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During a Friday night speech in Columbia, South Carolina, Donald Trump offered some reasons why he believes that Black voters should support him. Trump, discussing the fact that he is facing four criminal indictments, argued that his legal problems should make him appealing to Black voters.

Trump told the crowd, "The mug shot, we've all seen the mugshot. And you know who embraced it more than anybody else? The Black population. It's incredible. You see Black people walking around with my mugshot."

Former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann and fellow NYU law school professor Melissa Murray penned a new explainer for the Donald Trump charging documents and details about the four cases he faces.

Speaking to "Pod Save America," Murray explained that, as she dived deeper into Trump's "alleged criming," what stood out is "this is a vast tableau that, taken together, shows Donald Trump, allegedly, committing crimes before, during and after his presidency. And I don't think the enormity of the scale of the alleged criminality had really hit us in that way."

Democratic Senators led by U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) will ask unanimous consent on Wednesday to pass legislation to protect in-vitro fertilization (IVF), after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are "children." Immediately following that ruling, some medical facilities that offer IVF services paused those practices over fear they could be prosecuted.

“I warned that red states would come for IVF, and now they have. But they aren’t going to just going to stop in Alabama,” Senator Duckworth said Tuesday during a press conference announcing the legislation, The Hill reported. “Mark my words. If we don’t act now, it will only get worse.”

Conservative journalist Lara Logan suggested Christian nationalism was more significant than the beliefs of Native Americans because white colonizers massacred them.

During an interview on the War Room podcast, Steve Bannon asked the reporter if she was "going full Christian nationalist."

According to longtime attorney and author Kenneth Foard McCallion, Donald Trump's trials and alleged criminality are a test as to whether America will remain a democracy or succumb to the former president's particular brand of authoritarianism.

Speaking to Salon, he warned that intelligence agencies should monitor Trump and his inner circle to make sure he doesn't sell or give away the country's military secrets to a hostile foreign power or any other entity as a way to raise money to cover the massive civil judgments handed down against him.

Donald Trump tried to corrupt his own attorney in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, according to prosecutors.

A court filing provides new details of Trump's alleged efforts to hide classified documents from investigators and his own attorney while allegedly pretending to cooperate with a National Archives demand that he return highly sensitive materials he took from his time in the White House.

MSNBC host Joy Reid took on a C-SPAN caller who opposed the use of the term "Black" to label African-Americans.

During Tuesday's Washington Journal program, Reid fielded a question from a woman.

Former congressman Jim McDermott moved from retirement in Seattle to a new life in a "safe house" in France, and he's encouraging friends back in the U.S. to consider doing the same.

The Washington State Democrat served 28 years in Congress and 14 years in the state legislature, but the 87-year-old traded a comfortable life in a home overlooking Elliott Bay and the Cascade Mountains for a simpler life in a tiny village near Bordeaux – where he feels strangely at home, reported the Washington Post.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) is now floating conspiracy theories about the FBI protecting President Joe Biden — despite the fact that the current FBI director was appointed by former President Donald Trump.

During an interview on Fox Business, Comer was asked about the recent indictment of one-time FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who allegedly lied about President Joe Biden receiving a multimillion-dollar bribe from Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said Tuesday that he opposes the Alabama Supreme Court's decision that embryos are children — after initially supporting it.

ABC's Rachel Scott caught up with Tuberville outside the Capitol.

Former President Donald Trump has been widely blamed for forcing longtime Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to announce her resignation, and he's shared plans for a shakeup that would install far-right loyalists, including his own daughter-in-law Lara Trump, to high-ranking positions in the national party.

But this could all blow up in his face, experts said Tuesday.

The oldest family-owned bar in Madison, Wisconsin, poured its last drinks for customers this month. For more than nine decades, the Silver Dollar Tavern served “everyone from the gutter to the Governor’s office,” according to locals.

Now, the bar is shuttering after a multi-decade campaign to buy and demolish the bar led by a Republican who's now campaigning for a seat in the U.S. Senate.