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Former Donald Trump Presidential Inauguration Committee chief Tom Barrack has just lost his lawyer.

The New York Law Journal revealed on Tuesday that Barrack's lawyer, O’Melveny & Myers partner Daniel Petrocelli, was leaving Barrack as jury selection is getting started. It was reported Monday that Barrack's team had been trying to eliminate any potential juror that ever made a disparaging comment about Donald Trump. Trump is not involved in the lawsuit.

MSNBC producer for Rachel Maddow, Steve Benen, couldn't help but take the next step after former President Donald Trump announced that he wants a 2020 "new election immediately." Given the support Trump has in the Republican Party, Benen asked whether other GOP officials are ready to support this plan.

It has been 22 months since Trump lost the election, Benen wrote. Up until this point, Trump has maintained that he won the 2020 election. He even tried to change the results in several states and his campaign falsified documents attempting to swap out the electors. But in his latest rant, Trump admits he lost by demanding the 2020 election be redone.

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl wrote in his post-Donald Trump administration book that on Jan. 20, as Trump was flying from the White House for the final time, he spoke to the head of the Republican Party and threatened to start his own party. RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel reportedly told Trump that if he started a third party that the RNC would stop paying his legal bills, which were costing the party millions.

Politico reported Tuesday, however, that that decision has ended. According to the report, any legal fees having to do with Trump's retention of government documents is not being paid by the RNC.

Recently posted court records suggest that the fake electors in Michigan helped motivate a group of people in Brooklyn to travel to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 and join the Capitol attack.

Legal analyst Marcy Wheeler posted the screen captures of the court documents related to Francis Connor, Antonio Ferrigno Jr. and Anton Lunyk.

Former President Donald Trump's allies have spent the past several days attempting to justify his possession of a cache of government documents, including hundreds of classified documents, by referencing Hillary Clinton's email controversy. The Wall Street Journal is just one of those trying to dismiss Trump's crimes by saying that because others did it, it was fine for Trump.

As former FBI agent Asha Rangappa explained, Trump is in a league of his own when it comes to his scandal.

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell began his Monday show with a brutal accusation for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Over the weekend, Graham made the accusation that if his "friend" is charged for the crimes he is accused of committing there will be "riots." Graham didn't discourage it, nor did he condemn it.

Commentators have spent the day comparing Graham's statements to being akin to saying "it would be a shame if riots broke out." As Vanity Fair explained, he and Trump are all but calling for violence.

The former counsel for the FBI and prosecutor on Robert Mueller's team noted that there are quite a few more crimes that Donald Trump could be charged with after stealing documents from the government.

According to legal expert Andrew Weissmann, the Justice Department affidavit cited three crimes, but he's got several more that could be added.

The parent company of Alex Jones' InfoWars agreed in bankruptcy court that it wouldn't fight the second lawsuit against him from a Sandy Hook family that was the target of harassment, ABC News reported.

It was just a few weeks ago that Jones' company filed for bankruptcy despite revelations that they had millions in profits. In Texas, Jones was told to pay over $45 million, however, Texas doesn't allow people to collect that amount. They limit it to $750,000. In Connecticut, however, there is no cap.

Among the information that was seized at Mar-a-Lago was a document about French President Emmanuel Macron. And according to Donald Trump it was about his sex life, Rolling Stone reported on Monday evening.

The report cited two sources that Trump has had a "tawdry" interest in Macron for years and even bragged recently that he knew "illicit details about the love life" of Macron.

MSNBC host Ari Melber chatted with legal expert Melissa Murray on Monday about the difficulty that Donald Trump is having trying to find experienced legal representation.

Melber mocked Trump's legal team for spending weeks talking on Fox and Newsmax about their grievances, without making any legal moves. Only after the FBI and national security experts went through the documents did the Trump legal team file a suit asking for a court representative to search through the information.

Matt Chandler, the lead pastor at the Village Church, which operates under the Southern Baptist Convention, announced this week that he's resigning his position after having an Instagram relationship. Chandler, who is married with three children, told his flock, "I fell short."

Christianity Today explained that the elders in the church were made aware Chandler's online messages and reviewed some of the comments he'd made on the social media site. They found that the direct messages he exchanged "revealed something unhealthy."

Tom Barrack, a former fundraiser for Donald Trump, and chief of the Inaugural Committee is asking to dismiss any potential jurors from his case that considered Trump their "least favorite person" or who have "any strong feelings" about 2016 and Trump's administration.

According to the New York Daily News, Barrack doesn't want New York City jurors to serve as part of the federal trial taking place in Brooklyn, New York.

Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson appeared on MSNBC's "Deadline White House" with Nicolle Wallace Monday to talk about the group's latest ad that highlights the ways in which the Republican Party was once opposed to so-called "big government" and the "nanny state" legislating the personal behaviors of Americans.

Wallace, who served in George W. Bush's White House, has abandoned the GOP since Trump took over the GOP. Wilson similarly did the same, forming the super PAC with a group of so-called "Never Trumpers," who continue to support moderate candidates.