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For months, President Joe Biden's reelection campaign was way ahead of presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in terms of fundraising. But Trump enjoyed a major fundraising surge after a Manhattan jury found him guilty on 34 criminal charges in his hush money trial.

According to Politico's Adam Wren, however, that post-verdict fundraising surge doesn't erase other problems the GOP is dealing with this election year.

The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case has taken her delay dalliances so far as to put American lives at risk, according to a seething new editorial.

Salon editor Charles R. Davis on Monday slammed Judge Aileen Cannon's delays in considering special counsel Jack Smith plea to tighten restrictions on Trump's dangerous rhetoric, which has seen law enforcement face threats of family slaughter, as she ponders the former president's ravings about assassination plots, shadow governments and deep state henchmen.

The U.S. Supreme Court still hasn't issued a ruling in the Donald Trump immunity case, which has essentially handed a legal win to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, according to a Washington Post columnist.

Trump's strategy in all four of his criminal prosecutions has been to delay the proceedings past the election in hopes that he could shut them down if he wins, and the top court has already jeopardized the start of a trial in the federal election interference case by waiting so long to issue a decision on his claims of broad immunity, wrote Jennifer Rubin.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, an exasperated former SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief Kristy Greenberg ripped into U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon for holding a hearing on Friday to hear arguments about dismissing special counsel Jack Smith.

Speaking with the hosts of "The Weekend," Greenberg compared the hearing to a useless office meeting where participants eventually complain: "Why are we here?"

With "Weekend" co-host Alicia Menedez prompting her by asking, "Kristy you described the meeting as a meeting that could've been an email," the former prosecutor turned MSNBC legal analyst made the meeting comparison and then added, "This could have easily been resolved with an order. The question is basic: did Merrick Garland have the authority to appoint a special counsel? The answer is clearly, yes."

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"The statutory authority gives them the right to do so , the Supreme Court has said so," she stated before elaborating. "It's a deeply rooted tradition to have these outside counsel come in and conduct an investigation. Who said that? [Supreme Court justice] Brett Kavanagh."

"So even a baby judge who is new to this, knows they've got to follow the Supreme Court," she continued. "I come back to like what is actually going on here; we've had about a year of Judge Cannon and seeing what she's up to and it seems like she has a playbook. The first is distract, take these very simple legal issues and make them seem really complicated, so we are not talking about Donald Trump willfully retaining classified documents, Step two is to use these complications, use the supposed complications to delay."

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