of a sitting president. the 54 year old denies three criminal charges stemming from his purchase of a handgun in 2018 the prosecution claim he was heavily addicted to drugs at the time and lied about it in registration forms. the first lady, jill biden, attended the jury selection hearing in delaware. president biden was not present. he issued a statement saying he was proud of his son, but he would not comment on the case. our correspondent tom bateman has been outside the courthouse in wilmington. well, five months before a presidential election and a trial here that will throw a very public glare on the personal life and the allegations of drug misuse of the son of the us president. now, hunter biden arrived here first thing this morning along with members of the biden family, including his stepmother, the first lady, jill biden. she satjust behind him at the front of the public gallery in the courtroom all day. i was in the press benches and watched hunter biden turn an
mr trump already has four million followers on tiktok ten times more than the number who follow president biden s account, which was started in february. mr trump s video has already been viewed more than 66 million times. he s had a varied relationship with tiktok back in 2020, he signed a presidential order trying to ban it for its links to china but that was blocked by us courts. since then, he s been critical of recent attempts by the us congress to curtail tiktok, for roughly the same security reasons. 0ur north america correspondent, david willis, gave us his analaysis of that trump tiktok u turn. there s one thing that donald trump and joe biden were in full agreement on, and that was the fact that tik tok posed a threat to the national security of the united states. donald trump tried to ban it, as you mentioned there, by executive order. that failed. it was overturned by the courts. and joe biden has now given the company that owns tiktok bytedance nine months to sel