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Trump will be prosecuted — but for which crime?: Former FBI general counsel

Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann, who also served as a prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller, said that it's likely Donald Trump will be prosecuted. The question is whether it will be for one or both of his legal woes.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow brought up both of Trump's cases during a Monday special following the final meeting of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

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'Yes — definitely a crime!' Maddow explains how J6 Committee delivered oven-ready case to DOJ

In the MSNBC special coverage of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, host Rachel Maddow noted that the members presented their case in a way that makes it easy for the Justice Department to take it straight to a judge.

In fact, they've done it before, and it worked out in their favor.

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'They just threw the book at Trump': MSNBC's Ari Melber reacts to Jan. 6 committee's finale

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress met for the final time on Monday to announce criminal referrals and vote to release the committee's final report before disbanding.

Among the things that they did was refer Donald Trump for criminal prosecution to the Justice Department.

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Jan. 6 committee walks through Trump’s actions that could be considered witness tampering

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and attempt to overturn the 2020 election had its final meeting on Monday walking through all of the evidence they had gathered.

When presenting her piece of information, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) detailed the financial information that was allegedly used to persuade witnesses as they were called to speak to the committee.

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‘Absolutely livid’ Trump will be paying attention to Jan. 6 hearing – despite what he may claim otherwise: former aide

Donald Trump has insisted he doesn't plan on watching the final public hearing of the House select committee, but a former aide said he would most certainly tune in.

The Jan. 6 committee is expected to issue a criminal referral against the former president and possibly others, including right-wing attorney John Eastman, for their efforts to overturn his election loss, and former White House aide Stephanie Grisham told CNN that Trump would be getting live updates at the very least.

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Trump 'angry and disconnected' as criminal charges loom: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discussed the alternate reality Donald Trump had constructed around himself at Mar-a-Lago.

The former president faces legal peril on multiple fronts, including criminal investigations and lawsuits into himself and his family-owned business, but he has surrounded himself with inexperienced sycophants as he launches another presidential campaign that he so far doesn't seem too interested in running.

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There's one thing the new GOP Congress could do to help Trump — but it's a mixed bag

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the election will hold its final meeting on Monday, where it will vote on whether to refer Donald Trump for criminal charges to the Justice Department. The final report is slated to be published online on Dec. 21.

At that point, the whole committee will be disbanded before the Republicans take over Congress in January. But as former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks said after a conversation with Neal Katyal, Republicans could put a hitch in things for the Justice Department.

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'Burn it to the ground': Lake pledges attack against Maricopa County government's 'house of cards'

Republican Kari Lake continued making veiled threats in her speech before a right-wing conference on Sunday.

Speaking to the crowd she attacked Maricopa County, where Phoenix, Arizona is.

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Kari Lake's new accusations about her election loss get even more confusing

One of the many conspiracy theories around the 2020 election is that under the dark of night, "they" stole the election when no one was paying attention. After Kari Lake was defeated in 2022, she had to fumble with another excuse.

"This movement is so powerful, Ben," she told the Real America's Voice streaming network. "They couldn't do what they did in 2020. They stole it in the dark of night, right? In 2020, at 3 a.m. they started changing things up."

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Former prosecutor explains how it will work if Trump is referred to the Justice Department for prosecution

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election will announce their referrals to the Justice Department this coming week. It has been leaked that the committee is going to vote on whether to refer Trump for criminal prosecution along with others, Politico reported Friday.

The concern is that the DOJ will see the demand as a political one and ignore it or that it would look as if the Justice Department special counsel was taking direction from Congress, even if he isn't.

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JFK expert calls out CIA for continuing to hide 4,000 documents from mandated release

Jefferson Morley of "JFK Facts," is taking the government to court after the CIA refused to release 4,000 documents about the JFK assassination findings.

In 1992, Congress passed a mandate that all of the documents around the assassination be released by Oct. 2017, but when former President Donald Trump was in office and the time came to release all of them, he didn't. President Joe Biden has released a whopping 13,000 documents, but the CIA is still refusing to turn over the remaining 4,000 documents.

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'Are we coming to the end?' Morning Joe starting to see a shift in support for Trump

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Donald Trump's latest cash-grab scheme seemed to signal the beginning of the end of his political power.

The former president announced that he's selling non-fungible tokens, or digital trading cards, of himself for $99 each, and the "Morning Joe" host noticed the infomercial-style pitch seemed to embarrass even his most fervent supporters.

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'Sleazy' Trump ridiculed by Morning Joe panel for latest cash grab

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were baffled by Donald Trump's "major announcement" that he was selling digital trading cards of himself for $99 each.

The twice-impeached former president had teased the announcement, which turned out to be a low-quality video hyping the non-fungible tokens and comparing himself favorably to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and the "Morning Joe" co-hosts said even his most fervent supporters seemed to be turned off by the scheme.

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