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'Dumb': Legal expert says Fani Willis would be unwise to hit Trump again

A legal expert warned Thursday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis would be unwise to refile indictments against Donald Trump and his co-defendants.

The judge overseeing the case zapped six criminal counts in Georgia's sprawling RICO election subversion criminal case, including three directed against Trump.

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Ex-aide says Trump was 'unwell' in White House: 'Only imagine what's happened since'

A onetime appointee of Donald Trump says the former president was unstable during his White House tenure and appears to have only continued a downward descent.

Miles Taylor, Trump's former Homeland Security department chief of staff, appeared on Deadline: White House on MSNBC Thursday to share his concerns about the presumed Republican nominee's potential return to the Oval Office.

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'A sight to behold!' Trump previews grievances against Manhattan DA as trial nears

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform Thursday to rage — once again — against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

"The things that took place at the Manhattan D.A.’s office, in conjunction with people from the DOJ put in charge of 'getting TRUMP,' are truly a sight to behold," wrote Trump. "They illegally withheld thousands of pages of documents. Then you have the really shady 'Pomerantz' issue, and wow, people have never seen anything like this one."

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Trump tipped his hand to illegal behavior by trying to delete evidence: top Obama lawyer

Legal analyst Neal Katyal explained that he considers himself to be an excellent attorney — but even he wasn't sure he could win Donald Trump's classified documents case.

Katyal, the former acting solicitor general for Barack Obama's administration, spoke to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace Thursday after Trump spent the day in a Florida courtroom. Wallace could not understand why the case hadn't moved forward — and why special counsel Jack Smith hadn't officially complained about Judge Aileen Cannon's delays.

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Navarro could have dodged prison by just showing up at Jan. 6 committee: legal analyst

All he had to do was show up.

Donald Trump's former adviser Peter Navarro looks set to become a prisoner next week after a final appeal against a contempt of Congress conviction failed Thursday — and a legal expert said it's a sentence that would have been so simple for him to avoid.

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'So ridiculous even Trump knows it's not true': Nicolle Wallace mocks core legal argument

A core argument in Donald Trump's effort to have his classified case dismissed was blown up by a commentator Thursday, moments after the former president's request was denied.

One of the claims Donald Trump's lawyers are trying to make is that a previous case involving Bill Clinton and audio tapes he kept in a sock drawer proves that Trump’s actions were legally sound.

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Ex-Trump lawyer says Biden worked with DOJ to 'make a big show' of being better than Trump

As Judge Aileen Cannon denied President Donald Trump’s to have the case over his handling of classified documents dismissed Thursday, his ex-lawyer appeared on TV.

CNN's Boris Sanchez spoke with attorneyTimothy Parlatore about his thoughts on special counsel Robert Hur's report announcing his decision not to charge President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents.

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Judge Cannon denies Trump's bid to dismiss Mar-a-Lago indictment

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has denied a motion by former President Donald Trump to dismiss many counts of his indictment in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, reported MSNBC's Katie Phang.

Trump's legal team had argued that the charges against him for unlawfully retaining classified information were defective due to "unconstitutional vagueness."

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'Pay-per-view in front of firing squad': GOP candidate called for Obama's public execution

The Republican candidate to oversee schools in North Carolina has repeatedly called for executing Democratic presidents, a CNN report claimed.

According to an investigation by CNN's KFILE, "Michele Morrow, a conservative activist who last week upset the incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Carolina’s Republican primary, expressed support in 2020 for the televised execution of former President Barack Obama and suggested killing then-President-elect Joe Biden."

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Trump spokesperson accuses Alvin Bragg of admitting violations in new hush money filing

Former President Donald Trump's campaign claimed Thursday that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was "conceding serious discovery violations" in his criminal hush money case when he said he would not oppose a 30-day delay in the trial.

Trump shared a comment from campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung on Truth Social minutes after news spread of Bragg's three-page filing in response to the former president's motion to dismiss.

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'Dizzying and confusing': Legal expert says hush money development left onlookers bemused

A likely delay in the Manhattan hush money prosecution of former President Donald Trump has created an extra cloud of confusion over everything, said former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams to CNN's Brianna Keilar on Thursday — but he added the trial is still the most likely of the four to be held prior to the 2024 election.

District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is charging Trump's alleged payments to adult movie actress Stormy Daniels as felony business fraud in service of an illegal campaign finance scheme, said he is open to a 30-day delay "in an abundance of caution" so that Trump's team can review documents provided by federal prosecutors that could expose new details.

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Jim Jordan threatens Alejandro Mayorkas with subpoena over killing of Laken Riley: report

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been threatened with a subpoena from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who accuses Mayorkas of withholding information about the migrant who allegedly killed 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley.

In a letter sent this Thursday, Jordan accuses Mayorkas of ignoring a February 27 request for the immigration history of suspect Jose Ibarra — who four days later allegedly bludgeoned Riley with a blunt object, disfiguring her skull, The New York Post reported.

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Trump lawyer giggles as ex-president whispers comments during classified documents hearing

Donald Trump's lawyer giggled and smirked as the former president whispered in his ear during a hearing in special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case Thursday, according to a CNN report.

At first, Trump sat in rapt attention as he followed proceedings in the Fort Pierce federal courtroom where Judge Aileen Cannon heard arguments about two motions to dismiss, according to a reporter inside the courtroom.

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