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Revealed: Trump seeks trial date in 2026 for Jack Smith's election conspiracy case

Donald Trump through his attorneys on Thursday asked that the trial date in the federal Jan. 6 election conspiracy case be pushed to April 2026.

Special counsel Jack Smith had requested that the trial start Jan. 2, 2024.

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'He's mapping out the entire conspiracy!' Morning Joe reacts to 'staggering' Roger Stone video

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reacted to a "staggering" new video that shows Roger Stone mapping out the plot to steal the 2020 election.

The network aired exclusive footage Wednesday night on "The Beat" showing the longtime Republican dirty trickster dictating a strategy on Nov. 5, 2020, to overturn a potential Donald Trump loss by pressuring GOP-led state legislatures, and the former president's attorneys crafted legal justification for the phony electors who sent fraudulent paperwork to Congress and the National Archives ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

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GOP 'quietly panicking' over 'devastating' poll numbers on Trump crimes: Morning Joe

Donald Trump may have finally reached a tipping point with voters after his fourth indictment, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Republicans were "quietly panicking" about their 2024 chances.

The twice-impeached ex-president was charged with racketeering in Georgia for his role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to overturn his election loss in the state, and he faces charges in two federal cases and another case in New York, and the "Morning Joe" host pointed to new poll numbers that show few Americans believe he did nothing wrong.

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Analysts identify 30 'unknown' individuals in Trump's Georgia indictment

The Daily Beast and Just Security think they have sussed out who some of the alleged "unindicted co-conspirators" are in the Georgia indictment that includes Donald Trump along with numerous other individuals.

In an analysis Wednesday, the sites listed out their best guesses at the secret names in the court documents that are generally referred to as "individual" and a number. Individual 1, for example, they believe is Tom Fitton, which the Beast describes as "the Trump-enamored leader of Judicial Watch." Most recently, the non-lawyer was purportedly giving legal advice to the former president.

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Where will Trump go on trial first? Jack Smith and Fani Willis — and judges — need to work out conflicts

If a person is charged by federal and state prosecutors – or prosecutors in different states – at the same time, which case goes first?

A county grand jury in Atlanta indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 associates on Aug. 14, 2023, on a collective 41 felony counts, including racketeering and forgery. The charges are linked to Trump’s alleged criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results.

The latest, sweeping state charges come on top of other mounting legal trouble Trump is facing at the state and federal levels.

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'Paper trail': Ex-prosecutor shows why Trump may have used Twitter DMs but not texts

Donald Trump is known for never leaving a "paper trail" in the form of texts or emails, but he may have used Twitter DMs because he thought they couldn't be accessed, according to a former prosecutor.

Former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance, who spent 20 years as a federal prosecutor, appeared on The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday, and was asked about how Special Counsel Jack Smith was reportedly looking into the former president's direct messages from his now-abandoned social media account.

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Another Trump co-defendant accused of attorney conflict: report

Yet another Donald Trump co-defendant has been accused of having conflicted counsel in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, according to reports.

Earlier in August, the Department of Justice said it might warrant disqualification that the lawyer representing Walt Nauta, the longtime Trump-aide who was first indicted alongside the former President in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, due to a possible conflict of interest. Now, Special Counsel Jack Smith has made a similar complaint about the later-charged property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, according to the Guardian's report.

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Special counsel Jack Smith has Trump’s Twitter direct messages after court order

Special counsel Jack Smith has obtained a cache of former President Trump’s Twitter direct messages after a federal judge ordered the social media company to hand them over last winter, court papers revealed late Tuesday. Prosecutors received an undisclosed number of messages sent from Trump’s Twitter account (now called X), along with drafts and deleted messages, as part of a trove of information account including public tweets and other data. It was previously not known that Trump, who famously avoids email and text messaging, used Twitter’s direct messaging feature to communicate. The revel...

Report that Trump says will exonerate him mocked by his former lawyer: ‘Good chance’ it becomes ‘evidence against him’

Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb is mocking a report Donald Trump says will exonerate him and prove his claims the 2020 presidential election in Georgia was "rigged." Trump is facing 13 felony charges in Fulton County, Georgia related to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of that state's election in what District Attorney Fani Willis charges was a "conspiracy," "racketeering," and a "criminal enterprise."

Cobb is a former federal prosecutor turned white collar criminal lawyer who has defended clients in corruption and money laundering cases. He was brought in to support the Trump White House's efforts to respond to the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and any possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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Trump reneged on 'handshake agreement' to pay lawyers pushing false election claims: report

Four of former President Donald Trump's legal advisers listed as unidentified co-conspirators in United States Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's criminal indictment for the alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election were never paid "despite the fact that their lawsuits and false claims of election interference helped the Trump campaign and allied committees raise $250 million in the weeks following the November vote," CNBC's Brian Schwartz reports.

"Trump has a long history of not paying his bills," Schwarts writes, noting one of the people that he "stiffed" was Rudy Giuliani, the ex-New York City mayor who was Trump's personal defense counsel and a long-time personal friend.

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'This guy cannot win!' Republican governor says Trump will 'crush' the GOP if allowed to continue

Former President Donald Trump's mounting indictments and legal problems are going to drag down the entire Republican Party if they can't unite behind a candidate to replace him, warned Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) on CNN Tuesday evening.

"[ Trump] doesn't have to want to talk about issues," said Sununu, a frequent critic of the former president. "He doesn't want to have to talk about going forward in healing America, and all these things that the rest of America wants to see. He wants to re-litigate the past, and we're kind of letting him do that. Which is unfortunate."

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Trump's allies frantically trying to get rid of Georgia case: report

Donald Trump's closest supporters are working overtime to try to squash the criminal case out of Fulton County, Georgia, according to a Rolling Stone report.

Trump is currently facing two criminal cases at the federal level, including Jack Smith's case stemming from the former president's efforts to overturn his loss in 2020. He's also now facing two state-based cases, which present a unique challenge for Trump since they can't necessarily be pardoned away, according to the exclusive article.

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'Valuable information': Legal expert reveals why Jack Smith wanted Trump's Twitter DMs

Special counsel Jack Smith can gain "valuable information" from being able to directly access former President Donald Trump's Twitter account, explained former Robert Mueller investigation prosecutor Ryan Goodman on Tuesday's edition of CNN's "OutFront."

Smith's search warrant to obtain Trump's long-dormant account on Twitter, since renamed X, was first reported last week. Trump has long abandoned the platform even after his post-January 6 ban was lifted in favor of his own Truth Social website, but the account is still full of communications he had before the attack — both public and potentially private.

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