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Donald Trump and his allies may run into problems if they try to appeal a judge's decision last week that found there wasn't sufficient evidence have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis removed from his Georgia election interference case, according to a legal expert.

Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the case, ruled on Friday that there was not enough evidence regarding a conflict of interest, but added that the case's lead prosecutor, Nathan Wade -- with whom Willis admitted having an romantic affair -- must step aside as a precondition for Willis to stay on the case.

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.

On her "Civil Discourse" Substack platform, former prosecutor Joyce Vance once again made the case that Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon is giving the former president a helping hand by giving serious consideration to what she believes are unserious legal maneuvers.

Reflecting on the Florida courtroom hearing last week, Vance wrote, "Judge Cannon also discussed, as though it was a serious thing, Trump’s motion to dismiss for selective or vindictive prosecution."

"To succeed, Trump would need proof that prosecutors singled him out for prosecution for discriminatory reasons despite not prosecuting others for the same conduct or that the prosecution was retaliation for his exercise of his rights," she added. "In other words, there’s not an iota of evidence to suggests Judge Cannon should do anything other than deny the motion promptly."

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She added the caveat that Cannon could order more discovery as yet another delaying tactic.

"But one option, if she is taking it seriously, is to find that Trump has established a prima facie case for it, or at least that he’s entitled to more discovery to try and do so, and to permit a wide-ranging inquiry into the government’s process here," she explained.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an argument from a Donald Trump supporter that the justices had accepted from the former president.

Couy Griffin, co-founder of "Cowboys for Trump," was disqualified by a New Mexico judge from holding elected office under the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause following his conviction for taking part in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but the Supreme Court turned down his appeal, reported the Associated Press.

During a rally in Vandalia, Ohio, this Saturday, Donald Trump promised a "100 percent tariff" on cars manufactured outside the U.S., saying that if he's elected president, auto manufacturing jobs for Americans would be protected.

However, Trump's speech drew more scrutiny when he argued that him not being elected would mean a "bloodbath" for the American auto industry.

On Monday morning, Donald Trump lashed out at his critics for all the attention he has garnered after saying a "bloodbath" would occur if he is not re-elected in November.

On Saturday, the former president told rallygoers in Ohio, "If I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that's going to be the least of it. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country."

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was thrown for a loop last week when Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) announced that he would be retiring, thus boxing her in to remaining in her current congressional district until this fall.

A report in The Guardian, which describes Boebert as being "outmaneuvered," explains that Buck's resignation triggered a special election that meant Boebert would have had to resign her current seat in order to compete in Buck's former district.

Donald Trump intends to give his disgraced former campaign manager Paul Manafort a role in his 2024 re-election campaign.

Four sources familiar with the discussions told the Washington Post that the former president has talked about enlisting Manafort, who was convicted of tax and bank fraud but later pardoned by Trump, to play a role centered around the Republican convention in Milwaukee

A chaotic incident last month in Arizona has been held up as a harbinger of violent activity related to November's election.

Supporters of Donald Trump descended on a board of supervisors meeting Feb. 28 in Maricopa County, where they forced their way to the rostrum and refused to leave in a protest of the former president's election loss, reported the Washington Post.

With Donald Trump's so-called "hush money" trial in Manhattan likely to be the only one of many he is facing that might be decided before November, there is compelling evidence that a guilty verdict would cripple any chance that the former president has of being re-elected.

That is the takeaway from a poll commissioned by Politico that shows a tight race between the multi-indicted former president and President Joe Biden would strongly tilt to a win for the Democrats.

The Guardian has interviewed multiple intelligence experts who are predicting that a second Trump presidency would be a disaster for the United States.

Included among them was retired CIA Operations Officer Douglas London, who told the publication that former President Donald Trump's affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin was particularly troubling.

The hosts and panelists of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" were among the many Americans disturbed by Donald Trump's prediction of a "bloodbath" should he lose re-election in November made while speaking to rabid supporters in Ohio over the weekend.

Added to that, as co-host Joe Scarborough noted, was Trump's follow-up comment which got little notice but that should be seen as equally alarming.

With the entire panel dismissing pushback from the Trump campaign claiming the former president was only talking about the auto industry, Scarborough cut to the chase and called the Trump response "bull---t."

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After showing a clip of the now-infamous rally speech, where Trump threatened, "Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath," Scarborough focused on what came next.

"It was a distinction without a difference, talking about the auto industry, then it'll be a bloodbath," the MSNBC host began. "Maybe you can connect that to the auto industry — maybe you can, okay. Again, I've never really heard people discuss macroeconomics in terms of bloodbaths, but maybe so, for argument's sake."

"But then he says, '...and that's going to be the least of it,'" he pointed out. "If you think there's going to be a bloodbath in the auto industry, even if you take that argument at face value, which, again, given the tone of the rest of the speech, bloodbath, I'm not sure he's talking about the niceties of international trade; let's take that argument as is. Then he goes on and says, 'That's going to be the least of it,' repeats it, 'it's going to be the least of it.'"

"Folks obviously, he's talking about a bloodbath for America," he elaborated. "It's laid out in the terms of it. These idiots on Twitter, these idiots on cable news, idiots on Sunday shows going, 'He was only talking about the industry...' That's bull----t. I'll say that at 6:15 a.m. it was bull---t."

"He knew what he was doing — we're not stupid. Americans aren't stupid," he added. "He was talking about a bloodbath. Sometimes a bloodbath means a bloodbath. When he finishes by saying, 'And that's just going to be the least of it,' seriously? These people may be stupid, we're not."

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