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Should Donald Trump decide to take the stand in the federal trial where he faces charges of voting obstruction, he may see his previous testimony impeached by new comments he made about Jan. 6.

Reacting to boasts made by the former president to ABC's Jonathan Karl in a newly released audio tape, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin stated Trump not only confirmed testimony former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson made to a House select committee, but he's also set himself up to have his words thrown back in his face on the stand.

Reacting to a newly released recording of Donald Trump's interactions with his Secret Service detail as supporters of the former president stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, a former federal prosecutor said it could be entered into evidence in Judge Tanya Chutkan's courtroom.

In the recording, released by ABC News' Jonathan Karl and recorded on March 18, 2021, Trump boasts that he would have been "well-received" by the crowd that showed up on the day the 2020 presidential election results were to be certified.

A leading member of a conservative think tank is now calling for U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — the Trump-appointed overseer of the former president's classified documents trial — to be impeached.

In a response to the news Thursday evening that Judge Cannon was refusing to set a key pre-trial deadline until next year, Norman Ornstein — an Emeritus scholar at the Koch-funded American Enterprise Institute — called for an impeachment resolution to be introduced against Cannon.

The special counsel investigating President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents isn't expected to file any charges, and Donald Trump predictably raged against the news.

Special counsel Robert Hur and his team are expected to issue a detailed report criticizing the current president and his staff for their handling of sensitive materials, but two sources close to the investigation told CNN that no charges are expected at the conclusion of the year-long probe.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann was quick to call out Judge Aileen Cannon in response to a decision she handed down in special counsel Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago documents case on Thursday.

The Guardian's Hugo Lowell reported that Cannon, a Donald Trump appointee, has denied Smith's "request…. that she set (a) CIPA Section 5 deadline" in the case — meaning that the "defendant is required to disclose what classified info he intends to use at trial."

Judge Aileen Cannon again ruled against the Justice Department on setting the court schedule for in the Trump classified documents trial — and her latest decision has onlookers alarmed.

The judge ruled Thursday against the Department of Justice's attempt to set some key deadlines ahead of Donald Trump's trial. Special counsel Jack Smith's office had asked for a December deadline for Trump's legal team to disclose what classified materials they intended to use at trial.

Judge Aileen Cannon has ruled against the Department of Justice's attempt to set some key deadlines ahead of Donald Trump's trial.

Special counsel Jack Smith's office had requested the District Court judge set a deadline in December for Trump's legal team to disclose what classified materials they intended to use at trial, but Cannon denied their motion and instead set the deadline for March, which legal experts agreed would almost certainly delay the trial that had been scheduled to start in May.

Donald Trump called for someone "high up" to fire the prosecutors who have indicted him on various criminal charges.

The former president, who has been indicted in four jurisdictions on 91 charges, was speaking to a post he shared about the election loss of Loudon County, Virginia, prosecutor Buta Biberaj, who was edged out by Republican Bob Anderson by a razor-thin margin once all the votes were finally counted this week.