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Donald Trump's legal team has issued its response to the Justice Department's request for a protective order in its January 6 case against the former president.

The request was spurred by Trump's post of his social media platform Friday: "IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!"

Former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik met with prosecutors for special counsel Jack Smith Monday as part of the investigation into the 2020 election plot, CNN reported on Monday.

According to the report, Kerik, a close ally of Trump associate Rudy Giuliani, was asked for information on what Giuliani tried to do to gather evidence that the election was stolen from the former president. He was seen arriving for the interview with his attorney on Monday morning, where he stayed for five hours before they departed.

John Eastman, the attorney who is awaiting potential indictment for his alleged role in leading Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has sought the postponement of disbarment proceedings that are ongoing against him, Politico reports.

Eastman, who is identified as “co-conspirator 2” in the Jan. 6 election conspiracy case against Donald Trump, cited his ongoing legal issues in his request through attorneys to a California judge in an Aug. 4 filing.

Fox News anchor Julie Banderas on Monday struggled to understand why it would be illegal for former President Donald Trump to attempt to stay in office even after losing an election to President Joe Biden.

While discussing the potential fourth criminal indictment of the former president, Banderas ran through some of the behaviors that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may charge Trump with and then declared each action to be perfectly within the bounds of the law.

U.S. District Court judge Aileen Cannon demanded an explanation from special counsel Jack Smith for his continuing investigation into Donald Trump's mishandling of classified documents.

The Florida-based federal judge struck two sealed motions filed by prosecutors in a ruling issued Monday morning and appeared to disclose that Smith was investigating the classified documents case in a grand jury proceeding in another district, and Cannon asked for an explanation to be filed by Aug. 22.

Faced with his most serious indictment yet over charges involving 2020 election theft conspiracy, former President Donald Trump has demanded all sorts of changes to the trial in order to try to tilt the playing field more aggressively in his favor.

Specifically, the former president and his legal team have demanded the trial venue be switched to West Virginia, which they claim is more "diverse" than Washington, D.C. — and Trump has also demanded the recusal of D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, on the grounds that she has also presided over trials of January 6 riot defendants, which have touched on his own actions.

Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on special counsel Jack Smith and U.S. District Court judge Tanya Chutkan hours before his legal team has been ordered to answer for his previous comments about his prosecution.

The special counsel's office asked Chutkan to set limits on what Trump's team could do with evidence shared with them after Trump posted an apparent threat against witnesses in the case, and the judge set a deadline for 5 p.m. Monday to respond to that motion -- and the former president continued commenting.

Donald Trump again signaled his concern about the possibility of former Vice President Mike Pence testifying against him in the Jan. 6 case.

The ex-president has been charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S., conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing an official proceeding and violating a Reconstruction-era civil rights statute that makes it a crime to conspire to violate rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution, and Trump appears to realize Pence would be a key witness against him at trial.

Reacting to a speech Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) gave in his home state over the weekend where he made self-deprecating jokes about himself while praising Donald Trump, "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough flayed the senior Republican for "groveling" in public.

In a clip shown on MSNBC on Monday morning, Graham can be seen mildly joking, "People ask, 'What happened with you and Trump?' I said, 'Well, he beat me like a drum,' and I acknowledged that he did. He sort of liked hearing that, but we found something in common: I've come to like him, and he likes him and that gets us through 18 holes of golf."

He later added, "One thing I can tell you, you better not screw with this guy or you'll regret it."

After first bursting out laughing, Scarborough began, "I keep asking what's worth that? I can tell you, having a Congressional pin is not."

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"In fact, I don't think anything is worth humiliating yourself the way Lindsey does," he added. "We can expand this agin: Donald Trump threatened a federal prosecutor saying, "I'm coming after you," calling him deranged on stage, no doubt knowing that this was going to amp up the number of death threats that [special counsel] Jack Smith had."

"And yet, Republicans in the House and the Senate sit meekly by, quietly by, and continue to act like this is normal," he accused.

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Donald Trump's closest allies are nervous they'll be swept up in his latest indictment.

The twice-impeached former president was indicted last week for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, and his closest advisers are taking this set of charges seriously, reported The Daily Beast.

A conservative attorney who writes under the pseudonym A.G. Hamilton and who has written articles for the conservative National Review took his fellow right-wingers to task on Twitter Sunday for incorrectly framing special counsel Jack Smith's newest indictment of former President Donald Trump as a matter of "free speech."

In particular, Hamilton called out Trump partisans who argue that the former president is being indicted simply for making false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, when in reality he's being indicted for using those false claims as a basis to illegally overturn the certified results of the election.