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Trump could face more FBI raids as witness suggests documents still hidden: ex-prosecutor

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani is warning there might be more classified documents in Donald Trump's possession — and another FBI raid might be on the horizon, Newsweek reported.

Among the revelations in the stolen document case is that Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler, in an interview with CNN, said he helped Trump aide Walt Nauta deliver boxes of the documents to a plane "in June 2022 — the same day that Trump and his attorney were meeting with the Justice Department at Mar-a-Lago about the classified documents."

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Biden scrambles to nix Trump's power to enact revenge 'master plan' if elected

The Biden administration is scrambling to put in last-minute protections for federal workers as Donald Trump has publicly vowed a revenge vendetta if he's elected.

A new rule introduced Thursday aims to stop civil service protections from being eliminated if positions are turned into an exempt category by presidents such as Trump, who says he plans to disrupt the "deep state" by targeting career government workers if he becomes president again.

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Trump demands 'lowlife' Jack Smith be 'censured' for putting Judge Cannon on the spot

A federal filing by special counsel Jack Smith that put Judge Aileen Cannon on the spot over her widely criticized proposed jury instructions has infuriated Donald Trump, who subsequently lashed out on Thursday morning.

The Trump-appointed judge had asked both parties in the Mar-a-Lago documents case for proposed jury instructions which led to Smith delivering what observers have called a "withering response" with the implicit threat that he may seek relief from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

In the filing, Smith's office maintained Cannon would be “asking the jury to make a factual finding with no proper legal connection” to the case, adding that an alternative, “would amount to nothing more than a recitation of Trump’s PRA defense” which “would result in directing a verdict against the Government.”

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The former president came to Cannon's defense, and labeled Smith a "lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to 'play the ref.'"

According to the former president, "Deranged 'Special' Counsel Jack Smith, who has a long record of failure as a prosecutor, including a unanimous decision against him in the U.S. Supreme Court, should be sanctioned or censured for the way he is attacking a highly respected Judge, Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over his FAKE Documents Hoax case in Florida."

"He is a lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to 'play the ref,'" he accused before adding, "He shouldn’t even be allowed to participate in this sham case, where I, unlike Crooked Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and all the rest, come under the Presidential Records Act."

Switching to all-caps, he revisited his usual grievances, writing, "I DID NOTHING WRONG, BUT BIDEN DID, AND THEY LET HIM OFF SCOT-FREE. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN, JACK? A TWO TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!"

'Really smart' Jack Smith filing is 'baiting' Aileen Cannon into making a critical mistake

CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams argued on Thursday that special counsel Jack Smith had painted Judge Aileen Cannon into a corner by forcing her to make an appealable ruling about proposed jury instructions before actually empaneling a jury in the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents trial.

Williams' remarks came in reaction to former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb arguing that Cannon had done enough to justify getting removed from the case all together given her rulings that critics have repeatedly called overly deferential to the former president.

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'Cowardice' or 'personal meltdown'? CNN panel speculates on Aileen Cannon's state of mind

A CNN panel on Thursday appeared baffled by Judge Aileen Cannon's actions in the Trump classified documents trial and speculated about the motives for her rulings.

After briefly discussing Cannon's widely criticized proposed jury instructions, in which jurors would be asked to consider whether top-secret government documents could be deemed Trump's personal property, Republican consultant Shermichael Singleton couldn't help but acknowledge that her decisions seem wildly favorable to the former president.

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Why Trump still has a ‘Nikki Haley’ problem at the ballot box

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the presumptive nominees of their parties, but unlike Democratic primary voters, Republican primary voters don't seem to have gotten the message.

Comparing the percentage of the each party's vote in primary states so far, Joe Biden is frequently beating Donald Trump. The results show a pattern that could signal trouble for the ex-president. Trump's problem isn't Nikki Haley per se, it's that in some states there appears to be a Republican enthusiasm gap for Trump, and GOP voters may be voting for Haley to send a message.

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Jack Smith called Aileen Cannon's bluff as 'the clock is ticking': legal analyst

The judge in Donald Trump's classified documents case is trying to "insulate" the former president — and Special Counsel Jack Smith is calling her bluff, according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.

Vance lasered in on the legal tit-for-tat between U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon and Smith over the proposed jury instructions that Cannon floated in which jurors would be asked to consider whether the top-secret government documents that Trump took from the White House, which included secrets about nuclear weapons programs, could be considered his personal property.

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Judge Cannon plans more 'mischief' in Trump case if Jack Smith doesn't stop her: expert

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman used his Wednesday evening appearance on MSNBC to lay into right-wing Judge Aileen Cannon's latest behavior in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case — and explain how special counsel Jack Smith, too, has grown fed up.

Cannon, who has intervened in the case in former President Donald Trump's favor multiple times and is herself a Trump appointee, has moved to propose the jury consider Trump's baseless claims to be shielded from prosecution for hoarding classified documents by the Presidential Records Act — while refusing to resolve the issue herself, in a way that could let her shut down the whole trial later. Smith has responded with a not-so-subtle threat to go over her head to the 11th Circuit and ask that they intervene.

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Trump White House lawyer flags what's 'remarkable' about Judge Cannon's 'stunning' actions

The presiding judge in Donald Trump's classified documents criminal case in Florida may soon be yanked from the bench after her most recent move perceived as slow-walking it to trial.

Former President Donald Trump's old White House lawyer Ty Cobb ripped what he claimed are missteps by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, that stem from her blatant "bias."

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'Massive deal for November': Trump behind push to change how key election state votes

Nebraska's Republican governor has joined Donald Trump in endorsing an effort to change how the state awards its Electoral College votes -- and the potential result could be a boon to the former president come November.

As HuffPost points out, Nebraska and Maine are the only states that split their Electoral College votes based on the popular vote statewide and in U.S. House districts -- which allowed President Joe Biden to win a single delegate after carrying Nebraska’s Second Congressional District.

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Legal analyst finds something that 'caught my eye' in latest Trump criminal ruling

The new ruling by Judge Juan Merchan, who denied Trump's claim of presidential immunity, was specific.

Lawfare's legal fellow and courts correspondent Anna Bower pointed to part of the ruling in which Merchan explains that Trump had ample opportunity to bring up the idea of presidential immunity as a defense earlier and chose not to. In fact, Trump could have brought up the matter when his lawyers briefed the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals about the presidential immunity claim in the case around the federal election.

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'Clown': Trump supporters melt down after judge tells ex-president he can't claim immunity

Former President Donald Trump's supporters and allies went berserk after Judge Juan Merchan ruled the former president can't assert presidential immunity in his Manhattan hush money criminal case, which is scheduled to start later this month.

Aside from the fact that the alleged offenses happened before he even became president, Merchan found Trump had exhausted the window of time when he could even raise such objections. This comes as Trump has launched a volley of attacks against Merchan and his family.

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'Sanity prevails': Hush money judge heaped with praise for tossing Trump immunity argument

Judge Juan Merchan was heaped with praise after he slapped down former President Donald Trump's presidential immunity plea claim in his criminal hush money case.

Merchan's ruling Wednesday denies Trump's request to delay the New York City criminal trial until after the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity argument in special counsel Jack Smith's federal election interference case, a request that baffled George Conway.

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