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The FBI earlier this month conducted a mysterious search at the property of Tim Burke, a former journalist who worked at both Deadspin and the Daily Beast.

Now the Tampa Bay Times is reporting that the raid was related to an apparent hack of Fox News that resulted in unaired footage from Tucker Carlson's former show on that network being leaked to Vice News and Media Matters.

A report from the New York Times that investigators working for special counsel Jack Smith have issued a subpoena demanding information from the Trump Organization regarding its international business dealings led Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton to suggest Smith and his people should place their emphasis on financial ties to the ruling family in Saudi Arabia.

According to the Times report, "The subpoena — drafted by the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith — sought details on the Trump Organization’s real estate licensing and development dealings in seven countries: China, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, according to the people familiar with the matter.

Reflecting on an abrasive letter attorneys for Donald Trump sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding an audience to complain about the investigations headed up by special counsel Jack Smith, Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte suggested there is a reason the former president's legal team agreed to it despite the fact it likely will "backfire."

Earlier in the week, Trump attorneys John Rowley and James Trusty wrote to Garland and laid out their reasons in decidedly non-legalistic terms, which led many legal scholars to speculate that it was dictated by Trump and his attorneys agreed to sign it.

A federal court may have fired a warning shot to Donald Trump by imposing lengthy sentences for some of the organizers of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

District Court judge Amit Mehta sentenced Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and ordered his top lieutenant, Kelly Meggs, to serve 12 years for the same crime, and legal expert Dennis Aftergut wrote a column for The Bulwark analyzing the message that sent to Trump and his supporters.

With special counsel Jack Smith reportedly zeroing on a possible indictment or more out of several investigations of Donald Trump, MSNBC analyst Jordan Rubin suggested that the former president should not be happy at how hard U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta came down hard on Oath Keepers head Stewart Rhodes during sentencing on Thursday.

Rhodes now faces the prospect of 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy, with the judge telling him he was “targeting an institution of American democracy at its most important moment.”

According to the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, Donald Trump's oldest son has been ramping up his anti-federal government rhetoric in an effort to cast doubt on indictments expected to be filed against his father in the near future.

With reports that Special Counsel Jack Smith is close to wrapping up his inquiry into the former president for taking sensitive government documents with him to his Mar-a-Lago resort and then forcing the FBI to show up with a warrant to reclaim them, Don Jr. has been accusing the FBI of fraud in a series of unrelated incidents.

Former President Donald Trump has already been indicted on felony charges in the state of New York, and now his lawyers are reportedly preparing him to get hit with federal charges as well.

Sources tell Rolling Stone that Trump's allies are telling him that he appears very likely to be indicted by special counsel Jack Smith's office in the Mar-a-Lago documents case where he stashed top-secret government documents at his private resort and refused to return them even after receiving a subpoena.

Mark Meadows is rumored to be cooperating with federal investigators looking into Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, which legal experts say could be ruinous for the former president.

A source connected to Trump told CNN they've heard rumors that the former White House chief of staff, who's advising Republican lawmakers during the ongoing debt-ceiling negotiation, may be cooperating with federal investigators or possibly is a target of a criminal probe himself, and Newsweek reported that legal expert Ryan Goodman said that would be a major development.