Alina Habba

Biden report's comments about his memory spawn conspiracy theories from conservatives

The Special Counsel report into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents didn't recommend any criminal charges, yet there were comments within it about memory. Those comments were hailed by Donald Trump, but other conservatives see a warning sign flashing.

Some right-wingers are turning to conspiracy theories by suggesting that the special counsel slamming Biden is a bad thing for their side because it shows a plan to replace Biden with someone more palatable to the general public. Many have suggested Gavin Newsom, California's governor.

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'Mark my words': Ex-prosecutor predicts Trump's next legal filing in documents case

Trump's legal team is probably typing away on their filing to get his classified documents obstruction case scrapped now that President Joe Biden dodged criminal charges.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said the win for Biden to avoid criminal prosecution for being found to possess boxes of classified documents in his garage was a "close call" and may have cracked the window for Trump counsel to make a bid to convince the judge to stick a fork in his Florida federal case.

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Colorado Trump ballot challenger 'didn't have a good day' in SCOTUS hearing: legal expert

It was a "bad day" and a "weak case" for those trying to convince nine jurists sitting on the nation's highest bench that Trump's an officer who should be booted from the GOP primary ballot.

That was the take by NYU law professor Ryan Goodman, who appeared Thursday on CNN hours after oral combat was completed in what was described as a frosty reception at the Supreme Court.

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CNN's Kaitlan Collins cuts off and fact checks Elise Stefanik in contentious interview

One of ex-president Donald Trump's top elected defenders had a contentious interview with CNN host Kaitlan Collins on Thursday in which the two ended up talking over one another.

GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik talked about everything from the recent special counsel report on Joe Biden's handling of documents to her potentially being scouted to be Trump's vice presidential pick. She also explained that she wouldn't have done what Trump's first vice president, Mike Pence, did, when he certified the 2020 election results.

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Revealed: Trump caught hobnobbing with 'protege' of George Soros

Republicans love to attack George Soros, the left-leaning Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor who has contributed to a number of liberal and pro-democracy causes around the world. Often their criticisms stray into anti-Semitism, as well as a guilt-by-association logic where any politician whose projects have received funding from a group supported by Soros are but his puppets.

But ironically, by that logic, former President Donald Trump would have to be controlled by Soros too, reported The Daily Beast.

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Joe Biden zings Fox News reporter who tries to ambush him about his age

President Joe Biden gave a brief address and took reporters' questions on Thursday evening, following the release of a report from special counsel Robert Hur on his handling of classified information in his private office and home — and when a Fox News reporter tried to ambush him about the special counsel's remarks on his age and mental acuity, he hit back with a cutting one-liner.

"How is your memory?" asked Peter Doocy.

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'They're gonna play dirty': Former Trump aide explains GOP's next move against Joe Biden

They're coming after the old man in the Oval Office.

Alyssa Farrah Griffin, who served as former President Donald Trump's Communications Director, appeared on CNN to warn that she expects the GOP to unleash a torrent of no holds barred takedowns now that the special counsel investigating Biden's classified documents case reduced him down to an old fogey nearing senility.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson was 'throwing shade' at her colleagues in Trump hearing: expert

The Supreme Court looks poised to let former President Donald Trump back on the ballot after hearing a review of the Colorado decision banning him under the Fourteenth Amendment — but Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wants them to do it the right way.

New York University law professor and MSNBC legal commentator Melissa Murray explained to anchor Ari Melber that she wanted to put the actual purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment into their decision — and chided some of her colleagues for trying to take a lazy way out.

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'Jack Smith files a scathing response' after Trump tries to delay docs trial: legal expert

Donald Trump's latest attempt to delay the classified documents criminal trial was met with a "scathing response" from Special Counsel Jack Smith, one legal expert said on Thursday.

Trump stands accused of stashing away classified documents after his presidency and then refusing to give them back even when subpoenaed by the government. Recently, his attorney in that case said the allegations involving obstruction were more "damning" than those President Joe Biden faces.

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'Let our country heal!' Trump begs Jack Smith to drop 'all litigation' against him

Donald Trump on Thursday begged Special Counsel Jack Smith to drop "all litigation" against him in order to allow the nation to "heal."

The former president has been charged by Smith in connection with the ex-president's alleged election subversion efforts, as well as for purportedly holding onto classified documents despite a subpoena from the government to return them.

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CNN's Jake Tapper confronts Trump documents case lawyer on ex-president's 'obstruction'

With President Joe Biden getting a criminal hall pass, former President Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer in the federal classified documents case locked horns with CNN’s Jake Tapper over a critical detail: they may both be pack rats, but one president allegedly obstructed and the other didn’t.

“For just as Joe Biden should have returned the documents the moment he's telling his ghost writer, ‘Hey, I found the classified stuff downstairs!’ so, too, would Trump have had to do it,” said Timothy Parlatore, who defended the 45th president after a federal grand jury in Miami in June 2023 decided to indict him for stashing away classified documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago and then rebuffing the government’s request to return them.

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Trump's lawyer admitted something that will 'come back to haunt' the ex-president: expert

During oral argument before the Supreme Court, former President Donald Trump's attorney said something that could end up blowing up in Trump's face, Democratic voting rights attorney Marc Elias told MSNBC's Alicia Menendez on Thursday.

The Supreme Court was reviewing the decision by Colorado to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the Insurrection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment — and legal experts broadly believe the court is unlikely to uphold that decision. But that doesn't mean Trump will get a complete victory here, Elias said.

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