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'A tour de force': Experts reveal Jack Smith's 'sly' additions to new Trump filing

Special Counsel Jack Smith's team didn't pull any punches in its new filing contesting Donald Trump's claims of absolute presidential immunity in the former president's D.C. election subversion case, numerous legal experts said on Saturday.

Smith's motion, which former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance said could force Trump to move more quickly when it comes to his Supreme Court immunity appeal, argued that the ex-president was "wrong" to say his acts were within the parameters of his presidential duties.

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Jack Smith's newest filing could 'force Trump to act quickly' on immunity appeal: expert

Jack Smith on Saturday urged an appeals court to act quickly in deciding whether or not Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution in his D.C. election subversion case, a move one legal expert said could force the former president's hand to act more quickly.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance appeared on MSNBC's American Voices with Alicia Menendez on Saturday, where she was asked about Smith's appellate filing on the question of presidential immunity. Smith's motion says Trump is "wrong" in his arguments in favor of immunity, and suggests finding the opposite would put former presidents above the law.

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Trump lawyer tells CNN which criminal case is 'the biggest threat' to ex-president

Donald Trump's former lawyer Tim Parlatore told CNN on Saturday that the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case represents "the biggest threat" to the former president.

Parlatore, who worked on the documents case and now continues to represent those in Trump's orbit, appeared on CNN's Newsroom with Jim Acosta, where he was asked about the network's recent reporting on the Trump team's efforts to get "fake elector" documents to D.C. Parlatore said that, while everybody he has represented and every witness that he has talked to through his time working for Trump said the elector plot was "just push for a delay," new evidence suggests things went deeper than that.

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'He is wrong': Jack Smith destroys Trump's immunity arguments in new filing

Special Counsel Jack Smith on Saturday filed his brief debunking Donald Trump's arguments related to presidential immunity from criminal charges while he was in office, stating simply, "He is wrong."

The former president appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after Judge Chutkan ruled that to grant him immunity from charges related to alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election would effectively make the ex-president a "king." Smith sought to expedite the conclusion by leapfrogging straight to the Supreme Court, but the nation's top judicial body rejected that request and insisted in seeing a traditional appellate review.

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'Rattled' Trump publicly showing signs 'he's becoming even more unhinged': MSNBC host

Reacting to Donald Trump's continuous late-night tirades on Truth Social, as well as his ugly "Rot in hell" attack on special counsel Jack Smith on Christmas day, MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton said the ex-president's legal problems are getting to him.

Speaking with fellow MSNBC host Alex Witt on Saturday, Sharpton pointed out Trump shows all the signs of being "rattled" as of late.

With Witt pointing out that Sharpton has known Trump for years, she asked, "Rev, what do you make of all of this?"

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"I think Donald Trump is more rattled than people think about the 91 felonies he is facing, the four cases, and civil suit," Sharpton began. "I think that he is showing publicly now that he is becoming even more unhinged, even though many of us didn't think it was possible."

"Because how do you randomly just do all of that," he continued, "unless there is some deep-seated middle-of-the-night anxiety that he is trying to act like a tough guy but he really has concerns?"

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Judge Chutkan has the law on her side to slap down Trump's 'political argument': expert

Donald Trump's drive to round up as many GOP delegates as part of a legal strategy in his battle with U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan is unlikely to persuade her to go easy on him.

That is the opinion of a former prosecutor when asked if Trump is a guaranteed lock for the 2024 presidential nomination would that bolster his argument that his prosecution is politically motivated.

According to a report from the Messenger's Marc Caputo, the former president is frantically trying to add to his committed delegate total before his Washington, D.C., trial over alleged 2020 election interference begins as part of a wide-ranging defense strategy.

While special counsel Jack Smith is endeavoring to keep the former president and his legal team from pushing election interference conspiracies before the jury, Trump reportedly believes it will help him in the court of public opinion.

Caputo is reporting one Trump insider explaining, “The closer to the election this gets, the more pressure there is and the more people will see the politics. Judge Chutkan said she doesn’t care about Trump’s status as a candidate. This hasn’t worked. But if that trial date moves, will she be so steadfast in pursuit of a verdict and ignore the reality of an impending election? What does Jack Smith do?”

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'That's a political argument': CNN host shuts down ex-Trump adviser on ballot questions

Blame James Madison.

President Donald Trump's former aide David Urban and deputy assistant attorney general Elliott Williams clashed on CNN over the basis as to why states have disqualified Trump and stricken his name from the ballot.

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'Trump has learned just how much his lawyers spilled': Expert breaks down new court filing

Donald Trump late Friday night slammed Special Counsel Jack Smith in a new court filing, saying the prosecutor's "demanded deadlines" are "detached from reality."

Specifically, Trump's attorneys filed an opposition to Smith's request that the court force Trump to make it known whether he plans to utilize an advice-of-counsel defense in the Mar-a-Lago case involving classified documents. Legal experts say the special counsel hopes to make Trump answer the question, a move many said was an attempt to obtain key attorney communications that would otherwise be covered by attorney-client privilege.

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'Born for the moment': Columnist says Fani Willis' experience preps her to take down Trump

Special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the two prosecutors who've charged former President Donald Trump with attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, are the perfect people for the job, according to Washington Monthly columnist Margaret Carlson.

Carlson appeared on Ari Melber's MSNBC show Thursday to discuss the two pivotal court cases moving through federal courts in Washington D.C. and state court in Georgia.

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George Conway and ex-Trump lawyer Ty Cobb join Jack Smith in arguing against immunity

George Conway, a conservative attorney, and Donald Trump's former lawyer, Ty Cobb, threw their support behind Special Counsel Jack Smith Friday with a new filing slamming the former president's immunity defense, court records show.

Conway, a vocal critic of the former president, and Cobb are among 16 former prosecutors, government officials, and constitutional attorneys who added their names to an Amicus Brief filed in the D.C. Circuit's Court of Appeals.

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Jack Smith has 'powerful' new evidence proving intent in Jan. 6 case: legal experts

Newly revealed recordings of right-wing attorney Kenneth Chesebro describing the last-minute scramble to block certification of President Joe Biden's election win provides special counsel Jack Smith with powerful new evidence.

The recordings made by Georgia prosecutors and obtained by CNN provide new details into the scheme to get fake elector certificates from two key battleground states to Washington, D.C., just two days before Jan. 6, 2021, and Salon reported on commentary by legal experts explaining the significance of this new evidence.

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Trump attorney has given Jack Smith case new 'meat on the bones': ex-prosecutor

As part of his plea deal with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, former Donald Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro must come clean about his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results — including the fake electors scheme.

According to CNN, a newly released batch of leaked recordings shows the extremes that Trump went to in order to get fake Electoral College documents to Washington, D.C. before Congress' certification of the electoral vote count on January 6, 2021 — with Chesebro sharing details including a plot to fly fake ballots to D.C.

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Appeals court has signaled it will approve of jailing 'petulant child' Trump: analyst

Donald Trump's relentless attacks on special counsel Jack Smith — including wishing that he "rot in Hell" in a Christmas message — along with other courthouse personnel could finally push Judge Tanya Chutkan to the point where she may have no choice but to do what was thought to be unthinkable.

As the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery is reporting, the former president is all but ignoring the gag order imposed on him by the D.C. judge overseeing his election subversion case, and one defense lawyer from Texas suggested Chutkan is poised to "blow everyone’s mind" and send the former president to jail if he keeps it up.

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