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In an attempt to put more distance between himself and Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence is expected to give a speech this weekend that could put the former president on the spot with some of his most ardent supporters.

Pence is slated to speak to the NRA's annual conference this weekend where, according to Politico, he will move to Trump's right on guns at a time when the issue of mass shootings is dominating the headlines once again.

Donald Trump is facing a mountain of legal trouble, and the former president has nobody to blame for it but himself, former Attorney General Bill Barr said Thursday.

Barr, during an appearance on CNN Primetime, told host Kaitlan Collins that he attributes some of the legal hurt Trump is experiencing to overzealous prosecutors, “but that doesn't mean everything that Trump does, he's a victim.”

New reporting this week indicates that Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith is zeroing in on the possibility of charging Trump's fundraising around "election defense" as wire fraud, on the premise that he and his allies knew his conspiracy theories about the presidential election of 2020 to be false and no such defense fund was ever created, despite millions being raised for it.

On MSNBC Thursday, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance outlined a key step Smith appears to be taking to build that case.

Former president Trump's prior acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, has reportedly testified before a grand jury that is investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents at his Florida Mar-a-Lago golf resort.

Grenell was identified by CNN as he was leaving the Washington, D.C., courthouse. About a year ago, Grenell was accused of having Nazi ties by a U.S. congressman when Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Grenell "used to hang out with Nazis when he was supposed to be representing us in Germany."

Special Counsel Jack Smith is bringing in more of those linked to Donald Trump's campaign and White House to give details about the actions around Jan. 6 and the attempt to overturn the election.

Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security, pointed to then-Director of National Intelligence John Radcliffe and what he was briefing Donald Trump about during the events leading up to Jan. 6.

Former President Donald Trump released a new video statement on Thursday threatened to unleash a torrent of misery against the American legal apparatus, local prosecutors, Jewish philanthropist George Soros, the United States Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the multiple probes into his alleged criminal activities escalate.

Trump's taunts have escalated in the weeks since Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a thirty-four-count felony indictment against him for the falsification of business records stemming from his hush money payoffs to adult film star Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal prior to the 2016 presidential election.

No presidential candidate in U.S. history has had more legal problems than Donald Trump. The former president and 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner is not only facing a 34-count criminal prosecution from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr., but also, two federal criminal investigations from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and special counsel Jack Smith and a state criminal investigation from Fulton County Georgia DA Fani Willis. And Trump has civil worries as well.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James has been conducting a civil probe of the Trump Organization's financial activities, and journalist/author E. Jean Carroll (a former Elle columnist) has filed two separate civil defamation lawsuits against Trump — who she alleges sexually assaulted her in Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman's dressing room during the 1990s. Trump and his attorneys have vehemently denied Carroll's allegations.

Surveying the minefield of criminal investigations Donald Trump is currently facing, attorney George Conway suggested that the former president's attempts to hide the documents he took with him to his Mar-a-Lago estate could be the one that actually lands him in jail.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Conway was asked about a report that special counsel Jack Smith is now looking into the former president's fundraising off of his 2020 election loss, with the attorney saying there is a real possibility that could lead to mail and wire fraud charges.

Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith is now partially treating the January 6 probe as a wire fraud investigation, with a focus on whether former President Donald Trump and his allies committed a crime by using lies about the election being stolen to raise money for a cause they knew was illegitimate, according to new reporting by The Washington Post.

Reporter Devlin Barrett elaborated on the implications of this move on CNN Thursday evening.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of Donald Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is now probing the former president’s fundraising in the aftermath of the 2020 election, The Washington Post reports.

Investigators are looking into whether Trump or his staff tried to fleece contributors over claims of election fraud the former president knew to be false, and in recent weeks Smith’s office has sent subpoenas to Trump advisors and former campaign staffers in connection with the probe, eight people with knowledge of the investigation told The Post.

Just as other participants in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are being sentenced, authorities have arrested another.

Rockne Earles, of New Mexico, was arrested on Tuesday on felony charges for his role in disrupting the congressional session meant to count the electoral votes for the 2020 presidential election, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.

A little over a week ago, The New York Times reported that among the things former President Donald Trump was doing with the documents he took from the White House was showing them off to people visiting him at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump was already in hot water for having the documents and spending a year refusing to give them back. What this adds to the piece of the story, reporter Michael Schmidt explained, is another piece of Trump's "intent."

A man described as Donald Trump's "most loyal aide" has been interviewed by special counsel Jack Smith's team in preparation for an obstruction of justice case against the former president.

According to The New York Times, longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta agreed to an interview after classified government documents were recovered from Mar-a-Lago. The documents were said to have included a sensitive map.