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Washington (AFP) - Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has long been a bogeyman for the far right, but Donald Trump's indictment has unleashed a fresh torrent of hate that has also entangled US fact-checkers debunking conspiracies about him.

Donald Trump and his supporters have made conspiracy theories around Soros their line of defense against the former president's legal troubles.

High farce in a Manhattan courtroom has left America’s friends and foes wondering if the US has lost the plot

The former president made hush-money payments to a porn star and a Playboy model and faces looming trials over a rape allegation

The ex-president appeared for a historic arraingment in New York on 4 April

NEW YORK — The Manhattan district attorney’s office made history last week by bringing the first-ever criminal case against a former U.S. president.

Trump made history by becoming the first former US president to be criminally charged but his successor has studiously avoided the subject

The former president has already called the judge ‘highly partisan’ and called his family ‘Trump hating’

Trump very much deserves to be prosecuted and punished. But the New York case is far more dubious than the other charges likely to be brought against him.

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's indictment of former President Donald Trump takes an open-ended approach to the charges that some critics of the unprecedented prosecution see as a weakness. What the detractors have overlooked are the substantial and unanticipated legal and factual strengths in the case Bragg outlined.