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A federal judge peevishly shot down Rudy Giuliani's last-ditch effort to avoid a jury trial in a libel suit brought by a mother-daughter pair of Georgia poll workers.

District judge Beryl Howell denied the former Donald Trump lawyer's request by repeatedly noting that his attorney had missed deadlines in the case filed by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, and she rejected his argument that mistakes by the pair's counsel justified a shift from a jury trial to a bench trial.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) attacked new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and others in the Republican leadership, like Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who are all being controlled by Donald Trump and an extension of his campaign for the presidency.

Speaking to MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin on Sunday, Garcia explained that the facts constantly thwarted the ongoing attack against Hunter Biden, the president's last living son.

Rudy Giuliani expressed fear on Sunday that he could go to prison for the rest of his life after Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) suggested that data from Hunter Biden's laptop had been "manipulated" by the former New York mayor.

On his Sunday radio program, Giuliani said he deserved praise for exposing the contents of a laptop belonging to President Joe Biden's son, Hunter.

A lawyer representing Donald Trump in the sweeping Fulton County election interference probe says that if the trial begins in August as requested by prosecutors, it would be one of the most egregious examples of election interference in United States history.

During a Fulton County Superior Court hearing on Friday, prosecutors, defense attorneys and a judge worked through some of the logistical and legal challenges in scheduling the trial date for Trump and his remaining 14 co-defendants facing charges of racketeering and conspiracy at the height of the 2024 election season.

Appearing on MSNBC early Saturday morning, the Guardian's Hugo Lowell followed up on his reporting that Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows will not be offered plea deals by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis by noting the Georgia prosecutor is sitting on a mountain of evidence.

Prompted by host Katie Phang over whether the cases Willis has is rock solid against the former president, Lowell referred back to her indictment that hinted she has evidence that the House Jan. 6 select committee did not have to use when it came to proving attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

"I think it is notable the evidence that was in the indictment against Trump that Fani Willis had, which was not in the D.C. indictment, you know she had a lot of evidence that was separate from the January 6 committee found, what the federal investigation found, and, also it applies to Mark Meadows," he told the host.

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"She had a lot of points in the indictments about how Meadows was coordinating with state officials, where he was giving both in his capacity, maybe as a White House official, but also, what he was doing on behalf of Trump as a campaign, as a presidential candidate," he continued. "So, I think there were notable instances of evidence that Fani Willis had, but the federal indictment did not have."

"I think it speaks to the strength of her argument," he concluded.

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Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia aren't willing to give former President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani the same plea deals they gave to attorneys Sidney Powell, Ken Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis.

The Guardian's Hugo Lowell reports that prosecutors have ruled out offering deals to Trump and Giuliani, as well as to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, which means that those three will be dragged into court to face charges in Fulton County DA Fani Willis' sprawling racketeering case.

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were the two associates of Rudy Giuliani who funneled campaign money from foreigners to Donald Trump, according to a Justice Department indictment. But more than their scheme, their work with Giuliani as he worked to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine.

Parnas was sentenced to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release in June 2022, after pleading guilty. He did work with congressional committees when asked for information in 2020.

Far-right attorney John Eastman, one of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election racketeering case, told conservative publication The Federalist his legal expenses in the case have left him in a dire financial situation.

Eastman, founder of the right-wing Claremont Institute-affiliated Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and a former law professor at Chapman University, told Julie Kelly on her "Declassified" podcast that he is facing down $3 million to $3.5 million in legal fees to defend the case, brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis against the former president, Eastman, and over a dozen other accused co-conspirators.

Political, congressional and judicial leaders think that Donald Trump may try to overthrow the United States in 2025, but they're downplaying the seriousness that it can happen.

A report from "The Messenger" interviewed "more than 20 people ... from across the political spectrum, including Democratic and GOP lawmakers, former senior DOJ leaders, Trump critics and the former president’s first-term lawyers, aides and advisors." Each was asked about the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, which would make good on Trump's past efforts to fire anyone working in the government who doesn't support him. Each doesn't anticipate Trump will be able to accomplish his task of putting his foes in prison and making up the government his own personal fiefdom.

The new attorney hired by Rudy Giuliani to defend him in the Georgia election racketeering case compared himself to a famous example in American history of a lawyer representing an unsavory client, according to the Wall Street Journal — John Adams defending the troops who staged the Boston Massacre.

L. Allyn Stockton Jr., according to the report, "only hesitatingly calls himself a Republican" and says there have been "not infrequent" occasions when he disagrees with his party and votes for Democrats instead. But he thinks that the racketeering charges in this case are on "shaky ground," however unpopular it might be to represent Donald Trump's inner circle.

In the past, Rudy Giuliani's allies applauded him for being tough on crime — first as a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, then during his two terms as mayor of New York City. But these days, Giuliani is inundated with legal problems, in addition to being among the many co-defendants in Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' case against 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.

Giuliani has so many legal bills that, according to reports, he hasn't been paying them on time. In September, Robert Costello, one of Giuliani's former lawyers, filed a lawsuit against him and alleged that he was owed $1.36 million in unpaid legal bills. Now, Giuliani is being sued by his accountants for the same reason.

Ruby Freeman's lawyer clashed in court with the attorney for Harrison Floyd as a hearing on potential bond violations by the Trump co-defendant unfolded in Fulton County, Georgia, Tuesday.

At issue is whether Floyd harassed people on social media. The conditions of his release pending trial include not communicating directly or indirectly about the details of the case or with any of the co-defendants or known witnesses.