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Trump could face more FBI raids as witness suggests documents still hidden: ex-prosecutor

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani is warning there might be more classified documents in Donald Trump's possession — and another FBI raid might be on the horizon, Newsweek reported.

Among the revelations in the stolen document case is that Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler, in an interview with CNN, said he helped Trump aide Walt Nauta deliver boxes of the documents to a plane "in June 2022 — the same day that Trump and his attorney were meeting with the Justice Department at Mar-a-Lago about the classified documents."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens ‘Democrat’ Mike Johnson and likens him to Nancy Pelosi

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is ramping up her threats against Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson after filing an open-ended motion to oust him last month which she can activate at any time.

The Georgia GOP Congresswoman's top priority appears to be blocking critical military aid to help Ukraine defend against Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal war. And she's threatening she could try to force the gavel from Speaker Johnson's hand if he moves to allow legislation to support the sovereign nation go to the floor for a vote.

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'If he loses, the billions fizzle': WSJ columnist sounds alarm for Truth Social investors

Investors who jumped on the Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. stock this week despite warnings that the company may never be profitable were put on notice Thursday morning by Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henniger that the fortunes of the company are subject to not only the whims of the Donald Trump, but what the future has in store for him.

After taking a big stumble at the start of the week, the stock has since stabilized, but the long-term prospects are anything but certain.

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Burger King diner pulls gun on worker because he didn't believe food was so cheap: report

Police in Ohio are looking for a man they say pulled a gun on a Burger King worker because he couldn't believe the fast food joint's low prices.

According to The Daily Beast, the customer grew agitated during a drive-through run near Cleveland when he learned his order was cheaper than he thought it would be.

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'All my money': Mike Lindell suggests he's blown $20M on election crusade

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell claimed that his financial difficulties are all related to his crusade to prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

During a Thursday interview with radio host John Fredericks, Lindell downplayed his recent eviction from a Minnesota warehouse — and blamed a sugar beets company that had subleased the spot.

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Biden scrambles to nix Trump's power to enact revenge 'master plan' if elected

The Biden administration is scrambling to put in last-minute protections for federal workers as Donald Trump has publicly vowed a revenge vendetta if he's elected.

A new rule introduced Thursday aims to stop civil service protections from being eliminated if positions are turned into an exempt category by presidents such as Trump, who says he plans to disrupt the "deep state" by targeting career government workers if he becomes president again.

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Trump has one stall tactic left in hush money trial — but it's a 'long shot': CNN expert

Former President Donald Trump saw his "presidential immunity" argument that tied up the federal January 6 case soundly rejected by New York Judge Juan Merchan in the Manhattan hush money case, partly due to most of the alleged criminal conduct taking place when he wasn't even president, and partly due to failing to raise the issue in a timely procedural fashion.

Trump's only delay tactic left might be to try to ask a federal court to step in, suggested former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN Thursday — but he'd be relying on a "long shot" argument that has already come up in federal court and already failed.

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Critics pounce on journalist for hyping 'embarrassing' story on Trump's Spotify playlist

Axios reporter Jim VandeHei was on the receiving end of some significant criticism from his Twitter followers on Thursday for hyping up a story about former President Donald Trump's Spotify playlist.

In a post promoting the story, VandeHei posted two "siren" emojis, which are usually deployed to signify a major scoop, and he then proceeded to inform his followers that "there's a Rosetta stone that demystifies how his brain works, his closest friends tell us: his Mar-a-Lago Spotify playlist and nightly DJ routine."

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Trump demands 'lowlife' Jack Smith be 'censured' for putting Judge Cannon on the spot

A federal filing by special counsel Jack Smith that put Judge Aileen Cannon on the spot over her widely criticized proposed jury instructions has infuriated Donald Trump, who subsequently lashed out on Thursday morning.

The Trump-appointed judge had asked both parties in the Mar-a-Lago documents case for proposed jury instructions which led to Smith delivering what observers have called a "withering response" with the implicit threat that he may seek relief from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

In the filing, Smith's office maintained Cannon would be “asking the jury to make a factual finding with no proper legal connection” to the case, adding that an alternative, “would amount to nothing more than a recitation of Trump’s PRA defense” which “would result in directing a verdict against the Government.”

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The former president came to Cannon's defense, and labeled Smith a "lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to 'play the ref.'"

According to the former president, "Deranged 'Special' Counsel Jack Smith, who has a long record of failure as a prosecutor, including a unanimous decision against him in the U.S. Supreme Court, should be sanctioned or censured for the way he is attacking a highly respected Judge, Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over his FAKE Documents Hoax case in Florida."

"He is a lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to 'play the ref,'" he accused before adding, "He shouldn’t even be allowed to participate in this sham case, where I, unlike Crooked Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and all the rest, come under the Presidential Records Act."

Switching to all-caps, he revisited his usual grievances, writing, "I DID NOTHING WRONG, BUT BIDEN DID, AND THEY LET HIM OFF SCOT-FREE. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN, JACK? A TWO TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!"

'One member of Congress can cause so much chaos': CNN host flabergasted by MTG stunts

CNN's Sara Sidner was blown away by the extent to which Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is derailing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in his plans to bring a vote on Ukraine funding in the House.

Greene, who categorically opposes any assistance to Ukraine, has called Johnson "a damn fool and a liar," threatened to call a vote to expel him from leadership, and is even insinuating he's being blackmailed.

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'Really smart' Jack Smith filing is 'baiting' Aileen Cannon into making a critical mistake

CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams argued on Thursday that special counsel Jack Smith had painted Judge Aileen Cannon into a corner by forcing her to make an appealable ruling about proposed jury instructions before actually empaneling a jury in the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents trial.

Williams' remarks came in reaction to former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb arguing that Cannon had done enough to justify getting removed from the case all together given her rulings that critics have repeatedly called overly deferential to the former president.

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What federal law says about Trump 'threatening a sitting president'

Former President Donald Trump set off yet another controversy when, on March 29, he posted a short video on his Truth Social platform that included a depiction of President Joe Biden hogtied in the back of a pickup truck.

Trump himself didn't create the image, which has been available on a decal. But some of his critics have been arguing that he is promoting violence against Biden — and getting away with it.

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Trump has run out of trial delays because 'Judge Merchan has had it': former prosecutor

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" On Thursday, former Department of Justice prosecutor Andrew Weissmann put Donald Trump on notice that jury selection in his Manhattan hush money trial will likely remain as scheduled despite all of the former president's attempts to delay the proceedings.

Speaking with the co-host, Weissmann was asked if jury selection would commence on April 15th as scheduled by Judge Juan Merchan after Trump and his lawyers demanded his recusal and also complained about pre-trial publicity tainting the jury pool.

"All signs are that Judge Merchan has had it," the former prosecutor explained. "All of the scheduled motions were supposed to be in weeks if not months ago. All of the efforts you're seeing at the last minute by the former president to delay this trial have been rejected."

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"As you said, there is now this pending motion about delaying the case because of pretrial publicity — that is going nowhere fast," he added. "You know, everyone on both sides agrees that pretrial publicity is going to continue and not abate at any time, so that's not a reason to put the trial off, it's a reason to make sure you're careful with jury selection to make sure you can find 12 jurors who are going to be fair and impartial and put aside whatever feelings they have about the case and decide just based on the facts."

"But we are now 11 days away, and you know, knock on wood, I think there are no more delays that are going to happen. We're going to see jury selection begin a week from Monday," he predicted.

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