Jack Smith

A former staffer issued a stern warning to former President Donald Trump over complaints that he's the victim of a political witch hunt in a "cold on purpose" courtroom where he claims he's treated like Nelson Mandala.

Former deputy press secretary Sara Matthews spoke on CNN Monday about Trump's off-the-cuff rants outside the Manhattan criminal courtroom where he stands accused of falsifying business records to cover up hush money paid ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Special counsel Jack Smith believes that Donald Trump's valet and co-defendant in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta, has two incriminating photos in his phone, according to a Monday Newsweek report.

This comes just two weeks after CNN reported Nauta "was told that if he was charged with lying to the FBI, the former president would pardon him when he won a second term in 2024, according to notes from an interview with a witness in the federal classified documents investigation."

Former President Donald Trump shared a rare post on Truth Social Monday, mere moments after the day's proceedings in criminal hush money trial concluded, of a famous actor and vocal critic condemning the Supreme Court's delays in his presidential immunity case.

"You may remember me, I used to fall down a lot on purpose," a smiling Dick Van Dyke tells the camera. "Our Supreme Court has delayed any decision about our president's immunity and at the same time they've stalled everything.

At the same donor luncheon at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Saturday where Donald Trump swore at President Joe Biden, special counsel Jack Smith and attacked his other perceived foes, the former president also complained he wasn't raising enough cash from the attending wealthy donors.

Buried deep in a Washington Post report of the former president's profanity-laden speech where he ranted about Biden's "Gestapo" and called the DOJ's Smith a “f-----g a--hole,” is a note that the former was not happy about having to have his picture taken with so many attendees.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon still hasn't set a trial date in former President Donald Trump's classified documents case in the Southern District of Florida. And a date could be even further off after new allegations leveled by a member of Trump's defense team.

The Daily Beast reported that Stanley Woodward — an attorney for Trump "body man" Walt Nauta — is alleging "vindictive prosecution" by Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith. This stems from an incident in which prosecutor Jay Bratt, who is working under Smith, reportedly implied that Woodward's representation of Nauta could complicate a possible judicial appointment in Washington, D.C. courts. Defense lawyers also say that Bratt engaged in a "campaign of intimidation and harassment" against Woodward to exert pressure.

Former President Donald Trump's latest demand to toss his Florida federal court case was published Thursday, making public his argument that Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information first, President Joe Biden is vindictive and the former president is the victim of discrimination, court records show.

Todd Blanche — the lead attorney in both this and Trump's ongoing criminal hush money case in New York City — released Thursday a sweeping 178-page motion to dismiss special counsel Jack Smith's criminal indictment linked to classified documents found in the former president's social club Mar-a-Lago.

While Donald Trump's trial in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s hush money case is moving along at a rapid pace, it appears unlikely that either of special counsel Jack Smith's federal cases against the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee will go to trial before the November election.

Smith's election interference case is in limbo while the U.S. Supreme Court weighs Trump's absolute immunity claims, and the Mar-a-Lago documents trial has been repeatedly delayed by Judge Aileen Cannon.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted a motion filed by special counsel Jack Smith Wednesday that would force one of Donald Trump's co-defendants to redact an upcoming filing in a classified documents case.

In a court document filed last month, Smith said he was concerned about "certain portions" of briefs that defendant Walt Nauta and Trump presented to the court. Smith contended that those portions of the briefs "require extensive redactions."

In recent years, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has been in hot water over his failure to disclose luxury junkets paid for by far-right billionaire donors. But a new report shows that federal judges across the country are effectively doing the same thing, with little to no accountability.

A Wednesday report by National Public Radio found that dozens of federal district and circuit court judges — appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents — are routinely failing to file timely financial disclosure reports as required by law.