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Despite already facing a total of 71 criminal counts — 37 in special counsel Jack Smith's federal Mar-a-Lago case, 34 in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr.'s case in New York State — former President Donald Trump may be up against even more criminal charges if an investigation by Fulton County DA Fani Willis leads to a state indictment in Georgia.

Willis has been probing Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, which is also the focus of a separate and broader probe being conducted by Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). It remains to be seen whether either case will lead to an indictment, but according to CBS News reporters Graham Kates and Nikole Killion, Georgia residents selected as grand jurors on Tuesday, July 11 "may soon consider charges against Trump."

National security expert Marcy Wheeler posted a screen capture Tuesday from the court documents for the indictment of the GOP's Hunter Biden whistleblower. What it reveals is that, long before the GOP considered him a "credible source," he was indicted by the Justice Department.

On Nov. 1, 2022, Gal Luft, the director of a Washington, D.C., think tank, was indicted, the papers show. The indictment was then sealed.

A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Monday temporarily blocked the construction of a section of the Mountain Valley Pipeline that runs through Jefferson National Forest, pending a conservation group's petition to review the federal government's authorization of the fossil fuel infrastructure development.

"Time and time again, Mountain Valley has tried to force its dangerous pipeline through the Jefferson National Forest, devastating communities in its wake and racking up violations," Ben Tettlebaum, director and senior staff attorney at The Wilderness Society, said in a statement. "We're grateful that the court has given those communities a measure of reprieve by hitting the brakes on construction across our public lands, sparing them from further irreversible damage while this important case proceeds."

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) can't keep track of all the Biden administration officials she wants to impeach.

During an interview with Charlie Kirk, Boebert confused the potential impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas with the possible impeachment of Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Republicans reacted to the arrest of a purported whistleblower on serious federal charges with more conspiracy theories involving President Joe Biden.

Think tank director Gal Luft, who claims to have knowledge of Biden family corruption, was indicted by the Department of Justice for allegedly violating Iran sanctions, trafficking weapons and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China, and GOP lawmakers and conservative broadcasters immediately accused the president of targeting him, reported the Washington Post.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is accusing the U.S. Dept. of Justice of silencing House Republicans’ top witness Republicans claim is a “whistleblower,” who allegedly is promoting what appear to be baseless claims accusing President Joe Biden of engaging in criminal acts including bribery. That witness is now known to be think-tank director Gal Luft, who was arrested on an Interpol warrant in February in Cyprus, was released on bail, and has been on the run ever since. Monday evening the DOJ released a statement that Gal Luft “was indicted today for allegedly engaging in multiple international criminal schemes.”

Luft is facing an eight-count indictment that includes, according to DOJ, “offenses related to willfully failing to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA),” along with “arms trafficking,” “conspir[ing] with others in an effort to act within the United States to advance the interests of the People’s Republic of China (China),” and, “Iranian sanctions violations and making false statements to federal agents. Luft was arrested on Feb. 17 in the Republic of Cyprus based on the charges in the indictment.”

Chris Christie called out Donald Trump's false bravado and predicted he would eventually accept a plea agreement to avoid prison.

The former president has been indicted on fraud charges in Manhattan and dozens of federal charges in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, and the Trump ally-turned-Republican presidential challenger told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that his braggadocious response to the criminal cases was just an act.

In his New York Times column, liberal economist Paul Krugman has often expressed frustration over the fact that so many Americans are feeling sour about the U.S. economy despite low unemployment numbers under President Joe Biden. Those numbers continued in June, when the United States' unemployment rate, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), was 3.6 percent.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought on a brief recession in the U.S. in 2020, but unemployment plummeted in the Biden era.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a descendant of the Kennedy political dynasty and environmental lawyer turned anti-vaxxer and Alex Jones-style conspiracy theorist, has managed to attract publicity with his campaign for president, largely with the backing of Republican chaos agents like Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson even as he ostensibly runs in the Democratic Primary against President Joe Biden.

But he knows he won't really be president. He doesn't actually want to be president, argued Jack Shafer for POLITICO Magazine. Rather, he has a different goal altogether — and in some ways, he's already won.

Chris Christie warned that Donald Trump would be unable to push through any of the policies that voters might support because his second presidency would be even more chaotic than the first.

The former New Jersey governor and current Republican presidential candidate pledged he would not vote for Trump should he win the GOP nomination, telling MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the ex-president had proven himself incapable of executing his duties and serving the interests of the public.

Former President Donald Trump's advisers reportedly believe that his best shot at beating the multiple legal charges against him involves winning the 2024 presidential election.

The New York Times is reporting that "some of the former president’s advisers have been blunt in private conversations that he is looking to winning the election as a solution to his legal problems," which include both federal charges leveled by special counsel Jack Smith and state charges leveled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Republican lawmakers as their conspiracy theories about the Biden family fall apart.

A so-called whistleblower who repeatedly accused President Joe Biden and his son of corruption was indicted by the Justice Department with arms trafficking and acting as a foreign agent for China, as well as violating Iran sanctions, and the U.S. attorney for Delaware knocked down claims by another purported whistleblower about the Hunter Biden prosecution.