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Donald Trump's daughter-in-law is reportedly hinting at a high-profile new position in the incoming administration.

Trump was instrumental in installing Lara as the co-chair of the Republican National Committee. She announced in December she would step down from that role, but there may be something else on the horizon, she told a conservative outlet over the weekend.

Special counsel Jack Smith, who spearheaded multiple criminal cases against Donald Trump, has reportedly resigned from the Department of Justice.

Smith was rumored to be ready to leave after he formally announced he was wrapping up the federal proceedings against the President-elect. The law forbids federal cases from being pursued against the White House occupant.

A former Republican insider on Saturday questioned the motivations of Donald Trump, citing seemingly "arbitrary" moves the President-elect has been making.

Brendan Buck, a former key adviser to ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), appeared on MSNBC over the weekend and was asked about Trump's recent "bizarre" proposals, such as renaming the Gulf of Mexico "Gulf of America."

A Donald Trump ally said he told the President-elect to his face that he and other GOP lawmakers "do not want" an idea Trump has floated in several interviews.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) was floated by Trump as a potential vice presidential candidate before J.D. Vance was ultimately selected, and Donalds frequently defends the former and incoming president in interviews on TV.

According to a former SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief, Attorney General Merrick Garland can resolve his dilemma over the release of special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of Donald Trump's stolen government documents with a simple instruction to his Department of Justice.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Katie Phang on Saturday afternoon, ex-prosecutor Kristy Greenberg claimed Garland's decision to release the report to select lawmakers is wrongheaded and easily fixed.

At issue, she noted to the host, is Garland's fears that information revealed in the report could impact the potential trials of Trump associates Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira which is currently under appeal after being shut down by Trump appointee Judge Aileen Cannon.

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According to Greenberg, "Merrick Garland has, you know, made I think, a really bad call here. He said, 'Well, because this appeal of Cannon's dismissal of the case, as to those two co-defendants is still going on, because that's pending, we're not going to publicly release the classified documents volume, and we're just going to share it with certain members of congress privately, because releasing it publicly could potentially prejudice those two co-defendants.'"

"Well," she added. "In nine days, that case against those two co-defendants is going away. Trump is going to have his DOJ drop that appeal, so why not just drop the case against them, drop that appeal against them now? And then you can release this report."

"It's silly, it's not pragmatic," she added.

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At a time when the always newsworthy Donald Trump is headed back to the White House, the venerable Washington Post should be gearing up to cover his second term but instead is being subjected to an exodus of top reporters and internal strife, reports the Wall Street Journal's Alexandra Bruell.

In her report for the Journal, Bruell notes that Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos, who bought the Post in 2013 for $250 million, just watched his investment lose around $100 million last year as new management has failed to stop the bleeding.

Donald Trump's 2024 presidential election win is creating havoc in his hometown of Palm Beach as supporters and supplicants invade the town causing traffic problems for some of the wealthy denizens who don't appreciate the crowds and the traffic they bring.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Trump making his Mar-a-Lago resort his home after he bolted out of New York City has created problems for the beach community that has only grown since he was re-elected.

The report notes the Secret Service shutdowns of main routes about town has riled longtime residents –– in particular some of the wealthier ones who are not used to being inconvenienced.

Recalling how he was pursued when Donald Trump was in the White House the first time, a former Trump lawyer suggested that critics of the president-elect would be foolish if they didn't ask President Joe Biden for a pardon or turned one down if offered

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Michael Cohen, the man who was once called Trump "fixer" described his own time in jail –– including solitary confinement –– and said anyone possibly facing being investigated by the incoming Trump administration should take the threat seriously.

Speaking with co-host Symone Sanders Townsend, Cohen was asked if he has heard from anyone in the Biden administration prompting him with, "Folks who have prominently gone out and said, 'I do not want a pardon,' the president is not going to issue a pardon to people that don't want one."

Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann called out Attorney General Merrick Garland on MSNBC on Saturday morning for stalling on releasing special counsel Jack Smith's final report on his Donald Trump investigations.

Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Weissmann stated that the attorney general is wrong to limit the release of the portion of Smith's report having to do with the stolen government documents the president-elect hoarded at his Mar-a-Lago report.

That led to the normally placid Weissmann to blurt out, "Come on!"

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"It is not so much Judge [Aileen] Cannon or the 11th Circuit that we have to worry about," he told the hosts. "It is that Merrick Garland has said that he, Merrick Garland, does not want to release that publicly. He only wants to give that to Congress and certain people in Congress. Why? Because he says that there's two co-defendants of Donald Trump, still may have a criminal case pending in Florida. I think he's wrong on that; technically, there is no case pending."

With MSNBC co-hosts Michael Steele and Symone Sanders Townsend interrupting and excitedly asking, "Where's the case?" Weissmann stated, "I think he got something technically wrong when he said there is a pending case."

"Judge Cannon pointedly, when she dismissed the case before her, as to all three defendants not just Donald Trump, she ordered the case closed," he elaborated. "Now, it is true that the Department of Justice is appealing that decision as to the two co-defendants but come on! There's no pending case in the district court per Judge Cannon's own order and everybody knows that on January 20th that that case is never going to go forward."

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During an appearance on MSNBC's The Weekend," a former FBI general counsel urged the release of special counsel Jack Smith's final report on his investigation into Donald Trump stealing government documents and suggested it could contain "interesting details" that could have a bearing on one of his Cabinet picks.

Speaking with the hosts, Andrew Weissmann explained that he was interested in seeing what Smith found which could have a bearing on the nomination of Kash Patel to be the next FBI director.

"Basically on Monday, unless things change, the temporary stay that Judge [Aileen] Cannon issued is over," he began. "She shouldn't have even issued that with respect to either part of the report, but certainly the January 6th part is not a case that's in front of her."

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"So by Monday, unless things change, we should see that report related to the January 6th investigation, and there could be interesting new details in that report," he continued. "With respect to the Mar-a-Lago part, the classified document part, I think that is something really worth keeping our eye on because there could be lots of information in there, not just about Donald Trump and why he did what he did, but also about Kash Patel, who is reported to have gone to the grand jury and has said that he was there when Donald Trump allegedly declassified everything."

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