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Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys militant group, was just given the longest sentence yet for the Jan. 6 riots, and MSNBC's Chuck Rosenberg explained how that might impact Donald Trump's prosecutions.

The former president has been charged by special counsel Jack Smith's office for his own role in the insurrection, and Rosenberg told "Morning Joe" that Tarrio's conviction and sentence was instructive because, like Trump, he wasn't present at the U.S. Capitol during the attack but his leadership role was factored into his trial and penalty.

Former President Donald Trump will continue to ramp up his attacks on judges and prosecutors as he "tests the limits" of what he can get away with in his criminal trials, said New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, also known as the "Trump whisperer."

This comes as former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy for the January 6 attack, based partly on domestic terrorism considerations — which, Haberman argues, is not going to influence Trump's calculus in his own defense.

A legal expert on Tuesday said that as a presidential candidate, Donald Trump’s public comments in connection with his sprawling legal woes present unique challenges for prosecutors and could lead to a request to have his movements monitored.

Former federal prosecutor Eli Honig during an appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” said should Trump violate terms of his bail agreement, it would be unthinkable for prosecutors to ask that the former president be jailed.

Donald Trump on Tuesday took aim at the Jan. 6 House select committee, which the former president in his latest social media rant accused of improperly deleting and destroying evidence.

Trump suggested in a Truth Social post that “Deranged Jack Smith” should be "investigating the political Hacks & Thugs of the highly partisan January 6th Unselect Committee for tampering with, deleting, and destroying highly Confidential & Classified documents, pictures, tapes, evidence, and all forms of other important information."

A federal judge on Tuesday handed Donald Trump a legal win in the Jan. 6 election conspiracy case.

Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled in Trump’s favor after his lawyers argued for an emergency motion to vacate a motion filed by special counsel Jack Smith.

The lead investigator for the House Select Committee that's investigating attempts to overthrow the 2020 election result thinks special counsel Jack Smith is now examining attempts to make money off the fraud.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, Tim Heaphy related suspected financial dealings based on claims that the election was stolen to an operation that was selling snake oil.

Right-wing news outlet One America News Network (OAN) and its star correspondent Chanel Rion have settled a defamation suit with a former executive of Dominion Voting Systems, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday.

Eric Coomer had to go into hiding after false claims circulated alleging that he and Dominion conspired with Antifa to steal the 2020 election. In an August 30 filing in Denver County District Court in Colorado, Coomer and the defendants, Rion and OAN's parent company Herring Networks said they agreed to end the suit, the Beast reported.

John Eastman, a former attorney for Donald Trump, has asked Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee to sever his case from co-defendants seeking a speedy trial.

Eastman and 18 others, including Trump, are facing charges for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Two of the defendants in the case — attorneys Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell — have been granted an Oct. 23 trial date.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday handed what appears to be a partial victory for Rep. Scott Perry in the Pennsylvania Republican's effort to block special counsel Jack Smith from investigating data on his phone that was seized by the FBI, Politico reports.

Federal investigators in August 2022 seized Perry’s phone amid an investigation over allegations former President Donald Trump and his allies tried to overturn the 2020 election. They have been unable to access it because Perry filed a legal challenge, citing his privilege as a federal lawmaker.

Donald Trump's co-defendants will start clamoring to cooperate soon enough, according to an attorney who recently defended Oath Keepers members in a Jan. 6 case.

The former president has been indicted along with 18 allies in Georgia on racketeering and other charges related to his scheme to overturn the 2020 election results, but attorney Gene Rossi told CNN that reports showing that special counsel Jack Smith is probing post-election fundraising may pose a real threat to conservative attorney Sidney Powell, in particular.

In contrast to Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' broad, far-reaching case, special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results is often described by legal experts as lean and mean.

But according to CNN reporters Zachary Cohen and Paula Reid, Smith is, in some ways, "widening" his investigation. And this increases the possibility that some of Trump's allies "could still face legal peril" because of their efforts to help Trump stay in office in 2020 despite losing the election to now-President Joe Biden.

According to a Tuesday morning report from CNN, it appears that special counsel Jack Smith is following new leads and looking into more attempts to breach voting equipment in multiple states by operatives tied to Donald Trump.

With Smith having already filed indictments against the former president in Florida and Washington, D.C., the new reporting opens the prospect that yet another round of indictments may be forthcoming, as well as painting a portrait of an even more wide-ranging conspiracy to steal the 2020 presidential election.