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Trump attacks prosecutors and judges on Thanksgiving: 'Give me freedom or give me death'

The former leader of the free world lashed out on Thursday at one of the prosecutors investigating alleged misconduct.

"The Manhattan D.A. Case should never have been brought," Trump posted to his Truth Social website.

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Trump poised for a 'miserable Thanksgiving' as legal headaches pile up: reporter

Former President Donald Trump's legal prospects are likely giving him a "miserable Thanksgiving," according to Newsweek reporter Ewan Palmer.

Specifically, Palmer points to several problems piling up for the former president, including his hand-picked candidates getting stomped in this month's midterm elections and his well documented legal troubles.

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'Practical Republicans' in Arizona sank Kari Lake because 'they want government to work': expert

A new report from the Arizona Republic sheds more light on the coalition of voters who sank Trump-backed Kari Lake's hope of becoming Arizona's next governor.

Essentially, the newspaper found that a significant number of Republican voters in the state crossed over to back Democrat Katie Hobbs in this year's elections, and they also helped put nails in the coffins of fellow MAGA candidates Blake Masters and Mark Finchem.

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Democratic operatives team up to defend Biden from ‘bogus’ House GOP investigations

Democrats are putting together a network of outside groups to respond to looming investigations of President Joe Biden, his family and his administration by the incoming House Republican majority.

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Jim Jordan, who is likely to become chairman of the Judiciary Committee, have already promised investigations of Biden and various cabinet agencies, including the Justice Department, to "frame" the 2024 election campaign, and Democratic groups are preparing to fight back, reported NBC News.

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Trump 'will be in trouble' if 'pit bull' Jack Smith decides he's committed crimes: experts

Former President Donald Trump is already attacking special prosecutor Jack Smith by reviving the same playbook he employed against former special counsel Robert Mueller, but a new report from Axios expresses doubt that this tactic will prove successful.

Among other things, the report notes that Trump is now a private citizen who no longer enjoys the protections offered by the presidency against facing a criminal indictment while in office.

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Trumpster Kash Patel sells Christmas-themed camo hoodies to raise cash

It is not even Thanksgiving yet, but a former Trump administration official is hawking Christmas camouflage hoodies to benefit the "Kash Patel Legal Offense Trust."

On Trump's Truth Social microblogging website, Patel posted a link to his "Fight with Kash" to the $65.00 hoodies, which can also be purchased for four installments of $16.25.

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Justice Dept seeks to question Pence in Capitol attack probe

Former vice president Mike Pence is reportedly considering a Justice Department request to testify in its January 6 probe

Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department is seeking to question former vice president Mike Pence about Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, media reports said Wednesday.

The New York Times and other outlets said that Pence was considering the request to appear as a witness in the department's criminal investigation into the actions of the former president.

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Justice Department wants to speak to Mike Pence about Jan. 6

Former Vice President Mike Pence has not yet been subpoenaed, but the Justice Department has reached out to his representatives to ask that he speak to them about his Jan. 6 experience, the New York Times reported.

Pence has published a book that gave little information about what he observed other than the admission that Donald Trump's lawyers made it clear that what he was doing wouldn't be upheld by the Supreme Court. He then later blame "bad advice from lawyers" for Trump's behavior.

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‘Maelstrom of legal trouble’: Trump dealt ‘setback after setback’ in one ‘very bad day’

Donald Trump suffered a series of courtroom defeats in one "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day" that will expose him to a new level of legal liability on a variety of fronts, and an investigative reporter compared his predicament to Bill Cosby's downfall.

The former president was dealt losses in courts across the country that could result in the exposure of his tax records, the dismantling of his family business, a civil trial for rape, and bearing the full weight of the Department of Justice, reported The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery.

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Eric Trump follows his dad with attack on special counsel’s wife

MAGA Republicans are heightening their attacks on special counsel Jack Smith by going after his family.

On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump went after Smith's family on his Truth Social website.

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Trump wages war against family of special counsel

Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked the family of the special counsel appointed to investigate the government documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago, attempted insurrection, and obstruction of Justice.

"This is just a small amount of information from the wife of the hard-line radical left special counsel (prosecutor), an acolyte of Eric Holder and Barack Hussein Obama," Trump posted on his Truth Social website.

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Investigation into Trump for Mar-a-Lago docs likely to 'speed up' with new special counsel: Andrew Weissmann

Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor under special counsel Robert Mueller, predicted that an indictment of former President Donald Trump will likely come relatively soon for his decision to stash top-secret government documents at Mar-a-Lago.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, Weissmann predicted that things are going to start speeding up after the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel.

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Priest who had threesome with dominatrixes on church altar pleads guilty to felony obscenity

A former Louisiana Catholic priest has pled guilty to a felony charge of obscenity after he video recorded a threesome with two alleged dominatrixes on a church altar, Nola.com reports.

Travis Clark was handed a three-year suspended prison sentence along with three years of supervised probation and a $1,000 fine.

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