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Supreme Court faces higher stakes in Trump case than they ever did with Nixon: John Dean

The Supreme Court faces even higher stakes in settling the question surrounding former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in D.C. than it did in the Richard Nixon Watergate tapes matter, former Nixon White House counsel John Dean argued on CNN Thursday.

This comes as special counsel Jack Smith pushes on with his request for the Supreme Court to expedite a review of Trump's claims to presidential immunity, over the objections of Trump himself.

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'Additional crime': Conservative George Conway says Trump may face new charges in Michigan

Former President Donald Trump might expect a fifth round of criminal charges in the near future, suggested conservative attorney George Conway on CNN Thursday — this time in Michigan.

This comes amid a bombshell new report that Trump "personally pressured" at least two Republican lawmakers in Michigan to block certification of the election results in that state, around the same time as he placed the infamous phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Georgia demanding he "find" 11,000 extra votes.

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Rudy Giuliani is 'going to jail' if he keeps being 'shady' about his finances: expert

Former President Donald Trump's ally Rudy Giuliani will be working off his debts to election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss until the day he dies, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Thursday evening.

This comes after Giuliani, who pushed reputation-destroying conspiracy theories about Freeman and Moss stuffing ballots during the vote count in Atlanta, was held liable for $148 million in damages from the election workers' defamation case — and after he filed for bankruptcy today, in an apparent move to protect his assets.

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'Oh, my goodness': Giuliani gasps on live TV after learning he could owe $500 million

Former President Trump's ally Rudy Giuliani, fresh off his $148 million court defeat in the defamation case brought by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, acted surprised on Steve Bannon's War Room show on Thursday when Bannon reminded him of what his reported total liabilities were.

"America's Mayor," said Bannon. "You're one of the smartest lawyers in the country. Tell us what happened this afternoon."

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Jack Smith is 'one step ahead' of Trump — and bringing the 'big guns' to stop him: expert

Special counsel Jack Smith already anticipated former President Donald Trump's moves in the criminal prosecution — and is making moves to head him off, said Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, on MSNBC Thursday.

This comes as the former president rages against Smith's efforts to expedite a Supreme Court review of his claims to presidential immunity from prosecution.

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GOP lawmaker says fellow Republicans are compromised by sex workers and drugs

A Tennessee Congressman warns that fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives have been lured into honeytraps with sex workers and drugs changing the way they vote, he said this week.

“If it's women, drugs, booze, it will find you in D.C. and in most elected offices,” Rep. Tim Burchett told podcaster Benny Johnson. “That’s what people, power and influence do.”

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Fani Willis: Trump will get no 'special break' from prison

Donald Trump will not be given special sentencing treatment if convicted of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election, says Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

CNN caught up with Willis at an event on Thursday.

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Fox News hosts: ‘Left’ wants to foment ‘violence’ and ‘civil unrest’ with Colorado ruling

Two of Fox News' top hosts are suggesting "the left" and "Democrat politicians" are trying to foment "violence" and "civil unrest," by using as a catalyst the Colorado Supreme Court's Tuesday ruling that found because he engaged in insurrection, the U.S. Constitution prohibits Donald Trump from serving as President.

Fox News host Jesse Watters Wednesday night in a lengthy segment (video below) declared the Colorado ruling was a "judicial assassination," "voter elimination," a "legal coup" by "some unelected judge," and that "four Democrats in robes stole your vote." He later posted the photos of the four justices.

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Jeff Clark: Trump not guilty of insurrection because 'he left office on time'

Former United States Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark argued that Donald Trump could not be guilty of an insurrection because his efforts to stay in office ultimately failed.

During a Thursday interview with right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon, Clark disagreed with a Colorado Supreme Court decision that bars Trump from the state's primary ballot based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

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'It's a mess': Ex-MSNBC anchor claims Giuliani 'has to deal with the alcohol problem'

Appearing on "Morning Joe" on Thursday morning, Chris Matthews was asked by host Joe Scarborough how ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani fell so far and so fast and the ex-MSNBC anchor pinned it on two things — alcohol abuse and being under the sway of Donald Trump.

Reacting to Giuliani's fortunes that just saw him take a $148 million hit in a defamation trial, Matthews called the former mayor's life a "mess."

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'Trump engaged in insurrection': Former GOP AG sides with Colorado court

Appearing on CNN on Thursday morning, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked about the Colorado Supreme Court ruling Donald Trump should not appear on the 20204 ballot and replied that he agreed with it.

Speaking with host Erica Hill, the attorney who served under President George W. Bush said he'd rather go to court using the case presented by the court than the defense offered by Trump's legal team.

Asked why he leans toward the Colorado ruling, he explained that he feels there is ample evidence Trump helped to incite the Jan. 6 insurrection.

"I think on the merits, yes, one consideration, one argument will be the due process one, but putting that aside, which is not insignificant, I think it's fairly clear to me that former president Trump engaged in insurrection," he stated.

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"The language of the Constitution is engaged in insurrection, and I think he meets that standard based on the findings of the trial court judge in Colorado based on the excellent work of the January 6th Congressional committee," he continued. "I think, in my mind, that threshold has been met."

"This is a difficult position for the court," he elaborated. "I think the chief [Justice John Roberts] is already wrestling with concerns about the politics, the way that the public more and more views the court as a political institution. Whatever the outcome is here ... those views will simply be amplified. So it's an interesting conundrum. I don't envy the chief, and other members of the court, quite frankly, so we will have to wait and see. It's a difficult issue."

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Giuliani hawks bizarre vitamin bottle Xmas ornaments after financially ruinous verdict

Just hours after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was told to immediately pay the massive $148 million bill he was hit with in a defamation ruling, he was on his show touting bizarre Christmas decorations made out of empty vitamin bottles.

The ex-New York City mayor was told Wednesday he must pay Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss immediately after an earlier ruling set the damages for defaming them with claims that they helped rig the 2020 election count in Georgia.

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'What a joke': Morning Joe shreds conservative legal complaints about Colorado ruling

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough flatly rejected conservative arguments against the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that disqualified Donald Trump from holding political office.

Former attorney general Bill Barr claimed the ruling would help Trump politically, and many others have argued that his political fate should be decided at the ballot box, but the "Morning Joe" host laughed off claims that the decision was anti-democratic.

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