Jack Smith

A long list of Donald Trump supporters have faced federal criminal charges in connection with the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building, some more serious than others. Trump himself has not been charged with anything January 6-related, although the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and special counsel Jack Smith are investigating his post-2020 election activities.

One of the Trump supporters who allegedly committed acts of violence during the Capitol riot is Homosassa, Florida resident Daniel Ball. According to CNN reporters Andrea Cambron and Holmes Lybrand, Ball is "facing multiple charges in connection with his involvement in the Capitol attack after being arrested last week by the Citrus County Sheriff's Office for allegedly assaulting seven people, including two law enforcement officers, in unrelated charges in Florida."

Former President Donald Trump has threatened to skip some of the primary debates against his opponents for the Republican nomination in 2024 — which would be a repeat of 2016, in which he similarly declined to participate in every debate.

According to Joe Perticone of The Bulwark, many of Trump's allies are embracing this idea.

With Donald Trump facing multiple investigations in New York, Georgia and Washington, D.C., questions are being raised over whether he will be eligible for a pardon should he be found guilty of any of the many crimes he has been accused of.

In a speculative column for Politico, University of Baltimore School of Law professor Kimberly Wehle wrote that there are many paths and outcomes depending upon whether the former president is indicted at the state or federal level, but one charge and conviction would put a pardon out of reach even if Trump is re-elected and tries to absolve himself.

Former Justice Department official Mary McCord penned a column for MSNBC in which she suggested one of the crimes that special counsel Jack Smith might be looking at relates to former Vice President Mike Pence.

Last week, Pence was discovered to have spent a full day with the grand jury around the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.

Former President Donald Trump has threatened to blow off Republican primary debates for the 2024 election, a move that could theoretically crash the viewership of the debates and effectively deny a meaningful platform to candidates who want to challenge him, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

But it didn't have to be this way, argued MSNBC's Ja'han Jones on Monday — and the Republican Party's own decisions allowed it to happen, chiefly by allowing Trump to skip several debates in 2016 without any real consequences.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Alex Witt Show" on Sunday afternoon, former prosecutor Charles Coleman Jr. was asked about a recent New York Times report that investigators employed by special counsel Jack Smith are reportedly working feverishly on pulling together a case for indicting Donald Trump of criminal wire fraud.

According to the Times, "Led by the special counsel Jack Smith, prosecutors are trying to determine whether Mr. Trump and his aides violated federal wire fraud statutes as they raised as much as $250 million through a political action committee by saying they needed the money to fight to reverse election fraud even though they had been told repeatedly that there was no evidence to back up those fraud claims."

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani suggested that Donald Trump may be unable to complete a second term as president because of his age.

During his Sunday WABC radio program, Giuliani was asked if Trump should pick Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for vice president if he wins the Republican primary. The former mayor acknowledged that the ticket would be difficult because the U.S. Constitution requires running mates to reside in separate states.

During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" to praise House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for getting his budget proposal passed by a very slim margin, a member of his caucus was confronted by host Dana Bash about how the proposal will hurt his own constituents.

Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) was on to make the case that it is up to President Joe Biden to meet with McCarthy to resolve their differences which led the CNN host to dig into the details of how the proposed budget will impact the state he represents.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show" a former prosecutor claimed Donald Trump's lawyers have inadvertently tipped off special counsel Jack Smith to their defense strategy should charges be filed over the stolen documents recovered by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.

Reacting to a report that Trump attorneys sent a letter to House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) asking the GOP-led House take over the federal investigation into the document, Charles Coleman Jr. noted the letter included how they view their client's innocence which would give Smith's office a heads-up of how to present their case.

Reacting to a New York Times report that investigators working for special counsel Jack Smith are focusing on evidence of wire fraud related to Donald Trump's 2020 presidential election loss, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner suggested a conspiracy indictment might be forthcoming that encompasses those charges.

Speaking with MSNBC's "The Saturday Show" host Jonathan Capehart, the former prosecutor claimed such charges were hinted at by a California judge last year.

The U.S. Dept. of Justice’s Special Counsel Jack Smith issued a subpoena to the second company the Trump campaign hired to investigate claims of voter fraud.

“There was no fraud,” Ken Block, the founder of Simpatico Software Systems told ABC News in a report published Friday.