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A leading religious scholar said Tuesday he was using his faith to halt the "manifest surrender" of American Christians to Trump — and the fascism he expects him to bring.

Dr. David P. Gushee, a distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Georgia's Mercer University and chair of Christian social ethics at the Free University of Amsterdam, spoke with Salon's Chauncey Devega about what he says is a crisis in "White Christianity" as it slowly submits to Donald Trump.

After appearing in court on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump took to his social media site to claim that if there is no such thing as absolute presidential immunity, then Joe Biden can be prosecuted for anything Trump wants if he wins.

"Just finished a very productive Federal Appeals Court Hearing, in Washington, D.C., on whether or not a President should have Immunity," Trump wrote with randomly capitalized letters. He went on to say that special counsel Jack Smith also attended the proceeding.

A senior Chinese official said Tuesday that Beijing did not seek to reshape the global order and sought greater US cooperation, in the latest departure from past hawkish rhetoric.

At an event to mark 45 years since Washington and Beijing established relations, Liu Jianchao, who heads the international division of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, quoted President Xi Jinping as saying China "will not fight a Cold War, or a hot war, with anyone."

In his first campaign speech of the year, on Friday, just outside of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden drew distinctions between what he called his fight for American democracy and Donald Trump's attacks on it.

" Trump won’t do what an American president must do," President Biden told supporters in what The New York Times called a "blistering" speech that delivered a "ferocious condemnation" in "searing language" against his likely 2024 election opponent, Donald Trump.

Donald Trump lawyer John Lauro echoed his client on Tuesday by warning that President Joe Biden could face prosecution simply because his administration's Department of Justice brought charges against the former president.

While talking with reporters after an appeals court hearing in which Trump's legal team argued their client had absolute immunity from criminal prosecutions, Lauro made the case that hitting Trump with criminal charges would spark a cycle of recriminations in American politics.

As Rep. James Comer (R-KY) began investigating Hunter Biden for his alleged use of shell companies to hide money made from his foreign business deals, it emerged last month that he in fact had his own shell company — which he quickly dismissed by claiming his company did legitimate business. But according to a new Daily Beast report, Comer's company doesn't have a very clean record.

"A review of dozens of tax, real estate, and business filings in Kentucky and Tennessee indicate that Comer’s own personal 'books and records' are opaque at best — and improper at worst," reported Roger Sollenberger. "Those records include the dealings of Comer’s shell company, Farm Team Properties LLC, which the state of Kentucky has dissolved twice for failure to file annual reports — first in 2020, then again in 2022."

A CNN panel on Tuesday said that former President Donald Trump is going to be swamped by the political and legal calendar he's facing in his latest bid to run for the White House.

Looking at all of the scheduled court dates that Trump is due to face in the coming weeks, CNN's Kaitlan Collins argued that the schedule "could be a nightmare very much in the courtroom and what happens with the general election" later this year.

US authorities detained a person near the White House on Monday who crashed a vehicle into an exterior gate of the presidential mansion complex, the Secret Service said.

President Joe Biden was out of town at the time of the incident, and security officials did not say whether it was a traffic accident or intended as an attack.