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'Pocketing the money?' Trump fans rip Jenna Ellis for plea after raising $216K for defense

Attorney Jenna Ellis became the fourth co-defendant to flip on former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney's election interference case when, on Tuesday, October 24, she entered a "guilty" plea in an Atlanta courtroom.

Ellis, who promoted Trump's false claims of a stolen election in 2020, agreed to probation and a fine but will avoid prison. In exchange, she must give Willis' office her total cooperation — much to the chagrin of Trump World.

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ACLU sides with Trump over Jan. 6 criminal case gag order: Report

The American Civil Liberties Union has sided with Donald Trump over a gag order in the federal criminal case over his attempts to delegitimize the results of the 2020 election, the Guardian reported Wednesday.

The historically liberal watchdog argued in a brief to the court that U.S. district judge Tanya S. Chutkan's limited gag order, which forbids Trump from publicly attacking Special Counsel Jack Smith, was too broad.

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Trump lawyers' 'embarrassingly awful' filing ripped to pieces by criminal law professor

Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump this week filed a motion to dismiss charges against their client by alleging vindictive prosecutorial bias on the part of special counsel Jack Smith.

Carissa Byrne Hessick, a criminal law professor at the University of North Carolina, read through the filing – and determined that it was "quite awful" and likely to fail.

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Trump defiant as inner-circle flips: Meadows 'strongly believed the election was rigged'

Donald Trump spoke on Wednesday after reports that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows made a deal for limited immunity in exchange for testimony in the federal election subversion case against the former president.

Meadows reportedly told special counsel Jack Smith's team that he had repeatedly informed Trump that Joe Biden fairly won the 2020 presidential election.

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Mark Meadows may be angling for a 'sweetheart deal' with Fani Willis: ex-Trump lawyer

One-time Trump attorney Tim Parlatore speculated on Wednesday morning that it wasn't a coincidence that news of former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows' immunity deal with special counsel Jack Smith leaked at the same time that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been flipping witnesses in a series of plea deals.

During an interview with CNN's Phil Mattingly, Parlatore said he was not surprised that Meadows had taken an immunity deal from Smith and said that news of the deal may been leaked by Meadows' team to send a message to Willis.

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Morning Joe gloats as Trump allies flip: All fun and games until you follow him to prison

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough exulted as more Donald Trump allies have flipped against him in criminal cases involving his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Jenna Ellis on Tuesday became the third Trump attorney to plead guilty in the Georgia election interference case, joining Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, and sources confirmed that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had been granted immunity to testify against the former president in special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 case.

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Latest Trump rant is 'like a checklist of things barred by the gag order': legal reporter

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched a late-night attack on special counsel Jack Smith that Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney argued violated Judge Tanya Chutkan's gag order, which she temporarily suspended late last week.

Commenting on the post, in which Trump attacked witnesses who are now cooperating with the special counsel, Cheney argued that it is "like a checklist of things barred by the (now-suspended) gag order."

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Mark Meadows immunity deal doesn't mean he's out of the woods yet: legal expert

Immunity may only be half-full for Mark Meadows.

Although Mark Meadows has made a deal to plead guilty so lead prosecutor Jack Smith can have him testify against former President Donald Trump in his federal indictment -- he still has to deal with the Georgia RICO and conspiracy case, according to a legal expert.

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Mark Meadows deal gives Jack Smith Trump's 'right hand'  to refute Jan. 6 claims: experts

With Mark Meadows reportedly pleading guilty in exchange for testifying against his former boss, it arms federal prosecutors with a lot of firepower, according to a former prosecutor appearing on CNN.

Asked why this spelled trouble for Trump, Eli Honig, a former New York federal prosecutor, said that the former president's Chief of Staff has a holy grail of insights to what transpired on Jan.6 when the Capital was under siege.

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'Weaklings and cowards': Trump lashes out against witnesses taking deals from prosecutors

Donald Trump on Tuesday evening called witnesses in his criminal cases "weaklings and cowards," and suggested they are taking plea deals and lying out of fear of prosecutors.

Trump, who is currently under multiple gag orders from various courts in different jurisdictions, has been lashing out against those testifying against him in the civil fraud case, including his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Now, his attention is squarely on the criminal charges the former president faces.

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'Hugely significant': Mark Meadows could prove Trump cheered violence on Jan. 6

He holds the keys to the kingdom's dining room.

Now that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has taken a plea deal to testify in the federal presidential election subversion trial, the former lead investigator of the Jan. 6 Select Committee suspects this provides prosecutors a massive missing piece of the alleged inaction on behalf of the 45th president that fateful day.

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'The jig is up' for GOP leaders after Mark Meadows revelation: Post reporter

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has reportedly accepted an immunity deal with the Justice Department in the 2020 election case, ABC News reported on Tuesday afternoon.

Speaking about it on MSNBC, Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig said that another major piece of the puzzle is that Meadows' autobiography has been the source used by other lawmakers to justify their opinions around the 2020 election.

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Jack Smith grants immunity to Mark Meadows in exchange for testimony on Trump: Report

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reportedly accepted an immunity agreement to testify under oath against former President Donald Trump.

Sources told ABC News that special counsel Jack Smith's team has met with Meadows at least three times in recent months.

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