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Donald Trump compared life under President Joe Biden to a dystopian hell in a social media post dripping in dramatic imagery Friday.

The former president — who presided over the deaths of 425,000 Americans from COVID-19, nearly 20 percent of all worldwide deaths in his final 10 months in office — complained the world had become a grim and dismal place since he was replaced by Biden in January 2021.

Former Georgia governor Roy Barnes refused to be the special prosecutor in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willi’s election racketeering case against Donald Trump because he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in mortal peril, he testified Friday.

Barnes, Willis’ first choice for special prosecutor, testified at an evidentiary hearing challenging Willis’ fitness to prosecute Trump on the grounds that her personal relationship with the attorney she ultimately hired, Nathan Wade.

Former President Donald Trump has been reluctant to weigh in on the topic of abortion as he reportedly fears that endorsing anything short of a near-total ban could alienate his hardcore Christian followers.

The New York Times reports, however, that he will come out in favor of a 16-week nationwide abortion ban after he locks down the Republican Party presidential nomination later this year.

New York Republican Lee Zeldin drew backlash Friday for comparing the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny to Donald Trump, saying that Democrats are doing to the former president what Vladimir Putin is suspected of doing to Navalny.

The Putin critic was found dead in his prison cell, Russian media announced Friday. The cause of death has not been revealed, but several western officials and Kremlin critics were quick to suggest he's been killed.

This week brought more than one bombshell in former President Donald Trump's legal problems.

During an evidentiary hearing in an Atlanta courtroom, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testified on her romantic relationship with fellow prosecutor Nathan Wade — forcefully arguing that it was a distraction from the reason for the RICO prosecution: Trump and his allies' efforts to "steal an election."

Journalist Marc Caputo told The New Republic's Greg Sargent on his podcast this week that Trump's takeover of the Republican National Committee could cause friction if he uses it to pay his legal bills at the expense of down-ballot races in the 2024 election cycle.

In particular, Caputo said the prospects of a worsening legal landscape for Trump could have a cascading effect on party finances.

Donald Trump is fighting to get time on his side as he urges the Supreme Court to halt his federal election trial while he continues to appeal his immunity case, according to a legal expert who's watching the case.

Every minute that clicks by as he works through appeals over his claim that the office of the president makes him immune from prosecution works in his favor, according to former litigator Lisa Rubin.

Reflecting on Donald Trump's criminal hush money case looming within weeks, combined with his massive multiple million dollar losses in civil trials to writer E. Jean Carroll, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner claimed the former president is being ground down by his legal problems.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday, the ex-prosecutor stated that with at least four criminal trials also on tap for the former president, he is increasingly finding himself in a corner with nowhere to go.

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Noting Trump's fraud trial date of March 25 seems set in stone, Kirschner told the hosts, "Not to mix apples and oranges, but the unabated string of losses in civil cases that Donald Trump has suffered: E. Jean Carroll 1 and 2, the fraud trial which he lost on the merits and we're waiting to see how large the money judgment might be that's handed down by Judge Arthur Engoron, and, actually, another case Trump lost by proxy, the Trump Organization criminal conviction — that's his namesake, his organization — convicted of a 15-year long scheme to defraud in the first degree, I think all of those losses are important foreshadowing for what is about to hit Donald Trump in the criminal cases."

"When the rules of evidence and the rule of law applies, he will have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide," he added. "If you think civil verdicts were dramatic that were entered against Donald Trump, I don't think you've seen anything yet," he added. Wait for these criminal trials to get underway."

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A New York judge is expected to issue a ruling Friday that could shatter Donald Trump's business empire and force him to pay up to $370 million over fraud allegations.

He is accused of unlawfully inflating his wealth and manipulating the value of his properties to obtain more favorable bank loans or insurance terms.