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'Old man is afraid of prison': Trump nailed by ex-GOP lawmaker after Truth Social outburst

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday night, former Rep. Dave Jolly (R-FL) was asked about Donald Trump's increasingly frantic attacks on his Truth Social platform — and he attributed them to the former president reacting to his court dates looming closer and closer.

Speaking with fill-in host Charles F. Coleman Jr., Jolly stated that the prospect of prison is clearly weighing on Trump's mind.

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Nikki Haley's 'breathtaking' Civil War faceplant may cripple her surging campaign: analyst

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's inability to acknowledge slavery as the central cause of the Civil War at a New Hampshire town hall may deal a death blow to her surging campaign as she chases Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination, experts said.

Stumping in Berlin, New Hampshire on Wednesday, the Republican was asked by a potential voter about the battle between the states that started in her home turf of South Carolina, and she attempted to explain it away as a conflict over "the freedoms of what people could and couldn’t do.”

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'It really plays into his hands': Expert says DOJ's latest filing hands Trump a gift

Jack Smith’s demand that Donald Trump be barred from bringing “irrelevant disinformation” into Judge Tanya Chutkan’s Jan. 6 courtroom could have handed a gift to the former president, an expert warned Thursday.

Smith filed his request Wednesday that Trump’s team be forbidden from making the conspiracy theories — such as his claim that the President Joe Biden is behind the trial as a way to silence his main competitor — part of his defense.

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Expert shocked as Trump appears to claim Hitler's theories as his own: 'It was my idea'

For all the accusations and denials that former President Donald Trump has made about his use of Nazi talking points, an acclaimed New York City author says there's some truth to it.

Kurt Anderson, who co-founded Spy Magazine and writes about politics, appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell to talk about Trump's supposed adoption of Adolf Hitler's terms and concepts.

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'Poppycock': Legal expert shoots down Trump's newest defense in Jan. 6 case

Trump's "defense du jour" is to reflect on his efforts after his defeat in the presidential election as being completely shielded from any kind of crime.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell to decipher the former president's latest reasoning behind his belief that he was essentially untouchable as president.

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'Pathetically weak': Conservative George Conway destroys arguments to keep Trump on ballot

Two legal wonks sparred over their interpretations of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment that's being wielded to try and scratch Trump from the 2024 primary ballot.

Conservative attorney George Conway, who has been banging the drum against the 45th president for years, and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, locked horns on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins over whether state supreme courts like Colorado's are able to to nix Trump from the ballot or others like Michigan are right in finding that he should remain on theirs.

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Trump fans are using 'Scooby-Doo' theories to avoid blame for Jan. 6: MSNBC host

In the wake of special counsel Jack Smith filing a motion to block Trump from introducing conspiracy theories about the January 6 attack at his election conspiracy trial, MSNBC host Jason Johnson weighed in on the prevalence of these beliefs among the MAGA faithful with NBC reporter Ryan J. Reilly.

"It's always interesting to me, Ryan, that antigovernment conspiracy theorists think the government is terrible, incompetent, until it suits our conspiracy theory," said Johnson. "And then suddenly they're all geniuses able to do all they want them to do. I think this conspiracy is key. He, Smith talks about undercover agents. He says, 'We don't want defendants to introduce information about undercover actors, because that would lead to confusing mini-trials on collateral issues.' It may require the government introduce evidence to show the people whom the defendant alleges were undercover actors were actually his vehement supporters.'"

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Trump will 'burn America to the ground to help himself': Chris Christie's new ad

Chris Christie can speak truth to Trump.

And his latest pitch to American voters? Who else has the guts to do it in public, because according to him everybody is doing it in the shadows.

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'Really alarming': Ex-prosecutor highlights 'red flag' about Trump-driven violence

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco came out with a warning that Trump and Republican attacks against Justice Department personnel have led to an "unprecedented rise" in violent threats against the agency.

This is a sign that the danger of violence posed by the MAGA movement is escalating, said former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on MSNBC Wednesday.

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Trump's latest argument is like Osama bin Laden claiming he wasn't guilty for 9/11: expert

A lead investigator of the Jan. 6 riots Wednesday likened one of Donald Trump's legal arguments to Osama bin Laden claiming he was not to blame for Sept. 11.

Tim Heaphy discussed on MSNBC Jack Smith's Wednesday filing seeking to ban Trump from raising "irrelevant" arguments in his federal election interference case, which the Jan. 6 House Select Committee's lead investigator said he's heard before.

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'Not a scintilla of evidence': Legal expert knocks Trump's 'irrelevant' immunity effort

The back-and-forth paper war between Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith over the former president's immunity claims will likely end with Trump against the legal ropes, legal experts say.

Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu appeared on CNN Wednesday night to argue Trump's contention — that as a former president, he can't be tried for election subversion in the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot — was ultimately anemic.

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Trump lawyers will draw 'ire of the judge' by pushing conspiracy theories to jury: expert

Special counsel Jack Smith has made a filing that seeks to prevent former President Donald Trump and his attorneys from using political attacks and other irrelevant side criticisms of the integrity of the process during his trial in the 2020 election conspiracy case.

But even if U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has currently paused trial proceedings pending the resolution of the former president's immunity claim at the appellate court, grants Smith his request, Trump's attorneys will try to find clever ways around it, warned former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti on CNN Wednesday.

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'Like herding quail': Bush strategist slams House GOPers he says will scatter in 2024

Former President George W. Bush's chief campaign strategist Wednesday compared House Republicans to a flock of birds he predicts aren't going to fly in formation in 2024.

"It's a caucus like herding quail," Matthew Dowd told MSNBC host Richard Lui. "And you can't herd quail because they're all over the place."

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