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Newly leaked tapes of an interview of President Donald Trump's one-time associate Sidney Powell by Fulton County prosecutors is incredibly damning for Trump in the Georgia election racketeering case, said January 6 investigator Tim Heaphy on MSNBC Tuesday.

For one thing, Heaphy told anchor Nicolle Wallace, Powell reveals on the tapes that Trump deliberately ignored counsel telling him he lost the election — undermining his argument that he truly believed in good faith the election was rigged.

Former President Donald Trump's ex-legal adviser Sidney Powell had a simple explanation for Georgia prosecutors trying to figure out why the former president listened to her — even as she pushed bizarre conspiracy theories and claimed she could time travel and talk to the wind.

According to The Washington Post, she told attorneys working for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis that Trump ignored White House counsel and listened to her instead “because we were the only ones willing to support his effort to sustain the White House. I mean, everybody else was telling him to pack up and go.”

Longtime Donald Trump associate Sidney Powell, an attorney who pushed election conspiracy theories that were espoused by a woman who believes she can speak with the wind, has taken a plea agreement in the Georgia election racketeering case — and part of her agreement involved admitting that the former president called her several times to check in on how her legal efforts to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election were coming along.

That's a problem, noted Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake on X, because it contradicts a defense that the former president made on his Truth Social platform attempting to throw Powell under the bus.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called for Donald Trump's election subversion trial to be televised, but a legal expert said there are obstacles to putting cameras inside a federal courtroom.

Special counsel Jack Smith's office filed a motion rejecting an argument by Trump's attorneys to televise the trial, which had been requested by a consortium of media organizations, and a "Morning Joe" panel debated how and why the courtroom proceedings could be broadcast.

Trump's social media guru might be forced to spill the beans on his boss, if Jenna Ellis' testimony is any indication.

Dan Scavino, the former president's deputy chief of staff who rose to power from picking golf clubs as a caddy, may be forced to disclose confidential conversations or directives as part of the fact-gathering efforts by prosecutors.

A furious Donald Trump ripped up a note about top Army leaders who said the military could not involve itself in the election. Then he tweeted that would "change the course of history," calling supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021: "Be there. Will be wild."

The note — written by a Trump staffer affirming the president's intention to fire army leaders should they publish another public statement — appears in Jonathan Karl's widely anticipated new book "Tired of Winning" set to be released at midnight.

For weeks, former President Donald Trump has refused to tip his hand about whether he will invoke an advice-of-counsel defense in the federal 2020 election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. It is a move that would potentially be his only decent defense, but it would also come with substantial caveats.

Now, Judge Tanya Chutkan has ordered him to clarify whether he will use the defense — and, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman wrote for the Los Angeles Times, that strategy has significant implications.

Special counsel Jack Smith urged U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to deny Donald Trump's motion for further delays in his federal election subversion trial.

In a motion filed on Sunday, attorneys for Trump complained that the prosecution had filed an "oversized, 64-page omnibus response" to a motion to dismiss the case. Trump's replies to the prosecution's filing were due by Nov. 16.

Former President Donald Trump has asked U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to reschedule a hearing so he can attend court in New York, where he has been accused of 34 counts of falsifying business records.

In a motion filed on Monday, attorneys for Trump told Cannon that he had a conflict for a scheduled Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) hearing on Feb. 15 and 16.