole thing,’ Hallie said. ‘I realize it was a stupid idea now but I was just panicking.’

Texts shown by prosecutors reveal Hunter’s frantic conversation with Hallie, berating her for getting ‘the f***ing FBI’ involved when she reported the lost gun to police, after he discovered it was missing and she went back and failed to find it in the trash.

From Dailymail.com's Josh Boswell in Delaware criminal court:

Hallie Biden said Hunter showed up unannounced late on the 22nd or 23rd of October, 2018 at her Annapolis, Maryland home.

‘He was tired, exhausted. He looked like he hadn’t slept,’ she said. She agreed with prosecutor Leo Wise that Hunter ‘could have been’ using drugs.

‘He went to bed,’ she said. ‘I went to clean out his car and his stuff.. to help him get sober.’

She said it was then that she found the gun, in an unlocked center console of the Ford F-150 Raptor truck.

‘Aside from trash and clothing I did find remnants of crack cocaine and some paraphernalia. And the gun obviously,’ she said.

Wise then showed the jury a box which had contained the Colt Cobra revolver.

‘I panicked. I didn’t want him to hurt himself or didn’t want my kids to find it and hurt themselves,’ Hallie said.

‘I considered hiding it somewhere, but I was afraid of my children finding it.’

She said she found a gift bag and later a leather pouch in the car, put the gun and a box of bullets in them, then drove to Janssen’s Supermarket in Wilmington, Delaware.

In an interview in Normandy with ABC News President Biden was asked if would accept the outcome of Hunter's trial. He replied: 'Yes.'

Biden was also asked if he would rule out pardoning his son if he is convicted. He again responded: 'Yes.'

Valerie Biden Owens, 78, the younger sister of the president, is at court to support her nephew Hunter.

She is seen here outside the court with Hunter's wife Melissa.

Cross-examination of Hallie Biden, the star witness, will continue after the lunch break.

After the prosecution finished its questioning Hallie Biden, the star witness, was cross-examined by Abbe Lowell, Hunter's lawyer.

She said she did not see Hunter taking drugs in the week before he bought the gun on October 12, 2018.

The defense is seeking to show that Hunter was not on drugs around the time of the purchase, and so was not lying when he made that claim on a federal form at a gun store.

President Joe Biden choked up Thursday during an international ceremony honoring the veterans of D-Day on the 80th anniversary of the world's largest land, sea and air invasion.

Seated between first lady Jill Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron, Biden took out a white handkerchief to wipe his eyes as tributes were paid to the veterans, whose storming of the French beaches would lead to the end of World War II.

A children's choir performed 'Ode to Joy', a military group sang 'The Battle Hymn of the Republican,' bagpipes played and poems were read.  The ceremony also included interpretive dancers, signboards that spelled out 'idéal' and 'courage', as well as parachutists who landed on the beach.

Biden joined more than 25 world leaders at a massive ceremony on Omaha Beach, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Prince William and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The president embraced Zelensky. The two men are expected to meet on the sidelines of Normandy.

Prosecutors have already shown the jury text messages from Hunter to Hallie around the time he bought the gun on October 12, 2018.

In one, a day later, Hunter said he was 'waiting for a dealer' called 'Mookie'.

Hallie Biden confirmed for prosecutors that she understood that to mean he was buying crack.

Hallie Biden's history with the Biden family is a toxic one: Beginning a tawdry affair with her dead husband Beau's brother, getting sucked into the vortex of Hunter's addiction to crack cocaine and having her trips to rehab visits paid for by the president , DailyMail.com can reveal.

Now, Hallie, 50, is set to testify for the prosecution in Hunter's Delaware gun crimes trial on Thursday, detailing how they frequently abused drugs in the late 2010s.

DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal material from Hunter's abandoned laptop that lays bare Hallie's own struggles with drug addiction, her involvement with Hunter's firm, Rosemont Seneca, and her twisted relationship with the president's only surviving son.

Hallie Olivere, who grew up in Delaware and whose mother was friends with Joe, joined the Biden clan in 2002 when she married Beau. He became state attorney general in 2007.

Though Hunter's prolific drug addiction and downward spiral into binges with prostitutes has been well-publicized, messages and videos from his laptop reveal that Hallie was also in the throes of addiction during their twisted relationship.

Former Donald Trump chief White House strategist Steve Bannon was back at a D.C. courthouse Thursday where prosecutors are urging a federal judge to send him to prison immediately.

Bannon was previously sentenced in October 2022 to four months in prison after being convicted of Contempt of Congress for failing to provide information or testimony to the House January 6 Committee.

His lawyers are appealing the ruling of a three-judge appeals court panel, and have asked Judge Carl Nichols to allow him to remain free pending a process that could go before the full appeals court or even the U.S. Supreme Court.

The judge previously agreed to postpone the sentence pending appeal. The judge is hearing arguments on the matter in open court.

'The defendant chose allegiance to Donald Trump over compliance with the law,' argued Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston in a filing by prosecutors, who argue there is 'no legal basis' for keeping Bannon out of prison pending the appeal following the ruling by the appeals court panel.

About a week before he bought the gun Hallie Biden texted Hunter that she was 'afraid you are going to die'.

She said she meant by an overdose or suicide and that she went on to throw the gun away because she wanted him to be 'safe'.

Hallie Biden said she found Hunter's gun and bullets in his truck while he was asleep on October 23, 2018.

