At the end of his four years as President, The Washington Post published its final, regularly updated list of all the "false or misleading claims" Donald Trump made, totaling 30,573.

Also at the end of his four years in office, McSweeny's published, "Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing: Atrocities 1 – 1,056."

A Rolling Stone report detailing Donald Trump's alleged plan for NATO if he wins the White House next year is making political experts greatly concerned.

" Trump and his team are actively planning to pull the United States out of NATO — or, barring that, kneecap the collective defense provisions at the heart of the alliance," writes Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman.

Legal and political experts are raising red flags about all nine Republican candidates now running for Speaker of the House, warning of their positions, histories, and voting records.

The nine are: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (MN), Republican Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson (LA), Republican Study Committee Chair Kevin Hern (OK), Jack Bergman (MI), Byron Donalds (FL), Dan Meuser (PA), Gary Palmer (AL), Austin Scott (GA), and Pete Sessions (TX).

Ivanka Trump's attempt to block a subpoena issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James is a losing battle that will end with her in court facing either testifying against her father or facing possible perjury charges, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said Monday.

On her Substack platform, Vance suggested that Donald Trump's eldest daughter's attempt to duck the subpoena by claiming that James didn't depose her before the Manhattan fraud trial began, so she can't make her testify now, is a non-starter.

In his filing, Ivanka's attorney asserted, "Trial subpoenas are not a means for parties to get discovery, which they failed to obtain during pretrial proceedings,” before adding, "Ms. Trump is not a party in this action. Nor is Ms. Trump a New York resident. It is black-letter law that, given those two facts, Ms. Trump is beyond the jurisdiction of this Court.”

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According to Vance, trial testimony about Trump's daughter's purchase of a penthouse located in her father’s Trump Park Avenue property, and how it is valued, is germane to the fraud case.

Writing, "She is nonetheless a fact witness in this regard, and it seems likely she’ll be ordered to testify," Vance noted, "The Attorney General says that although Ms. Trump has denied it, she benefitted from 'insider' pricing — she had an option to buy the penthouse for $8.5 million, but the Trump Organization’s financial statements valued the unit at $20,820,000."

MSNBC's Katie Phang reported Sunday that Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba will be the one to do the questioning of Michael Cohen in court on Tuesday. Habba was also the lawyer on the Trump team who interviewed Cohen for his deposition.

Cohen's testimony last week was delayed by an injury, and while Trump tried to mock him for not having the "guts" to face him, Cohen made it clear the testimony was merely delayed, not canceled.

During a series of phone calls with a New York Times journalist, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) claimed that his extended family was victimized by the Chinese Communist government which was behind the brief kidnapping of his niece.

According to a police official: it never happened.

In an extensive piece for the Times, journalist Grace Ashford detailed a history of receiving calls from the embattled lawmaker at all hours, where he alternately defended himself and complained about the turn his life has taken since entering Congress, one time claiming, "I literally threw my entire life into the toilet and flushed it to get elected.”

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In the midst of those calls, he claimed his niece had been abducted in Queens and hinted the Chinese Communist government was possibly behind it.

According to Ashford, Santos was complaining about the threats he has faced when he confessed to her, "I’ll give you one, I’ll give you one story that nobody talks about,” she wrote before adding that he related, "... how his 5-year-old niece disappeared from a playground in Queens, only to be located 40 minutes later on a surveillance camera with two Chinese men. He said the incident was the subject of an active police investigation, implying heavily that it might have been in retaliation for his vocal stance against the Chinese Communist Party."

“So you think it was China?” the journalist asked, with Santos reportedly replying, "Look, I don’t want to go into like, conspiracy theory. But you know, if the shoe fits, right?”

Curious about the wild accusation Ashford wrote, "There was one other question that was bothering me as well: his story about the Chinese Communist Party kidnapping. I reached out to a colleague with connections to law enforcement officials to learn more about the investigation."

News that former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell worked out a plea deal that will keep her out of jail after being a major player in trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election is not being well received by some attorneys for Jan. 6 rioters whose clients are currently serving time in prison for their part in the insurrection.

On Thursday, Powell agreed to the deal in the Georgia racketeering case that also includes former president Donald Trump, which keeps her out of jail as long as she continues to cooperate with investigators. Then on Friday, another Trump lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, who was neck-deep in the 2020 fake electors plot received a similar deal with no jail time.

Those deals have infuriated attorneys who represented Jan. 6 participants who were never offered similar slap-on-the-wrist offers.

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According to a report from Politico, one lawyer claimed they were "gobsmacked" at how gently the two Trump lawyers were treated.

Bjorn Brunvand, whose client appeared before Judge Tanya Chutkan for assaulting Capitol Police officers, is serving 63 months in prison was stunned by the deals.

“Gobsmacked is certainly an appropriate description considering the sentences that have been imposed against others who believed the lies spread by Donald Trump, Sidney Powell and others,” he stated before adding, "The rules we all share are not applied equitably to all. Frequently, deals are made with the highest-ranking players in criminal conspiracies, while the pawns receive the most significant sentences.”

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is set to testify in the New York fraud case on Tuesday, he told Raw Story.

Cohen had delayed testimony earlier this week to deal with a medical issue.

Editor's note: This report has been updated to include a response from GOP U.S. Rep. Ken Buck.

House Republicans who voted to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker now say they are willing to accept punishment, including censure, suspension, or removal from the GOP conference itself, if Republican "holdouts" opposed to Jim Jordan flip and vote for him to become Speaker.

As Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) continues his quest to become Speaker of the House despite losing votes of his fellow Republicans, the pressure campaign attacking GOP Members of Congress voting against him is hitting new highs. One top Jordan ally Friday morning dismissed them, suggesting they are overblown and a "red herring."

"All of us in Congress receive death threats, I don't think that's a news flash for anybody," U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), who is also the chair of the far-right Freedom Caucus, told reporters.