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Former President Donald Trump has removed chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg from serving as an officer on some of his other companies.

According to a Wall Street Journal report Monday, documents show that Weisselberg's name was removed from Trump Organization subsidiaries, such as the Trump Payroll Corp. The same company is named in the prosecution of Weisselberg for subverting taxes to the local, state and federal governments.

Mark Ponder is accused of assaulting Washington, D.C. Metro Police officers using a flag pole, resulting in 12 charges. But during his court appearance on Monday, he refused to make a deal with prosecutors.

A March BuzzFeed report walked through Ponder's actions on Jan. 6, saying that after he allegedly attacked officers, he "was tackled to the ground outside the Capitol at around 2:49 p.m. by a group of Metropolitan Police Department officers." About 25 minutes later, "he was allowed to walk away because a police transport couldn't get through to the Capitol grounds and the officers who'd arrested him were ordered back to the riot to help with crowd control, according to court filings."

Former member of Donald Trump's legal team, Sidney Powell, issued a final statement at the close of the Michigan hearing that will decide whether she and Lin Wood are sanctioned by the court for their election lawsuit.

At issue is the question of whether Powell or Wood did the legal work necessary before filing their case that included 200 affidavits of people who claim they witnessed election irregularities. The irregularities were mostly from people who simply don't understand the process of tabulating an election.

When Michael Wolff wrote "Fire and Fury," it shredded Donald Trump using stories that the author overheard while sitting on a West Wing couch and speaking to White House aides. In his new book, he describes the former president as excited to see him, even though Wolff was "mean."

"When Trump finished with the senator and saw me, it was like he was seeing his best and oldest friend. He said, those books you wrote were very mean and very wrong. But I don't blame you. I blame my people who talked to you," Wolff told Der Spiegel in an interview.

Things weren't going well for Sidney Powell and Lin Wood's lawyer Donald Campbell who attacked U.S. Federal Judge Linda Parker during the Monday hearing on whether or not the pro-Donald Trump lawyers would be sanctioned.

At issue is that Powell and Wood submitted court documents "to make the public believe that there was something wrong in Michigan, there was something wrong in Wayne County," said the judge, explaining that it appears they made no due diligence to research if the claims were valid ones.

Court documents in the discovery phase of many of the Jan. 6 insurrectionist trials has revealed why the Justice Department might be so confident about their case, noted legal analyst Marcy Wheeler.

Tweeting Monday, Wheeler posted an excerpt of a "boilerplate discovery notice" that revealed that the Justice Department and law enforcement is confident in their GeoFencing information because they obtained all of the phone records.

During the Monday sanctions hearing for Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, their lawyers Julia Haller, Howard Kleinhendler and Donald Campbell attempted to explain why their clients didn't correct any false information in their Michigan election filings.

Detroit lawyer David Fink accused Powell and Wood of recklessness in making citations in the court document that were easily disproved with a simple google search. Fink said that Powell and Wood alleged that in Detroit there was over 100 percent vote count. Fink said that anyone could search the actual election results and find the corrected percentage on the County Clerk's website.

Former President Donald Trump's legal team members Lin Wood and Sidney Powell were mandated to appear in a Michigan court proceeding on Monday morning to uncover whether or not they'll both be sanctioned for their election lawsuits that were deemed dishonest by colleagues.

Detroit lawyer David Fink was the local attorney who accused the two lawyers of "lies," "unhinged conspiracy theories," and "fraud on the court" in the court filings.

A shocking Washington Post report revealed Sunday that a movement of Christian nationalists is pressing for a movement that puts their church at the heart of a Trumpist theocracy.

The story begins with a shocking story of a church pastor displaying a map of Ft. Worth and dividing it into sins like greed, competition, rebellion and lust. The story described a world in which demons are real, magical miracles can actually happen, there are only two genders, no abortion, Bible-based education, and the church rules everyone's life.

DALLAS — Volunteers for a right-wing organization at the Conservative Political Action Conference spent Sunday morning promoting an "official" event featuring a speech Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., posting signs sponsored by a group called "Look ahead America" — though a CPAC official told Salon the event was never sanctioned at all.

The conference sought to distance itself from the embattled Congressman by confiscating several signs and handouts for the speech, which read "join Look Ahead America's official CPAC event featuring Representative Matt Gaetz and Colonel Allen West."

Former President Donald Trump continued to spread his 2020 election lies in this CPAC speech Sunday. But one thing was notably different: Fox News ran a disclaimer that he was lying.

While Fox has spent the past several weeks allowing their prime-time hosts to spread lies about the COVID-19 vaccine. The network appears to be drawing a line when it comes to the election.

Former President Donald Trump went after Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) during his Sunday CPAC speech. Trump had ordered that Schiff, his staff and his family be spied on by the government because he suspected that Schiff was leaking classified information to the press.

In his speech, Trump went after Schiff three times, reigniting his nickname "shifty" and saying that everything Schiff said was "pure bullsh*t."

A former lawyer to President Donald Trump is fighting with the Republican Party chair if Twitter is any indication.

Jenna Ellis posted on Twitter Sunday that Republican National Committee chair Ronna Romney McDaniel blocked her after she talked about an excerpt from Michael Wolff's new book on Trump and the final part of his administration. In November of last year, Ellis forwarded an email from the Republican Party's lawyer Justin Riemer questioning Trump's election claims.