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Former President Donald Trump’s legal team wants to try a presidential immunity claim slapped down in one case as a defense in another, according to a new report and court records.

Trump’s attorneys Tuesday gave notice to Judge Aileen Cannon — the Florida federal judge overseeing his classified documents case — that they plan to file presidential immunity arguments, CNN was first to report.

The majority of Republicans think a day of a Donald Trump dictatorship is probably a good idea, a new poll shows.

Trump’s controversial quip that he would be a dictator only on the first day of his second term is considered “definitely a good idea” by 35 percent of newly surveyed Republicans and “probably a good idea” by 39 percent, according to a University of Massachusetts Amherst poll released Wednesday.

It's only Wednesday, but one former Republican lawmaker called the week a "humiliating" one for his party.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday morning, former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) said that the House Republicans have egg on their faces after failing to pass the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. To make matters worse, it comes mere days after Republicans were humiliated after Donald Trump demanded they scrap their bipartisan border security bill until after the 2024 election.

An election technology company has accused a pro-Donald Trump cable network of soliciting “stolen” passwords from hackers after the 2020 election, according to a new CNN report.

These accusations were levied in a civil defamation lawsuit against One America News, the channel on which ex-Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell falsely claimed the company Smartmatic had rigged election results to favor President Joe Biden, according to the report.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) took to the Wall Street Journal Wednesday to slam his Republican colleagues over a failed vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

"Impeachment not only would fail to resolve Mr. Biden’s border crisis," Gallagher wrote, "but would also set a dangerous new precedent that would be used against future Republican administrations."

President Joe Biden is not expected to face criminal charges linked to classified documents found in his Delaware home and private office, according to a new NBC report.

Special counsel Robert Hur will issue the report on his year-long Justice department probe in the coming days, but charges are not expected, a senior law enforcement official told NBC.

Donald Trump lost his "presidential immunity" case on Tuesday in which the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals destroyed his arguments in court.

Several legal experts were quick to offer analysis on the decision, which they said puts Trump in a box when it comes to his options for appeal.

When Donald Trump was impeached for the second time, it was for his ongoing efforts to overthrow the 2020 election and stage the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Republicans, including McConnell, gave a lot of reasons for why Trump should not be impeached, and that is now coming back to bite him — according to one legal expert

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted that McConnel's comments were cited by the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in Trump's "presidential immunity" case.

Two legal experts this week said that actions by special counsel Jack Smith's office have exposed the incompetence of one of the lawyers representing a Trump codefendant in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

At one point, the attorney representing co-defendant Carlos de Oliveira confessed that, over the course of the past several months, he's had serious trouble viewing the exhibits, including the videos from Mar-a-Lago's security cameras, because he doesn't own a computer.