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Donald Trump and his legal team hand-picked the special master that they wanted to be appointed to review all of the documents taken from Mar-a-Lago as part of the former president's stolen document scandal. In court documents released today, the judge made it seem as if he's losing his patience, said one former prosecutor.

Bloomberg reporter Zoe Tillman posted the recent filing of Judge Raymond Dearie saying that he didn't need to meet with Donald Trump's legal team in person on Dec. 1, as previously scheduled. Instead, all Judge Dearie needed were some clarifications on categories.

Former President Donald Trump has confessed.

In an ongoing rant posted to his personal social media account on Monday, the former president admitted that he stole the documents from the White House, concealed them for a year, lied to the FBI, his lawyers lied in court documents, then demanded a special master and now a special master is overseeing a likely prosecution.

On Monday, WIRED reported that Google has handed over location data for around over 5,000 devices to federal investigators pursuing cases against the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 — a dragnet that is unprecedented in scale for such an investigation.

Furthermore, said the report, this handover caught up a bunch of rioters who thought they had turned off their cell phone connections or went out of their way to try to delete their location data.

After Donald Trump held a meeting with white supremacists and neo-Nazis at Mar-a-Lago, Republicans are being asked whether or not they stand with the only 2024 presidential candidate to announce. The GOP leaders have lashed out at reporters asking them about it, presumably because they don't want to be put into the position that they have to emphatically denounce some of their own base.

Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Hayes about Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), former colleague Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) flattened the Texas leader's excuse for refusing to denounce white supremacists and Nazis.

New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait warned that there's no chance that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is going to do anything to fix the extremism problem in the Republican Party were he to take over after Donald Trump.

Last week, Trump welcomed white supremacists and neo-Nazis Kanye "Ye" West and Nick Fuentes to Mar-a-Lago. Republicans have remained largely silent while others claimed Trump didn't know who Fuentes was. Trump also said he didn't know who David Duke was despite being told that he was a previous member of a racist hate group. Retired Gen. John Kelly, who worked last Trump's longest-serving chief of staff, said that the former president praised Adolf Hitler and those that remained loyal to him, while they were traveling in Europe to commemorate the World War II allies. Trump also championed Hitler's "economic miracle," which was previously a 1930s Nazi talking point.

Former Justice Department official and ex-federal prosecutor Harry Litman noted the latest court filing by special counsel Jack Smith on Thanksgiving day. He joined MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace in saying the tone was the part that really made him take notice.

"They made a misrepresentation of what a case stood for," Litman said about Donald Trump's lawyers. "It's the kind of thing, you're new to the case, maybe people would say, 'You know, don't jump in here, Jack. Show that you're prudent. Don't want to look too combative, Jack Smith.' Uh-uh. He came right back with that paragraph that sounded around the world, not just in that court, holding their feet to the fire. And he's got a reputation for being aggressive. This was an aggressive move. They were wrong but he could have thought the court will figure it out, don't come in guns a' blazing. He did, however. And I think it's a real indication of the kind of special counsel he's going to be."

President Donald Trump welcoming a neo-Nazi and white supremacist to Mar-a-Lago has dominated the news for the past week — not merely because of the action itself, but because Republican Party members have largely stayed silent.

Republican leaders like Kevin McCarthy, who is clamoring to snag the Speaker's spot, hasn't said a word. Yet, he has attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for using antisemitic tropes.

The holiday news cycle did little to dull the attacks coming after Donald Trump for welcoming neo-Nazi and white supremacists to Mar-a-Lago.

Last week rapper Kanye West and Nick Fuentes met with Trump leading to swift condemnation from Democrats, Jewish leaders, and even a few Republicans who aren't up for reelection for a while like outgoing Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) who isn't up for reelection until 2026.

Donald Trump is going all-in on attacks against the family of special counsel Jack Smith. Instead of mounting a defense for his actions, Trump deployed one of his top tactics: attacking anyone trying to hold him accountable.

One of Trump's right-wing allies posted a claim that Smith's sister-in-law, who is allegedly a psychologist and whose patients were "crying" and "sobbing" over Trump's 2016 election.

The Trump Org.'s own lawyers almost impeached their witness during the trial on Monday.

"Defense lawyer Susan Necheles said [Trump accountant Donald Bender], a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years overseeing tax returns for Trump’s hundreds of entities, 'surprised' her when he testified that he didn’t actually do much work on the company’s tax returns," the Associated Press reported Monday afternoon.

Republicans ran their 2022 midterm campaigns talking about the economy being a problem and complaining about inflation. Their first actions will focus on investigations into President Joe Biden.

In an interview with "Meet the Press," the presumed incoming chairman of the House Reform and Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) cited a number of "scandals" that only viewers of the Fox networks would know. According to Comer he'll start with an investigation into the COVID-19 pandemic response. He did indicate that the team would investigate the response going back to Donald Trump's administration.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) blasted Republican leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for staying silent in the wake of Donald Trump's recent brunch with a Holocaust-denying white supremacist and pro-Hitler rapper Kanye West.

"After nearly a week since it happened, @GOPLeader McCarthy will not condemn Trump for dining with a Jew-hating Holocaust denier," tweeted Swalwell on Sunday. We gave you a chance, Kevin. So from here on out you’re to be called #KKKevinMcCarthy Twitter, do your thing."

The very existence of the new special counsel has sent Donald Trump into a posting fury of rants and videos on his personal social media website. He has even gone so far as to attack the special counsel's family. According to MSNBC legal analyst and law school professor Joyce White Vance, the incoming special counsel already has the information necessary to indict Trump, and folks should remain patient and calm.

"Prosecutors don't work on a fast time clock," said Vance, indicating a possibility that an indictment wasn't going to happen before the end of the year. "And although we are increasingly impatient as a country to see the former president held accountable, really, we should all take a deep breath and think about why we, too, should give the special counsel the time he needs to do his job properly. We do not want to become the country of screaming people that we saw at Trump rallies, shouting 'lock him up' whenever we don't like something that one of our people on the other side of the political aisle does something that we don't like."