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Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal worries former Donald Trump was trying to make money from classified documents found in his Mar-a-Lago home.

Speaking on MSNBC Monday – just after news broke that special counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed financial records from the Trump Organization's business deals with seven countries since 2017. According to Katyal, it could mean Smith is following the money from the government documents Trump took.

The special counsel's investigation into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents has subpoenaed records from the Trump Organization, including foreign financial records from seven countries, The New York Times reported Monday.

"It remains unclear precisely what the prosecutors were hoping to find by sending the subpoena to Mr. Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, or when it was issued," the Times reported. "But the subpoena suggests that investigators have cast a wider net than previously understood as they scrutinize whether he broke the law in taking sensitive government materials with him upon leaving the White House and then not fully complying with demands for their return."

Donald Trump's exhortation to Republicans to play hardball with Democrats on a budget deal has less to do with elevating the power of the GOP-dominated House and more to do with his own personal goal to stay out of jail, according to a former assistant U.S. attorney.

Writing in The Bulwark, Dennis Aftergut suggested the former president is playing with fire by encouraging economic chaos with a possible debt default by encouraging GOP lawmakers to not bend as the clock ticks down.

According to Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, the Supreme Court experienced a sea change when it came to issuing emergency rulings that helped Donald Trump get his way without the court having to explain their legal reasoning.

In an interview with Politico, Vladeck, whose book "The Shadow Docket" explains how the court is hiding how they arrive at the rulings, said that under the Trump administration emergency petitions for rulings went through the roof, with the court repeatedly siding with the former president.

In a late-night posting on his Truth Social platform, Donald Trump lashed out at special counsel Jack Smith for investigating him on multiple fronts and bizarrely claimed that he and his family and friends are on a "treasonous quest."

Smith is currently conducting several investigations of the former president, including his refusal to return sensitive government documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago, his ties to the Jan. 6 insurrection which caused lawmakers to flee the Capitol, and his fundraising activities after he lost the 2020 presidential election.

Speaking to CBS News this Thursday, former Attorney General Bill Barr said that the legal case that currently poses the greatest threat to former President Donald Trump is his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

"I've said all along that of the cases out there right now, the one I'd be most concerned about, if I were the president, is the Mar-a-Lago document case," Barr told CBS News anchor Catherine Herridge.

The National Archives has notified U.S. Dept. of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith it has critical evidence proving Donald Trump knew his claims about being able to declassify classified and top secret documents just by declaring them declassified were false.

CNN in an exclusive report reveals the National Archives (NARA) says it has a set of 16 documents detailing communications between them and Trump's top staffers, and Trump himself, that shows procedures required to declassify intelligence.

Donald Trump is under criminal investigation over his handling of classified documents but it's his alleged obstruction of that investigation that poses the most serious risk to the former president, according to a law professor.

Melissa Murray, a New York University law professor and former clerk of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, appeared on MSNBC's Deadline Whitehouse with Nicolle Wallace on Thursday. Wallace asked Murray about the significance of documents that CNN reported are going to special counsel Jack Smith, and which might undermine Trump's claims that he doesn't know how to declassify documents. Trump has continually claimed he had the "right" to take and keep the records.

Former President Donald Trump's lawyer Jim Trusty implied Wednesday night that his client is not obligated to comply with subpoenas.

Trusty spoke with CNN's Sara Sidner about the former president's refusal to comply with a subpoena in DOJ special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the classified documents that Trump stashed at Mar-a-Lago. The former president has released several "angry videos" to Truth Social maligning the special counsel, accusing him of being "a harasser" and "an abuser" for conducting the ongoing investigation.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough believes Donald Trump's gathering legal problems will eventually hurt him with Republican voters.

The National Archives has notified the former president that it will hand over 16 records to special counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating classified documents that were found in Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. The records reportedly show that the former president and his advisers were aware of the correct declassification process, which the "Morning Joe" host said undercuts his stated defense and could help prove a key element in a criminal case.