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With months to go before the first primary is held, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in deep trouble — lagging the former president by 30 points in the polls, struggling to hold together his campaign operation, and miring himself in white-hot controversies like suggesting slavery gave Black Americans useful skills. His only theory of the case for his victory appears to be waiting for former President Donald Trump to be destroyed by his current and impending legal charges, allowing himself to step in and fill a void.

But that was always a pipe dream, argued former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) on CNN Monday.

Former President Donald Trump is facing likely imminent indictment in the January 6 investigation by special counsel Jack Smith, and the decision could come down in a matter of days. And one of the significant episodes that could legally implicate Trump in a deliberate plot to deprive people of their rights, said New York University law professor Ryan Goodman, is his move to fire cybersecurity official Chris Krebs after he vouched for the security of the 2020 election.

This comes on top of the context that Smith is investigating a meeting from early 2020 in which Trump privately praised election security measures, just months before calling those efforts fraudulent.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, already mired behind Trump by roughly 30 points, has faced a series of campaign disasters over the last several days, including doubling down on supporting a state education guideline that says slavery taught Black people useful skills, and is reportedly meeting with aides and donors to plot a campaign reset.

But even if DeSantis manages to turn things around and triumph, against all odds, to win the GOP nomination, noted former Biden White House communications chief Kate Bedingfield on CNN Monday, said he would have an entirely new problem: a furious Trump who will insist he stole the race.

The "Never Trump" group led by Republicans and former Republicans dropped a new ad attacking Donald Trump as an "abuser."

"Sometimes we mock Trump," the group said in a tweet Monday. "Sometimes we call out his clown show. Other days, the harm he’s caused. The pain he’s inflicted. The women he’s mistreated… And reminds us, Donald Trump can never be President again."

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday ahead of an anticipated indictment of Donald Trump this week, former U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner, who runs the "Justice Matters" legal explainer blog, turned to Mark Meadows.

The former Republican lawmaker from North Carolina who became Donald Trump's chief of staff has been largely silent in recent weeks, sparking rumors that he may have sided with the Department of Justice against his former boss. It's only been a month since those close to Trump began referring to Meadows using a rat emoji in text message conversations. Now that a Jan. 6 indictment looms, the Washington Post this weekend questioned the role Meadows will play.

Former President Donald Trump continued his assault on special counsel Jack Smith and other prosecutors that work for the Department of Justice Monday – and his Truth Social attacks have reached such a degree that former Robert Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann thinks that the Washington, D.C. courts will act if Trump is indicted.

"Let's remember that he is out on bail in not one, but two criminal cases," Weissmann said about Trump. "One in Manhattan. One before Aileen Cannon, as you noted. And it's also important to note that if he's indicted in D.C., D.C. has, as part of its standing order, free press, fair trial rules that limit what a defendant can say that could taint a jury."

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) tried to justify throwing away a memorial pin and pamphlet showing a 10-year-old girl who was killed in the Uvalde mass shooting.

The Colorado Republican addressed a widely shared video clip showing her throwing the pin and photo in the trash. She claimed she had not heard the activist who handed her the items when he approached because she was wearing Airpods as she walked in the U.S. Capitol, and she claimed she recognized the man as someone who had made her feel unsafe, reported The Independent.

A newly released video shows a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy throwing a transgender man to the ground during a traffic stop.

Emmett Brock was driving home from his teaching job Feb. 10, 2023, when he saw a deputy "berating" a woman, so he flipped him off, and he said the law enforcement officer then started following him, and the LASD report shows the deputy pulled him over after spotting an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror, reported KTTV-TV.

Ahead of the release of the "Barbie" movie, the far-right invented a conspiracy that the film promoted Chinese Communism and other reasons for outrage. Other conservatives, like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), say it should be the "next Bud Light," a campaign that ended with the beer company pulling back from its campaign targeting LGBTQ customers.

Extremist "Ben Shapiro [claimed] he has destroyed Barbie," said MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) called out Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who is among the Republican lawmakers running for president. According to Kinzinger, Scott "knows better" than to excuse away Donald Trump's culpability with the Jan. 6 attack.

"I hold the folks who broke into the Capitol with ill will in their hearts destroying property, responsible for their actions," Scott told WMUR in "conversation with candidates" in New Hampshire. "I don't hold the former president, who didn't show up at the Capitol, as responsible."

Donald Trump has just hired a lawyer that one of his impeachment attack dogs has worked with and views as a respectable defense attorney. However, he doesn't anticipate it will help much.

Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday, former Ethics Czar and impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen explained that John Lauro is working in the proud tradition of a defense attorney.

CNN's Jim Acosta clashed with Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on Sunday as the host pressed on the seriousness of the former president's classified documents scandal.

This week, Donald Trump made a veiled threat about not putting him in jail, specifically saying it "would be very dangerous" if special counsel Jack Smith sent him to jail. As a point of fact, a jury will decide whether or not to send Trump to jail.

Donald Trump Jr. cried to "Flashpoint" host Gene Bailey that he hasn't been on television recently and he seems upset about it.

Bailey asked if the media would ever change to cover things in a pro-right way; he called it "accurately." The younger Trump agreed it was a "pipe dream."