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Michael Cohen thinks Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are Jack Smith's 'inside moles'

Jared Kushner testified before a grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, but former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen believes the ex-president's son-in-law has been talking all along to investigators.

Special counsel Jack Smith's team reportedly asked the former White House official whether Trump genuinely believed he had won the 2020 election or whether he knew his fraud claims were bogus, and Cohen told CNN that Kushner wouldn't have been asked to appear unless investigators felt confident he could help establish corrupt intent.

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'He brought it entirely on himself': Bill Barr says 'anybody' who did what Trump did would go to prison

As former President Donald Trump continues to insist he is the victim of a witch hunt in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, one of the former president's one-time strongest legal allies is continuing to sound the alarm that he needs to be prosecuted: former Attorney General William Barr.

In an interview with Steve Inskeep on NPR's "Morning Edition," Barr reiterated this stance — and demolished all of the claims from the MAGA world that Trump is being treated unfairly.

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Jack Smith sends Trump staffer target letter 'indicating that he might have perjured himself': ABC News

Special counsel Jack Smith recently sent a target letter to a staffer working for former President Donald Trump that indicated "he might have perjured himself" when talking to investigators this past May, reports ABC News.

According to the report, the letter "signals Smith's growing interest in the Trump Organization's handling of the surveillance footage and potential efforts to avoid sharing it with investigators."

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'He’s only losing voters': Iowa evangelicals fear Trump is doomed in 2024

Evangelical Christians in Iowa who backed former President Donald Trump in 2020 are expressing unease about nominating him again in 2024.

Semafor reports that a Frank Luntz-led group of Iowa evangelicals this week found cracks in the former president's support despite the fact that polls show him easily beating top rival Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Kyle Rittenhouse supporter loses defamation suit against man who called him racist online

A controversial Wisconsin man whose call to arms was answered by Kyle Rittenhouse lost his defamation case against another man who had called him a white nationalist on social media.

Kevin Mathewson, a former Kenosha city council member and controversial local blogger, had sued Raymond Roberts, of Sturtevant, for repeatedly calling him a racist on Facebook and claiming that he was training his children to become suicide bombers, but a jury rejected his defamation complaint, reported the Racine County Eye.

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Florida voter registrations down sharply since DeSantis-led crackdown on fraud claims

Florida Republicans have imposed thousands of dollars in fines on voter registration groups in the state.

Fines totaling more than $100,000 were levied by the state’s newly established office of election crimes and security against at least 26 groups -- including for-profit and nonprofit organizations and both the statewide Democratic and Republican parties -- as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis' crackdown on alleged voter fraud, reported The Guardian.

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Jack Smith can prove 'Trump participated in an insurrection': Former Bush official

Donald Ayer, a former deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, appeared on CNN Friday to make the case that special counsel Jack Smith has the evidence he needs to show former President Donald Trump participated in an insurrection against the United States government.

Ayer started off by arguing that the DOJ would be very careful in bringing charges of supporting an insurrection against Trump, but he argued that prosecutors had what they needed to make such a charge stick.

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Inside Trump's plan to reach voters who don't watch the news

Donald Trump is trying to reach potential voters who don't engage with traditional news media by appearing on podcasts and showing up at combat sporting events.

The former president turned up recently on boxing legend Mike Tyson's podcast "Hotboxin'" as part of his campaign's strategic outreach to men who are interested in combat or contact sports but don't watch much news, and he'll appear on the popular "UFC Unfiltered" podcast after making an appearance at an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Las Vegas, reported Politico.

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'Sign of the prosecution to come': Ex-prosecutor says Jack Smith 'embarrasses' Trump in new filing

Jack Smith's recently posted brief dismantling Donald Trump's request for a post-2024 election date was hailed by a former prosecutor who said Thursday he hopes it's a "sign of the prosecution to come."

The brief, which purportedly demolished the arguments made by Trump's team earlier in the week in an attempt to delay the classified documents trial until after the 2024 election, argued that the former president's reliance upon the Presidential Records Act in the criminal case "borders on frivolous."

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Trump would have to 'not be in his right mind' to think he won in 2020: ex-GOP counsel

Former President Donald Trump's intent and motivations will play an essential role in the type of charges special counsel Jack Smith can bring against him in the Janaury 6 criminal investigation — as laid bare by his new meetings with Jared Kushner and Hope Hicks, asking them whether Trump truly believed he had had the election stolen from him.

Former GOP House counsel Sophia Nelson joined CNN on Thursday to break down her assessment of Trump's state of mind.

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'There's so much evidence': ex-prosecutor outlines most straightforward charge to convict Trump

Special Counsel Jack Smith could ultimately bring a fresh round of indictments against former President Donald Trump and his associates, this time in connection with the January 6 investigation.

It remains unclear what those specific charges would be; however, former federal corruption prosecutor and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington chief Noah Bookbinder told MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Thursday that one charge in particular would be easy to prove.

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Trump had 'no legal right' to overturn the election even if he thought he won: expert

One of the most important elements for special counsel Jack Smith to establish in order to charge former President Donald Trump in connection with the plots to overturn the 2020 presidential election, is to establish his intent — something he is attempting to do with his new interviews with Hope Hicks and Jared Kushner.

But crucially, New York University law professor and former Pentagon special counsel Ryan Goodman told a CNN panel on Thursday, that does not mean Smith has to prove Trump didn't truly believe that the election was stolen from him.

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Jared Kushner and Hope Hicks key to zeroing in on Trump's intent: ex-prosecutor

Two of Donald Trump's longtime top aides — his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and political adviser Hope Hicks, were interviewed by special counsel Jack Smith as part of the criminal investigation into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. According to reports, Kushner told Smith that Trump genuinely believed the election had been stolen from him.

These interviews are massively important to establish the former president's intent, argued former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers on CNN Thursday.

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