Jack Smith

A new Rolling Stone report reveals some of Donald Trump's allies are beginning to refer to former chief of staff Mark Meadows using a rat emoji in text messages.

A statement from Meadows' lawyer earlier this month left many wondering if it meant the Trump loyalist was flipping on the president to save himself.

When Bill Barr was serving as U.S. attorney general under former President Donald Trump, he was known for being a Trump loyalist. And Trump, in 2019, praised Barr as a major improvement over the ex-attorney general he had fired, Jeff Sessions.

But that was before Barr refused to go along with Trump's false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. Barr and Trump had a major falling out in December 2020, when Barr resigned as attorney general and described Trump's debunked election fraud claims as "bull---t" and "completely bogus."

Former President Donald Trump has reacted to his federal Espionage Act indictment over the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case by claiming he is the victim of political persecution aimed to take him out of contention for president.

But new reporting from The Washington Post that revealed the FBI and Justice Department were reluctant to pursue Trump at all, and dragged their feet on a separate investigation of his role in the January 6 attack for a year, clearly demonstrates it was anything but, said a CNN panel on Tuesday morning.

Jack Smith has tangled with congressional Republicans before, and he's on another collision course with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as he turns up the heat on Donald Trump, according to a report Tuesday.

The special counsel who has indicted the former president in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, and continues to investigate his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, previously drew the ire of Jordan and other GOP lawmakers while investigating how dirty money started flowing through conservative nonprofits into political races following the Supreme Court’s historic Citizens United decision, reported The Daily Beast.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out at the Biden administration after the president's son Hunter Biden accepted a plea deal on federal charges.

Biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors. He also struck a deal for felony diversion on a gun charge.

It appears that special counsel Jack Smith may get his wish to give former President Donald Trump a speedy trial.

Law and Crime News' Adam Klasfeld reports that the jury trial in the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents case is set to begin on August 14th, 2023 under Judge Aileen Cannon.

During an interview with Fox News aired on Monday, June 19, former President Donald Trump had a lot to say about the 37-count federal criminal indictment he is facing. Special counsel Jack Smith and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) allege that Trump endangered the United States' national security by storing classified government documents at Mar-a-Lago — and that he made matters worse by failing to turn some of them over when they were requested.

The interview is receiving plenty of reactions from media figures and legal experts, many of whom believe that Trump hurt his case by acknowledging he didn't give investigators his full cooperation.

Donald Trump appeared on the Fox News network on Monday, where legal analysts believe he did more harm than good for his case in the stolen documents trial.

Speaking about the segment on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal, along with Andrew Weissmann and Bradley Moss, listened to the interview on camera, shaking their heads and occasionally chuckling.

Former President Donald Trump doesn't know what to do now that he has been indicted on federal charges for stashing highly classified national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago resort — and is even "scared."

That's the opinion of Andrew Weissman, former lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, after having listened to the former president's disastrous interview with Bret Baier on Fox News.

During a panel discussion about Black poverty and the disproportionate number of Black women who die in childbirth, MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan briefly mentioned the interview Fox News had with Donald Trump on Monday night — which resulted in people on the left mocking the former president's performance and has folks on the right scratching their heads.

Among the claims that Trump made when speaking with Fox News' Bret Baier was that he could have declassified the documents he had when he was president. It should thus continue after his presidency. Baier was asking about the recording in which Trump revealed that he "should have" declassified the document he was showing to the biographers working with Mark Meadows for his book. On the tape, Trump makes it clear that he understands he shouldn't be showing the Iran war planning document and that it was secret.

Former President Donald Trump's one-time attorney general, William Barr, suggested that special counsel Jack Smith is now likely to indict him in the January 6 investigation, reported the New York Sun.

This comes after the special counsel already indicted the former president on 37 charges related to stashing boxes of highly classified national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida, along with his longtime valet and body man Walt Nauta, who allegedly helped him move around and conceal the boxes from federal investigators.

Republicans in Congress have been pushing a narrative that President Joe Biden is using the Justice Department and the FBI to attack his foes. A new report in The Washington Post reveals that the opposite is the case. Despite piling evidence, state referrals, and months-long public congressional hearings, the DOJ held back.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace explained that one of the understandings "for why we are here" is uncovering that the decisions that have been made thus far are "inherently political. Where the Barr Justice Department was aggressively, proactively, political through its actions, the Garland Justice Department has been equally political through inaction and through reluctance if there was truly a culture, as Carol reports, that saying Trump was taboo, that they were walking on eggshells because of who had committed the crime, that is a political culture."

A Florida judge ordered Donald Trump's defense lawyers not to release any evidence related to the classified documents case to the media or the public, The Guardian reported.

US magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart on Monday agreed with prosecutors who wanted the court to restrict how the defense handles the evidence.