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Former President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform Monday that among his first acts as president will be to release convicted and accused Jan. 6 rioters from jail if elected to another term in November.

"My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!" Trump posted.

Special counsel Robert Hur, who oversaw the investigation into President Joe Biden's retention of classified information, timed his resignation from the Justice Department with the help of Trump-aligned lawmakers ahead of his testimony to Congress, reported the Independent on Monday.

"According to multiple sources familiar with Mr Hur’s plans, the special counsel, who is appearing before the Judiciary Committee at the request of the Republican majority led by Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, has arranged his departure from the Department of Justice to be official as of Monday 11 March, one day before he is scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill," wrote Andrew Feinberg. "Instead of appearing as a DOJ employee who is bound by the ethical guidelines which govern the behaviour of federal prosecutors, he will appear as a private citizen with no constraints on his testimony."

The anonymous witness in Donald Trump's classified documents case went public Monday in spite of what a onetime aide to the former president describes as a "mob bunker mentality," she says.

The Mar-a-Lago witness known in court papers as "Trump Employee 5" — who came forward to identify himself as Brian Butler — dished to CNN on his former boss of two decades in a bombshell interview.

New York Attorney General Letitia James Monday filed a lengthy opposition to former President Donald Trump's request to stay his more-than $450 million civil fraud trial ruling, court records show.

The 132-page rebuttal filed to the New York Supreme Court appellate division argues Trump has yet to prove he can come up with the cash to pay damages ordered by Justice Arthur Engoron.

Donald Trump Jr. made a shocking revelation Monday while discussing his much maligned position on Russia's war with Ukraine during an interview with former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

"Apparently I'm stupid," Trump Jr. declared. "I'm a Putin apologist and a Russia lover. Basically I work for them according to the mainstream press."

Former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann Monday explained that former President Donald Trump could find himself facing sanctions that include jail if he repeats defamatory comments against writer E. Jean Carroll.

Weissmann's analysis arrived hours after the Republican frontrunner made potentially defamatory remarks about the former writer — who successfully sued him for $83.3 million in New York civil court — on CNBC Monday morning.

Donald Trump hosted Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago Friday, lavishing him with praise the type of which he's given other authoritarian leaders in the past.

“There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán,” Trump said. “He’s the boss and he’s a great leader, fantastic leader. In Europe and around the world, they respect him.”

Brian Butler, an employee at Mar-a-Lago serving as a witness in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, told his side of the story to CNN's Kaitlan Collins in an interview released on Monday.

Butler, identified in court records only as "Trump Employee 5," said he was asked by the former president's body man Walt Nauta, also charged in the indictment from special counsel Jack Smith, to help him load boxes onto Trump's plane.

Republican political analyst and strategist Susan Del Percio told MSNBC on Monday that Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama killed her shot at being vice president.

In a broader conversation about GOP opposition to new mothers in Congress being allowed to vote remotely for six weeks after giving birth, an MSNBC panel turned to the Republican senator's response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address, presented from her kitchen Thursday.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday sought to delay the New York election interference trial, which deals with the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, by claiming "presidential immunity."

But legal analysts on social media after the filing pointed out Trump has already waived his right to claim such protection.

Fewer than three seconds of the State of the Union Address by President Joe Biden is getting a Republican senator in trouble.

KWTV reported Monday that Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, the key architect of the conservative border policy that could have passed the House and Senate, appeared to agree with Biden about details in the plan.

The co-hosts of "The View" were shocked at how Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt misled the public in her State of the Union response speech last week.

Over the weekend, it was revealed that Britt changed facts when she blamed President Joe Biden for a shocking tale of a woman being sex-trafficked as a 12-year-old. The facts were revealed, Whoopi Goldberg said, showing the woman was trafficked in Mexico, "nowhere near the border," during George W. Bush's administration.

Childhood friends of Republican Sen. Katie Britt think she did everything right for her political career in Alabama — until she became pro-Donald Trump.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, Republican strategist Rina Shah revealed that her husband grew up with Britt in Alabama.