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Rudy Giuliani says key Biden whistleblower no one has ever heard of has died

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have claimed that they saw an FBI document that reports a bribery and money laundering scheme by President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

The document is called an FD-1023 form and it's what agents use when they get a tip from the public about a possible crime. There is reason to believe that Rudy Giuliani is the one who made that report, given comments in Bill Barr's autobiography.

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'Road to hell is paved with good intentions': DOJ blasted for special treatment of Trump

Legal eagle Andrew Weissmann attacked his former employer, the U.S. Justice Department, for what he called going above and beyond to accommodate Donald Trump.

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions," Weissmann explained, speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday.

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'A challenge with the American right': Columnist reveals how Trump's supporters don't grasp 'basic facts'

Washington Post columnist Aaron Blake highlighted the evolving thoughts of Republican voters now that Donald Trump has been federally indicted – and the persistence of willful ignorance.

Blake began with Newsmax host Greg Kelly claiming that one of the Department of Justice's photos of the spilled box holding classified documents doesn't actually show anything that's top secret.

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Whoopi Goldberg wants a constitutional amendment: 'You shouldn't be able to run the country from the joint'

"The View" began Thursday with the co-hosts debating a recent statement from former Vice President Mike Pence who, along with other presidential candidates, has suggested Donald Trump should be pardoned if he is convicted of the crimes he's accused of.

"You know, I thought it was interesting that Pence didn't say, 'Hey, were you there when they were saying they were going to hang me?'" Goldberg quipped. "You know, these guys seemed a little shocked that he would have this response."

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Donald Trump is 'Kryptonite' to lawyers: columnist

For the past year, legal analysts have joked that MAGA stands for "making attorneys get attorneys," a reference to the number of Donald Trump's lawyers who have also found themselves in legal trouble.

It was mere days ago it was reported Trump's ongoing problems to find a Florida lawyer that was willing to work for him.

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Former GOP chair: There is no way out for Republicans after quadrupling down on Trump

Former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele doesn't think much will change in the GOP now that Donald Trump has been indicted, and he said Wednesday that his acolytes are stuck with him as he is after quadrupling down on the former president.

A report from NBC News revealed that, behind the scenes, Republicans recognize that Trump's indictment for stolen documents is really bad for them.

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What would Trump's life be like behind bars?

Speaking to CNN International, former ethics czar and impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen was asked whether Donald Trump could end up behind bars. Trump may be found guilty. But, would he go to prison?

It's a question that continues to surface. How would it work? Would he be afforded Secret Service protection if he's in jail?

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'Too close to call': Legal expert says Judge Aileen Cannon could drop critical evidence against Trump

Among the first actions of Donald Trump's legal team will likely be a procedural motion his former attorney Tim Parlatore teased Tuesday to ask that pieces of evidence be excluded because they were obtained from notes taken by Trump's lawyer Evan Corcoran and should be covered by client-attorney confidentiality, a legal expert said Wednesday.

A federal court and federal appeals court has already ruled on the effort, but Trump's team may be able to get his new judge, Aileen Cannon, to throw it out of court.

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Legal experts fear Fulton County case against Trump could end up being a 'sprawling mess'

In a discussion Wednesday about Donald Trump's indictment in the Mar-a-Lago document case, legal experts Harry Litman and Norm Eisen deviated to address concerns they have about the pending case in Fulton County, Georgia.

Several weeks ago, District Attorney Fani Willis said she expected a large pool of people to be indicted in her investigation that's looking into attempts to interfere with the 2020 election in Georgia – but the legal eagles on the "Talking Feds" podcast said a case needed to be kept simple.

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Senate Republicans threaten to cut funds to FBI if it doesn't kill Trump indictment

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's indictment from the grand jury turned top Republicans in the Senate to look for ways to go on the attack.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) explained that he's prepared to defund the federal police branch.

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Reporters reveal the bizarre scene inside the Miami courtroom with Donald Trump

MSNBC's Lisa Rubin was among those reporters that made it into the courtroom ahead of Donald Trump's plea, which means she had a lot of colorful details about the quick arraignment.

She posted a thread online before appearing on air, saying that his close aide Walt Nauta went from being a co-conspirator to a body man, to a defendant and then back to being a body man again.

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Ex-Trump lawyer dismantled for 'prosecutorial misconduct' claims that were already decided on appeal

Donald Trump's lawyers have been spinning a claim of prosecutorial misconduct that they think should stop the entire federal case against the former president, but it appears the issue on which they're relying might have already been resolved against them.

It has been challenging to determine what Trump's lawyers mean because this is an accusation that Trump or his allies make in almost every case. Eric Trump, for example, alleged prosecutorial misconduct back in Aug. 2020 when the Trump Org. first faced the fraud case in New York.

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'Well, that's a lot of crazy': CNN's Jake Tapper gives scathing take on Trump lawyer's claim

CNN host Jake Tapper didn't hold back when it came to a statement Donald Trump's civil lawyer Alina Habba gave outside the Miami courthouse on Tuesday.

Among the allegations from Habba was that "the people in charge of this country do not love America" because they "hate Donald Trump." It has been an ongoing argument used by Trump that ties together love for him and love of the United States.

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