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Former President Donald Trump blasted his MAGA base with a cash demand just moments after a D.C. appellate court slapped down his presidential immunity claim.

Trump’s all-caps message hurls accusations against the Justice Department, the Biden administration and the federal court system, all of which he claims have united in a massive witch hunt to undermine his 2024 presidential campaign.

Judge Aileen Cannon gave Donald Trump's defense another win by blowing off concerns by the Department of Justice in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

Special counsel Jack Smith's team met last week with the U.S. District Court judge to explain why some portions of their legal filings must be shielded from Trump's lawyers, but Cannon dismissed their concerns about doing harm to classified witnesses, disclosing an FBI code name for a separate investigation, and revealing uncharged conduct by one or more individuals.

The unanimous, long-awaited ruling by a three-judge federal appeals court panel finding Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution is so strong that the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to decline to hear any appeal made by attorneys for the ex-president, legal experts say.

Trump had claimed he has "total immunity" from prosecution for any actions he took while president, an argument so extreme his attorneys were forced to tell a judge that even if, while President, Trump hypothetically had ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival, he could not be prosecuted unless impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate first.

Donald Trump’s courtroom dramatics aren’t going to fly in a criminal courtroom in Washington D.C. after his presidential immunity defense was overwhelmingly shot down down by the district’s appellate court, a CNN legal analyst said Tuesday.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig issued his warning to the former president on the heels of breaking news that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously voted to slap down his primary defense in his criminal case linked to the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.

Special counsel Jack Smith reportedly wants to expedite Donald Trump's appeals after a panel of judges ruled that he does not have immunity from prosecution.

In a 3-0 ruling on Tuesday, a federal appeals court said Trump could be prosecuted for election subversion crimes related to Jan. 6, 2021.

Two legal experts this week said that actions by special counsel Jack Smith's office have exposed the incompetence of one of the lawyers representing a Trump codefendant in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

At one point, the attorney representing co-defendant Carlos de Oliveira confessed that, over the course of the past several months, he's had serious trouble viewing the exhibits, including the videos from Mar-a-Lago's security cameras, because he doesn't own a computer.

A new document from special counsel Jack Smith's legal team shows one of former President Donald Trump's lawyers once claimed he didn't own a computer, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan said.

Swan appeared on MSNBC Monday to discuss the Friday filing in Smith's confidential documents case filed against Trump in Florida's federal court.

Special counsel Jack Smith is going further than he has before in accusing former President Donald Trump and his attorneys of being "conspiracy theorists" in their arguments against the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan told MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Monday.

This comes as Smith is attempting to stave off a sweeping discovery request in that case that goes far beyond what an ordinary criminal defendant would, asking for huge troves of federal communications in search of evidence that the charges for stealing and hoarding national defense information were fabricated.

Special counsel Jack Smith is fighting in secret meetings to set the classified record straight, but one lingering question remains when it comes to Judge Aileen Cannon.

“Will she care?”

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday scheduled two sealed hearings to speak separately with Donald Trump's attorneys and special counsel Jack Smith.

In a two-page order, the Trump-appointed judge said she followed the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) in sealing the ex parte hearings. Both hearings will take place Monday, Feb. 12.