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Trump reveals he'll give himself up in Georgia on Thursday

Donald Trump took to his personal social media account on Monday evening to reveal it is confirmed he'll be submitting for booking on Thursday.

The news comes after Trump's lawyers negotiated his bail at $200,000 and the conditions which demand that he not issue any threats, veiled or otherwise.

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Republican lawmakers scared of political violence are being drowned out by GOP leaders: ex-DOJ official

Many Republicans are aware that the rhetoric of their party is increasingly driving political violence — but their concerns and objections are being ignored and "drowned out" by leadership, argued Mary McCord, the former acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security.

This comes as former President Donald Trump increasingly targets prosecutors and judges involved in his criminal cases with personal language — and threats mount against them, including a Texas woman who threatened to kill Judge Tanya Chutkan.

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Virginia Sheriff’s Office MIA as armed Boogaloos gather on school grounds

A Virginia law enforcement agency is facing blowback for allowing members of a far-right extremist group to march on school grounds openly toting military-style rifles, The Daily Beast reports.

A small group of Boogaloo members gathered Saturday night at the Thomas Calhoun Walker Education Center for an event the group had announced on social media.

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Documentary shows Roger Stone dictating 2020 election protest talking points to Michael Flynn

Documentarian Christopher Guldbrandsen is continuing to release more information about his film in which he follows Roger Stone.

In one clip seen by Raw Story of the Stone documentary, Guldbrandsen is in the back seat of an SUV as Stone gets in.

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Roger Stone caught on tape confessing that Trump lost

Filmmaker Christopher Guldbrandsen appeared on MSNBC again Monday revealing more of the details he captured for his film on far-right activist and political operative Roger Stone.

In the new video, Stone, a longtime GOP operative and Donald Trump ally, confesses that Trump lost the 2020 election and he was well aware of that fact before he began efforts to overthrow the results.

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Nicolle Wallace hammers Republican for dodging whether he'll back Trump

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace laid into former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday during an interview on "Deadline: White House."

Hutchinson, who is running for president in 2024, has repeatedly said he cannot back former President Donald Trump if he is a convicted criminal. Yet, he signed a pledge to get on the RNC debate stage that would require him to back Trump if he is the nominee, even as he still claims he cannot back the former president.

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'Seething' Melania furious at Trump's use of Barron as 'political pawn': report

Former First Lady Melania Trump is fuming at her husband after their 17-year-old son Barron was used as a “political pawn” in a social media post, breaching a promise he had made to her, Radar Online reported Monday.

The former president posted a photo of Barron in July in a post that aimed to disparage Joe Biden.

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'We’re going to see a test of this': Ex-prosecutor says Trump's bail includes conditions he'll struggle to meet

The conditions of Donald Trump's bail in Georgia will likely be tested, one former federal prosecutor told MSNBC's Katy Tur.

Speaking to the network minutes after the news of Trump's bail conditions broke, Barbara McQuade warned that the banning of "veiled" threats will likely be a challenging requirement for Trump to meet.

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Conditions of Trump's bail in Georgia are the strictest yet imposed on him

The list of requirements for Donald Trump if he is to remain out on bail are the strictest so far imposed on him in his criminal cases.

Trump's lawyers agreed that he would put up $200,000 in bail, but the conditions that he must agree to go beyond simply not making threats, which is required in other bail negotiations.

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Jack Smith filing torpedoes Trump's claim he needs until 2026 to prepare for trial

Special counsel Jack Smith responded to Donald Trump's request for a 2026 trial date by accusing him of being overly dramatic about the burden that preparing for the case presents.

Trump's lawyers had complained about the federal case accusing him of attempting to overturn the 2020 election result, claiming that it took the Justice Department two years to investigate the case, so it will take them two years to craft their defense.

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'It's not going to be that difficult to hold Trump accountable — and get convictions': Ex-prosecutor

If there's one thing that former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner is certain of it's that Donald Trump is done, and Sunday's news confirmed it.

ABC News reported that former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows never knew of or witnessed any kind of over-arching declassification policy that would have resulted in the declassification of the Mar-a-Lago documents. When asked about it on Sunday, former Vice President Mike Pence agreed with the assessment.

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It isn't just Trump — the whole GOP is in a 'spiral of radicalization': Authoritarian expert

Authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat warned that the Republican Party is now the party of tyranny.

Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday for a special ahead of the first presidential debate Ben-Ghiat warned that the GOP has entered a kind of "spiral of radicalization."

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'He's starting to seem like he's above it all': Former Trump aide on abandoning the debates

While former communications director Stephanie Grisham agreed her former boss wouldn't look presidential at this week's Republican primary debate, she warned he has to be careful as he moves forward that he doesn't appear holier than the other candidates.

Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta, with former Homeland Security Adviser to Mike Pence, Olivia Troye, Grisham explained that Trump's poll numbers might have him winning, but he shouldn't take it all for granted.

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