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Chris Christie explained why Mark Meadows could singlehandedly get Donald Trump convicted of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The former White House chief of staff has been granted immunity by special counsel Jack Smith in the District of Columbia case, and Christie told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Meadows would be a compelling witness who could ultimately land Trump in prison and wipe him from the 2024 ballot.

Although special counsel Jack Smith did not charge former President Donald Trump directly with inciting the Jan. 6 riots at the United States Capitol, a new court filing shows that the special counsel's team is preparing to use the riot as a central part of its case that Trump corruptly tried to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election.

As reported by Politico, the new filing written by senior assistant special counsel Molly Gaston argues that Trump's incitement of the mob was part of a last-ditch effort to intimidate members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify President Joe Biden's victory.

Special counsel Jack Smith this week responded to Donald Trump's claim that he was engaged in a selective and "vindictive prosecution."

In a motion filed on Tuesday, Smith fired back at Trump's motion to dismiss his election subversion case.

Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen found a document among his papers at home from his ex-client, showing how he recycles rhetoric and attacks, thinking that they'll be successful.

Holding up a stack of papers, Cohen showed a note written in what seemed like Trump's handwriting, but Raw Story has not independently verified the note.

Special counsel Jack Smith fired back at former President Donald Trump's motion to have his 2020 election subversion case dismissed.

Trump's legal team has argued that the former president cannot be charged with four counts of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election because he has free speech rights and was acquitted during a Senate impeachment trial.

A decision by Donald Trump to appear as a witness for his own defense in the $250 million civil suit trial playing out in Judge Arthur Engoron's Manhattan courthouse could end up blowing up in the former president's face since the judge has already ruled he sees solid evidence of criminal fraud.

The current proceedings are being conducted in an effort for the judge to get his arms around the financial damages the Trump Organization will have to pay for allegedly defrauding banks and insurance companies. Engoron could also ban the involved Trump family members from doing business in the state of New York.

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon doesn't have a leg to stand on as she battles the Department of Justice over proceeding with the federal case filed by special counsel Jack Smith against Donald Trump for obstruction of justice.

That is the opinion of law Professor Stephen Gillers of New York University who told Newsweek that the Trump-appointed jurist is making suspect rulings that may not rise to the point where Smith could successfully have her removed — but are baffling nonetheless.

This past week Cannon snapped at DOJ officials who filed a brief warning she is being manipulated by the former president's attorneys who appear to be seeking to delay the Mar-a-Lago stolen documents case until after the 2024 presidential election.

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According to Gillers, Cannon has an open and shut case that shouldn't take near the time she insists will be needed to bring it to a conclusion.

"It is hard to understand what Cannon is thinking," he told Newsweek's Sean O'Driscoll before adding, "Is she worried about the [Washington] trial going on too long and hitting up against the present start date for her trial? If so, she should wait to see if that happens. She can then delay her start date later. Trials often take less time than the lawyers predict."

According to the legal expert, the obstruction case isn't nearly as "complex" as she appears to be making it out to be and her concerns are suspect and should be questioned.

A decision by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan to accelerate putting together a jury that will hear testimony in special counsel Jack Smith's 2020 election interference trial targeting Donald Trump is a signal to the former president that she has no intention of letting the proceedings drag out.

While Trump's legal teams doing everything they can to delay his multiple trials, Chutkan is swiftly addressing motions and, this week, moved the date up to create the jury that will hear the case she will preside over.

According to former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, Chutkan, with the date change, is serving notice to the former president and his lawyers that she is not messing around.

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Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, the former prosecutor told host Jonathan Capehart, I have selected juries in big RICO cases in that very courthouse, and it's is a long and arduous process. What it looks like the judge is doing is bringing jurors in on February 9th. I think it's worth noting that all we knew previously that jury selection would begin on March 4th."

"She has now, in a sense, bumped it up almost a month and that really does give life to her statement in court that she made during the argument on the gag order that this trial will not yield to an election cycle," he explained. "It looks like she is determined to go full speed ahead and hold this trial in accordance with the trial schedule that she sets, which is unlike what we are seeing in Trump's documents, obstruction and espionage case down in Florida."

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