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JustSecurity reporter Adam Klasfeld reported Monday that four potential brokers said they couldn't find anyone to take Donald Trump up on a bid to offer his real estate empire as collateral for a nearly $500 million bond, citing a deposition from the former president's lawyer Alan Garten.

There were also about 30-plus "surety companies he says Trump Org. unsuccessfully approached," Klasfeld added on social media.

Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Fulton County racketeering case are demanding that Judge Scott McAfee reconsider his decision that District Attorney Fani Willis can remain on the case.

McAfee ruled last week that, if lead prosecutor Nathan Wade is removed from the case, Willis could remain. He had been considering an ethics complaint from the defendants concerning a romantic relationship between the two.

Conservative social media influencer Isabella Maria DeLuca was arrested over the weekend in Irvine, California, for her participation in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

The warrant, issued by Judge Robin Meriweather, was issued at the end of February, charging DeLuca with "theft of government property and aiding and abetting theft of government property, entering or remaining in restricted buildings or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in the Capitol Building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol Building."

Speaking on "Jack," a podcast that focuses on the prosecutions being led by special counsel Jack Smith, former FBI deputy director Andy McCabe and legal analyst Allison Gill explained why the Justice Department isn't indicting Donald Trump's co-conspirators yet for allegedly helping him defraud the United States with his effort to illegally remain in power.

The 2020 election case Trump faces isn't exclusively about him, as several high-ranking officials, activists, legal advisers, and campaign strategists were part of a move to overturn the vote.

"The View" began Monday with a discussion of Donald Trump's speech in Ohio on Saturday in which he celebrated the Jan. 6 rioters with a salute and called them "hostages." It was also the speech in which Trump called migrants "animals."

Both Republicans on the panel were quick to talk about the seriousness of Trump's comments and the fear that they will be overshadowed by the debate over his "bloodbath" comment.

CNN political panelist Alice Stewart attempted to explain away Donald Trump describing some migrants as "animals," but Democrat Maria Cardona and CNN host Jim Acosta weren't having it.

Speaking Monday morning, Stewart began by spinning Trump's threats of a "bloodbath" as being about the economic fate of the automobile industry rather than a call for violence.

A "person of interest" in Serbia has been connected to a spate of swatting calls aimed at senior Biden administration officials, according to a new report.

The Secret Service has tied more than 100 harassing calls made over the winter holidays — primarily targeting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly — to a Serbia-located swatter who could soon face charges, CBS News reported Friday.

Donald Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump took over the Republican Party as co-chair last week — and immediately announced the shuttering of the Republican National Committee's community centers in neighborhoods of color.

The GOP opened a number of centers in key swing states where they thought they could move Black and Latino voters to support Republican candidates.

Calls for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to recuse herself from the Georgia election racketeering case against Donald Trump spurred one name to trend on X Friday: Clarence Thomas.

The Supreme Court Justice — beleaguered by reports that he accepted luxury gifts from political operatives and that his wife Ginni threw her support behind Trump's "Stop the Steal" campaign — took center stage as X users questioned his ability to rule on cases involving the former president.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office will hand Trump's team another 15,000 new documents they obtained from the Southern District of New York for the election interference case involving hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Another 31,000 documents were released Thursday.

The DA is handing the documents over to Trump after the S.D.N.Y. informed him they found new documents when Trump's team requested them two months ago. Bragg's team had requested the paperwork last year.