She 'didn't want him to hurt himself' and panicked' so she took the gun to a grocery store called Janssen's in Wilmington, where she threw it in the trash.

She said that had been 'stupid' but she was 'flustered' at the time.

Hallie Biden testified that Hunter was sometimes in possession of rocks of crack the size of ping pong balls.

She stopped using crack in August 2018, about two months before Hunter bought a gun.

Hallie Biden said she was introduced to 'crack cocaine' by Hunter. She had not known what it was and had to look it up on Google.

In the summer of 2018 she used crack with Hunter in Los Angeles. She said it was a 'terrible' time in her life and she was 'ashamed'.

Donald Trump commemorated D-Day with a few posts to Truth Social.

'Today, we honor the immortal heroes who landed at Normandy 80 years ago,' the former president wrote in one post.

'The men of D-Day will live forever in history as among the bravest, noblest, and greatest Americans ever to walk the earth,' he added. 'They shed their blood, and thousands gave their lives, in defense of American Freedom. They are in our hearts today and for all time.'

Another post included an image of Trump with U.S. veterans in Normandy, France in 2019, when he was still president.

In his opening statement prosecutor Derek Hines said Hallie Biden would discuss her own use of crack and said it would be 'embarrassing'.

Hines said: 'Hallie will testify about her own crack use.'

The jury has already heard that Hallie was introduced to crack by Hunter and that they had a romantic relationship.

Hallie was clean two months before Hunter purchased a gun and she is clean today, the court has heard.

It was Hallie Biden who found the gun and then 'panicked' and dumped it in a trash can.

Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau Biden, has taken the witness stand in Hunter Biden's gun and drugs trial in Wilmington, Delaware.

Following Beau's death in 2015 Halllie had a romantic relationship with his brother Hunter.

She is expected to give evidence about Hunter's crack use and is testifying under an immunity agreement.

Hallie Biden is seen here arriving at court with her fiance John Hopkins Anning.

Hunter Biden and wife Melissa have arrived for the fourth day of his gun and drugs trial in Wilmington, Delaware.

She wore a shirt with a monogrammed 'B'.

President Joe Biden said Americans must continue to fight against tyranny at what is likely the last major anniversary with living veterans of D-Day.

We're not far off from the time when the last living voices of those who fought and bled on D-Day will no longer be with us, so we have a special obligation.

We cannot let what happened here be lost in the silence of the years to come.

The fact that they were heroes here that day does not absolve us of what we have do today.

Democracy is not guaranteed. Every generation must preserve it, defend it and fight for it.

In memory of those who fought here, died here and literally saved the world here, let us be worthy of their sacrifice.

President Biden turned his D-Day speech to contemporary politics in the U.S. and Europe as he marked the 80th anniversary of the invasion.

Freedom is worth it. Democracy is worth it. America is worth it. The world is worth it.

President Joe Biden takes a swipe at Vladimir Putin and says democracy is at risk during his speech commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day

To surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators, is simply unthinkable. Were we to do that, it means we would be forgetting what happened here on these hallowed beaches. Make no mistake: we will not bow down, we will not forget

President Joe Biden began his speech on the D-Day anniversary by saluting Second World War veterans who stormed the beaches 80 years ago.

Biden turned to the veterans, who were seated on stage, and said it was 'the highest honor to be able to salute you in Normandy once more. All of you. God love you.'

President Biden was born on November 20, 1942.

He was an 18-month-old toddler In Scranton, Pennsylvania when D-Day took place.

The future president is pictured here a decade later in the 1950s, second from the right.

Movie icons Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks joined world leaders in Normandy on Thursday morning as part of the 80th D-Day anniversary commemorations.

The pair, known for their collaboration the Oscar-winning 1998 epic Saving Private Ryan, which portrayed the events of the fateful day in 1945 when the tide turned in World War II in favor of the allies, joined dozens of world leaders at the events.

Following Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg and Hanks collaborated again for the drama series Band of Brothers, which followed US soldiers in northern France in the aftermath of the storming of the beaches.

D-Day veterans have been left in tears as the memories of decades past came flooding back while they were honoured for their service by world leaders and royals.

Soldiers who took part in the Normandy landings 80 years ago wept as they remembered their fallen comrades and were given standing ovations by the grateful younger generations at a series of touching commemorative events in northern France.

At the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, tribute was paid to the 'remarkable wartime generation', before wreaths of poppies were laid in memory of the more than 25,000 soldiers who lost their lives in the first stages of the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.

The NYPD will be revoking former President Donald Trump's gun permit on the heels of his 34-count conviction last week.

A jury convicted the ex-president last Thursday for falsifying business records over payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee will now lose his gun permit, according to ABC News.

Donald Trump has narrowed his search for a vice presidential candidate to just seven contenders and has begun requesting information from each.

Among those in the running are North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Florida's Marco Rubio, Ohio Sen. JD Vance and South Carolina's Tim Scott, according to campaign sources cited by Fox News. 

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, and Trump's 2016 rival-turned cabinet member Ben Carson were also said to be on the list - a set of seven who will vetted after they fill out the forms, two others said.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden had an emotional meeting with D-Day veterans ahead of the ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, saluting their service and making jokes with them.

The veterans were in their late teens and early 20s when they stormed the beaches and are now in their late 90s or 100s.

In a lighthearted moment during Thursday's somber event, veteran Robert Gibson told the 81-year-old president: 'Don't get old.'

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