Jack Smith

Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed a broad array of people at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort as part of the investigation into Trump's mishandling of classified information.

Some of these new subpoenas are highly significant, argued former Pentagon special counsel Ryan Goodman on Thursday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," because they involve people whom Trump may never have even noticed were seeing his activity.

Donald Trump on Thursday announced plans to avert World War III, but the former president went off script to launch attacks on neocons and Marxists, among others.

“We have never been closer to World War III than we are today under Joe Biden, a global conflict between nuclear armed powers would mean death and destruction on the scale unmatched in human history. It would be nuclear Armageddon,” the former president said in a video he posted on his Truth Social website.

Former President Donald Trump's spokesman released a statement on Thursday evening attacking Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg amid reports that he is likely to indict the former president soon.

"President Donald J. Trump is completely innocent, he did nothing wrong, and even the biggest, most Radical Left Democrats are making that clear," wrote Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung. "From Russia, Russia, Russia, to the Mueller Hoax, to Impeachment Hoaxes 1 and 2, and even the Unlawful Mar-a-Lago Raid, Democrats have investigated and attacked President Trump since before he was elected – and they’ve failed every time. Now Democrats are at it again, pushing the 'Nuclear Button' and attacking a President because of a disgraced extortionist. This is happening because President Trump is leading in the polls by a large margin against both Democrats and Republicans, and there’s never been anything so blatant in American political history."

Officer Harry Dunn was one of the Capitol Police officers that led Jan. 6 attackers away from the doors where lawmakers were hiding. It has been 800 days since then and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace wants to know why the Justice Department hasn't moved against Donald Trump or his close allies.

Speaking with her was former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who remarked that conservatives love to talk about how they "back the blue" but when it comes to Jan. 6, they couldn't possibly care less. He recalled the officers that lay in hospital beds after Jan. 6, noting that there are "gruesome photos of stitches and bruises and swollen limbs where they've been sprayed with bear spray and everything else."

Justice Department special prosecutor Jack Smith has issued subpoenas to at least two dozen people working at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club in South Florida — including waitstaff, reported CNN on Thursday.

"On Thursday, Trump’s communications aide Margo Martin, who worked in the White House and then moved with Trump to Florida, appeared before the grand jury in Washington, DC. One of special counsel Jack Smith’s senior-most prosecutors was involved in the interview," reported Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid, Kristen Holmes, and Casey Gannon. "Martin, who is among a small group of former White House advisers who have remained employed by Trump after he left office, declined to answer any questions when approached by a CNN reporter."

An attorney for former President Donald Trump is in the crosshairs of special counsel Jack Smith in the classified documents investigation, ABC News reported on Thursday.

Evan Corcoran’s testimony is sought in connection with a phone call prosecutors allege he had with Trump as investigators were seeking evidence over possible obstruction of the government’s efforts to secure classified documents the former president took with him when he left the White House, sources told the news outlet.

Former President Donald Trump's legal fate in a pair of federal investigations against him could turn on a federal judge who was newly named to the chief of the D.C. District Court, CNN reported on Thursday.

"Chief Judge Beryl Howell, who has served in that role since 2016, has repeatedly green-lit Justice Department requests to pursue information about Trump’s actions, from his top advisers and lawyers and even inside the White House," reported Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed. "She’ll be succeeded by James 'Jeb' Boasberg, a fellow Barack Obama appointee and one-time Brett Kavanaugh law school roommate who’s well-known in Washington."

The Guardian reported Wednesday morning that Donald Trump accepted $8 million in capital from an obscure Russian source.

Federal prosecutors investigating Truth Social in New York probed whether money laundering was happening through the company.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) testified to an Atlanta special grand jury that former President Donald Trump was in a panicked, suggestible state of mind over his election loss, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday — to the point where he would have believed any conspiracy theory imaginable.

"One grand juror recalled U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s testimony about Trump’s state of mind in the months after the 2020 election," reported Tamar Hallerman and Bill Rankin. "'He said that during that time, if somebody had told Trump that aliens came down and stole Trump ballots, that Trump would’ve believed it,' the juror said."

Former President Donald Trump is in grave legal jeopardy as the Manhattan District Attorney appears close to pursuing an indictment over his illicit hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

But according to conservative attorney George Conway on CNN's "OutFront," he really should face federal charges too, with the payment being treated like an illegal campaign finance donation to himself since the transaction killed the release of a story that could have damaged his 2016 campaign.

On one hand, former Vice President Mike Pence is trying to get out of complying with a subpoena from special counsel Jack Smith to give grand jury testimony on the January 6 attack. But on the other hand, Pence made waves at the Gridiron journalists' dinner over the weekend by rebuking both former President Donald Trump and Fox News personality Tucker Carlson for their own roles in fomenting the insurrection.

Speaking on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Monday, former FBI counterintelligence official Frank Figliuzzi connected these two things — and outlined what they say about how much information Pence could ultimately be forced to give.

On the same day that former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen is slated to testify before a Manhattan grand jury about the ex-president reportedly paying an adult film star hush money after an alleged affair, Trump will be jetting off to Iowa to boost his chances of winning a third Republican Party presidential nomination.

According to a report from the Associated Press, the stakes could not be higher for Trump who can't risk losing the state where he was defeated in the 2016 primary due to a disorganized state campaign apparatus.