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The former FBI informant charged with making false statements in relation to the investigation into Hunter Biden's business dealings — and any connection with President Joe Biden — has been ordered to remain behind bars as he awaits trial.

Prosecutors raised concerns that Alexander Smirnov, who the Department of Justice has claimed has ties to Russian intelligence, could flee the country, the Associated Press reported.

After stating "I'm not happy" about changes coming to the Republican National Committee with chair Ronna McDaniel's resignation announcement Monday, an RNC board member stated donors can't be asked to foot Donald Trump's legal bills — only to be reminded on-air that it had already happened.

During an interview with CNN's Dana Bash, Henry Barbour of Mississippi explained his misgivings about Trump stacking the leadership with MAGA loyalists like his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, and complained the RNC's mission is to support all GOP candidates — not just the embattled ex-president.

"I'm willing to take a stand that may not be popular with some right now," he told the CNN host. "The RNC has one job, Dana, and that's to win elections and we should spend our finite resources on political operations and actually winning elections and paying any candidate's legal fees, or frankly any other outside fees or expenses is not the RNC's job. "

He continued that after asking donors to send their $28, it "would be totally misleading to take that money and then go and spend it with some big fat law firm's legal fees for something that has nothing to do with winning the election cycle."

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is asking the Supreme Court of the State of New York to issue an order blocking the disclosure of jurors' names in his upcoming trial against former President Donald Trump.

In a court filing flagged by Just Security legal reporter Adam Klasfeld, Bragg argued that Trump's "conduct in this and other matters — including his extensive history of attacking jurors in other proceedings — presents a significant risk of juror harassment and intimidation that warrants reasonable protective measures to ensure the integrity of those proceedings."

Conservative Marc Thiessen warned Fox News viewers on Monday that former President Donald Trump appears to be struggling to win over key voters in his third run for the White House.

Although Trump bested former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley easily this week in her home state of South Carolina, Thiessen noted that it was still striking that 40 percent of voters in the state voted against him, even though the 2024 Republican primary essentially appears to be over.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones lashed out at Elon Musk, the owner of X, and claimed he had been "massively censored" by the billionaire's social media platform.

On his Monday InfoWars program, Jones said that he had important news.

Donald Trump unleashed a furious rant against "gangs and gang members" who he says are "pouring into our Country from South America, and from all over the World" from the U.S.-Mexico border — and he took aim at President Joe Biden who he said was letting them in.

"They are being FORCED out of their Countries, in particular Venezuela and Mexico, and DEPOSITED into the Good Ole’ USA by the tens of thousands. But here’s the 'wrinkle.' THEY REFUSE TO TAKE THESE CRIMINALS BACK," Trump wrote in his usual erratic style.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) suggested that House Republicans might disrupt the State of the Union address to pressure President Joe Biden to accept their legislative priorities.

The Donald Trump ally warned that congressional Republicans might rescind an invitation to address the joint session on March 7 as leverage to force Biden to accept border legislation favored by conservatives after a bipartisan bill failed in the U.S. Senate.

Donald Trump's lawyers filed a "notice of appeal" in the New York fraud trial Monday, but an expert said it isn't worth the paper it is printed on if he doesn't pay the filing fees.

Taking to social media on Monday after the news broke, MSNBC legal analyst and host Katie Phang explained that Trump would need to pay up before his appeal could even begin.

Matthew Hurtt, the chairman of the Virginia-based Arlington County Republican Committee, has been taking the brunt from Trump supporters who feel they're being ripped off by WinRed, the political donations platform endorsed by the former president.

Hurtt tells CNBC that he's received numerous emails from donors who are demanding that the Arlington County GOP stop making recurring withdrawals from their accounts — despite the fact that his organization has not been on the receiving end of any such donations.

Right-wing attorney Kenneth Chesebro concealed dozens of damning posts on a secret Twitter account — and failed to share them with Michigan prosecutors, according to a bombshell report Monday.

CNN KFile linked Chesebro to a secret "BadgerPundit" account on the platform X, which the attorney told investigators that he did not use, and dozens of the posts he kept from prosecutors contradict statements he made about his role in the Donald Trump election subversion scheme.

Speaking with CNN's Jim Accosta on Monday, former Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) suggested comments Donald Trump made over the weekend — which the CNN host called "bonkers" — are exactly why the former president has been ducking debates with former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC).

Acosta shared a clip of Trump telling a predominately Black audience over the weekend that Black voters identify with him due to his criminal charges and bizarrely added, "The mug shot, we’ve all seen the mug shot, and you know who embraced it more than anybody else? The Black population. It’s incredible. You see Black people walking around with my mug shot, you know they do shirts."

The co-hosts of "The View" started Monday off with a recap of Donald Trump's comments about people of color in speeches over the weekend.

Trump told crowds that he is getting greater support in the African American community because he was indicted four times on 91 charges — implying that people of color now relate to him because he claims he's victimized by the criminal justice system.

A tech company backed by one of Donald Trump's former lawyers may be violating Georgia law by facilitating mass challenges to voter registrations.

EagleAI, which was founded right after the 2020 election, pulls data from voter rolls to allow anyone to search for potential errors on registration forms, and then it automatically fills out challenges that are sent to county election boards by local volunteers, reported The Guardian.