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Christina Bobb, an attorney for Donald Trump, claimed that 16 Republican fake electors were charged in Michigan in an effort to force them to testify against her client.

The 16 so-called fake electors were charged this week in connection to a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Speaking to the audience of a Fox town hall Tuesday, Donald Trump cried about how unfair it was that he received his target letter from the Justice Department on a Sunday. It was a detail that the co-hosts of "The View" found to be both strange and hilarious.

Acting overly dramatic with fake sadness, Whoopi Goldberg explained, "You know who went on Hannity last night and discussed how he feels about all of this?"

Former President Donald Trump and his backers often argue that the indictments against him are not hurting him with core supporters — even claiming that they will drive more people to support him.

But at least one significant longtime Trump backer appears to have thrown in the towel the allegations, reported The Seattle Times on Wednesday: Seattle-area property developer Hossein Khorram.

Two whistleblowers alleging that the Department of Justice intervened in the investigation into Hunter Biden's son are set to testify before Congress this Wednesday. The identity of one of the whistleblowers, a 13-year IRS agent identified as "Whistleblower X," will be revealed at today's hearing, Fox News reported.

In Whistleblower X's opening statement to Congress, he will describe himself as a "whistleblower compelled to disclose the truth" and to shed light on "the shadow that looms over our federal legal system."

Donald Trump is reportedly furious at Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for withholding her endorsement for his 2024 campaign.

The former president is frustrated that his former White House press secretary's team told his campaign until after her first legislative session in Arkansas, which ended in May, but she still hasn't publicly backed his re-election bid, two sources told Axios.

Former President Donald Trump, already under New York indictment for his alleged hush payment to an adult film star and under federal indictment for hoarding boxes of highly classified national defense information at Mar-a-Lago, appears likely to face another wave of charges after special counsel Jack Smith sent him a target letter in connection with the January 6 investigation.

It's unclear just how much extra legal jeopardy that will add to Trump's situation, given all the unknowns about when the trial would happen, or whether he could potentially even win the presidency beforehand. However, argued CNN commentator Van Jones on Wednesday, this indictment will go farther than the last to record for history how destructive the former president has been.

Former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore appeared on CNN Wednesday to break down the significance of special counsel Jack Smith's target letter to the former president.

One particularly intriguing exchange came when host Phil Mattingly asked Parlatore if he and other Trump lawyers had ever anticipated Smith potentially leveling a charge related to deprivation of civil rights as they prepared their defenses.

Former New York City police commissioner Bernie Kerik is preparing to sit down with special counsel Jack Smith's team.

Kerik worked with Rudy Giuliani after the 2020 election to find evidence of voter fraud, and his attorney said Tuesday that he was in talks to be interviewed by Department of Justice investigators, reported The Daily Beast.

Donald Trump revealed that he was sent a target letter by special counsel Jack Smith as part of the Jan. 6 investigation, and if he's indicted the charges will be serious.

It's not exactly clear what charges Trump would face, but legal experts have concluded the former president would likely face indictment on charges that date back to the Civil War in connection with his role in the insurrection, reported The Daily Beast.

Former Acting United States Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue on Tuesday refuted the attacks on Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith that House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and ex-President Donald Trump escalated following Trump's revelation that he is a target in Smith's investigation into the plot to steal the 2020 election.

"Rich Donoghue, you worked in the Trump administration. You also know Jack Smith. It sounds like leader McCarthy is basically saying Jack Smith is corrupt, that he has been corrupted. What do you make of that?" NewsNation host Dan Abrams asked on Dan Abrams Live.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Wednesday said that former President Donald Trump's advisers are telling him that winning in 2024 may be the only way to keep him out of jail.

In breaking down the prospect of a potential third criminal indictment against Trump in less than six months, Haberman said that Trump's advisers aren't discounting the notion that he could be found guilty on one of several of the criminal charges leveled against him.

Donald Trump spent part of Tuesday on the phone with top House GOP leaders, including Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, mapping out ways Republican lawmakers can publicly, including using the power of their taxpayer-funded government offices, defend him. The former president announced Tuesday morning he has been told he is a target of the Special Counsel's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Trump "has reached out to some of his top allies on Capitol Hill to strategize how they’re going to defend Trump & go on offense against the special counsel probe," CNN Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona said on social media Tuesday afternoon.

The special counsel’s letter to Donald Trump alerting the former president that he’s the target of Jack Smith’s investigation over efforts to overturn the 2020 election lists conspiracy and obstruction among the federal statutes under which Trump is likely to be charged, Rolling Stone reports.

The letter doesn’t include sedition or insurrection as statutes under investigation by the special counsel, an unnamed source told the outlet.