Jack Smith

In a post to X Friday, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lashed out at some of her fellow Republicans, saying that it's "nauseating" to watch them vie for Donald Trump's support.

Greene specifically targeted Montana GOP Rep. Matt Rosendale, who is rumored to launch a 2024 Senate run.

The Supreme Court has declined to take up an expedited review of former President Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity from the 2020 federal election interference case, reported The New York Times on Friday — a loss for special counsel Jack Smith, who had urged them to take up the case and bypass the appellate court.

"A speedy decision by the justices was of the essence, Mr. Smith wrote, because Mr. Trump’s appeal of a trial judge’s ruling rejecting his claim of immunity suspends the criminal trial. The proceeding was scheduled to begin on March 4 in Federal District Court in Washington," reported the Times.

Appearing on MSNBC on Friday morning, conservative political analyst Susan Del Percio said the newly unearthed recording of a phone call to Michigan election officials from Donald Trump and Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel will likely come back to haunt McDaniel if she is called as a witness by special counsel Jack Smith, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel or Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

In the call in which the former president implores Michigan officials Monica Palmer and William Hartmann not to sign the election document certifying the result, the RNC head is heard chiming in with, "If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. ... We will get you attorneys."

The new recording of Donald Trump apparently pressuring Michigan canvassers not to certify the state’s 2020 election result is bombshell evidence that Jack Smith will waste no time grabbing, CNN legal expert Elie Honig said Friday.

“If prosecutors have not already done this, I assure you they’re knocking out subpoenas right now,” he said.

A newly unearthed phone call that Donald Trump made to Michigan officials in an attempt to get them to refuse to certify the 2020 presidential election is causing no small amount of grief within the former president's inner circle because they have a new fire to put out.

Late Thursday the Detroit News reported it had obtained a recording of the call where Trump and RNC head Ronna McDaniel proposed undermining the election results with McDaniel suggesting they would supply lawyers if needed.

Donald Trump made a "staggering" admission of wrongdoing with a seemingly throwaway comment made on the bombshell recording of a call in which he apparently pressures Michigan canvassers to not certify the results of the 2020 election, a CNN analyst said Friday.

Reporter Marshall Cohen highlighted a section of the recording, unearthed Thursday in a Detroit News report, in which Trump and Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel are heard telling canvassers not to sign the certification of Michigan’s election result.

Detroit News reporter Craig Mauger appeared on CNN Friday to spill more details about his bombshell report about a recording of former President Donald Trump pressuring canvassers in Michigan to not certify the results of the 2020 election.

When asked by CNN's Poppy Harlow if Mauger would release audio of the call, where Trump told the canvassers that he would hook them up with lawyers if they refused to certify the results, the reporter replied that it was out of his hands.

The newly unearthed recording of former President Donald Trump pressuring officials in Michigan to not certify the results of the 2020 presidential election could provide more fodder for special counsel Jack Smith in his election subversion case, argued a CNN legal analyst on Friday.

The recording in question showed Trump telling two Michigan canvassers to refuse to sign off on their state's election results, while promising to hire lawyers to them if they complied.

In a Thursday, December 21 report from Politico Global Editor-in-Chief John F. Harris and senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein, the pair highlight the fact that the two lingering Donald Trump cases going into 2024 place a spotlight on US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' leadership.

During his almost two decades as chief justice, Harris and Gerstein note that "it's become steadily more common to believe that the institution Roberts leads is fundamentally not on the level." Meaning, it's not "committed to interpreting and applying the law in a principled and dispassionate way."