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Fani Willis needs to step aside amid fear scandal could kill Trump case: ethics expert

Many experts have said there is little reason Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis' case against Donald Trump will be torpedoed by allegations that she hired a romantic partner, defense attorney Nathan Wade, as a special prosecutor.

But Georgia State legal ethics professor Clark Cunningham is not so sure — and, in The New York Times, argued Willis should hand off the case to avoid endangering it.

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Rudy Giuliani to testify under oath as bankruptcy case moves forward

Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy case is moving forward with a meeting of creditors set for next month.

In a notice on Wednesday, the court made Giuliani's bankruptcy case official.

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Local paper profiles motley crew Trump brought out in New Hampshire town

The center of Chris Shaw's calf is emblazoned with his love for Trump.

In deep black ink, the former president's smiling face is tattooed, standing in front of the Statue of Liberty and an American flag.

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Senate GOP meetings devolve into 'shouting matches' as tensions flare: report

The Senate GOP is breaking down into finger-pointing and "shouting matches" as tensions flare between the leadership and hardliners about passing a border and foreign aid deal, reported Punchbowl News on Wednesday.

"Private Senate GOP meetings have devolved into testy exchanges over immigration, Donald Trump and Ukraine, including Tuesday’s closed policy lunch," said the report. In particular, a handful of Senate Republicans revolted against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), "questioning whether the Kentucky Republican is using a tentative immigration and border security package as an end run with Democrats to help push through more money for Ukraine."

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Trump’s next 'significant hurdle' is a 'decisive showdown at the Supreme Court'

Donald Trump moved another step closer to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination on Tuesday when he defeated former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley by roughly 11 percent in the New Hampshire primary. However, Haley has vowed to stay in the race and compete with Trump in the South Carolina primary.

In a report Wednesday, Politico's Erica Orden stressed that although Trump appears to be "on an easy path to the nomination," he is still facing a "significant hurdle" and a "potentially decisive showdown at the Supreme Court."

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Trump faces third defamation trial — and this time damages could be devastating: lawyer

Donald Trump could be hit by a third defamation suit after he attacked E. Jean Carroll again in a January 17 press conference — and this time the financial hit could be devastating, a lawyer said

Carroll’s lawyer has a transcript of the press event in which the former president repeated claims that Carroll lied about him sexually assaulting her in the 1990s, Newsweek reported.

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Trump is 'about to get rocked by a double-bang of explosive legal judgments': analysis

Former President Donald Trump is riding high after a victory in the New Hampshire primary over his last major remaining opponent for the 2024 presidential nomination. But he shouldn't get too excited, wrote Greg Walters for Vice, because he is about to be in a world of legal hurt.

Trump is notoriously facing down four criminal indictments at the federal and state level, but those trials are still a long way off. However, two major civil cases with huge potential ramifications for him are on track to be decided very soon.

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Watch: GOP lawmaker rants about Hunter Biden when asked about Trump's election losses

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) broke down into a conspiracy-laden rant about Hunter Biden when confronted on CNN about why he is putting so much trust in former President Donald Trump when he appears to be costing his party elections.

This comes after Trump pulled off a victory in the New Hampshire primary against his final major remaining challenger, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. The latter has vowed to stay in the race, but political analysts are increasingly convinced Trump has the nomination wrapped up.

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'Bad night for Trump' as New Hampshire revealed 'cracks in the armor': MSNBC's McCaskill

Donald Trump may have won New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation Republican primary, but MSNBC's Claire McCaskill said his tighter-than-expected margin of victory over Nikki Haley revealed some "cracks in the armor."

The former president easily defeated Haley, who vowed to remain the race after doing a bit better than expected, and the "Morning Joe" contributor said Trump appears weaker in numerous ways.

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Watch: CNN's Kasie Hunt cringes after watching footage of Trump's New Hampshire speech

CNN's Kasie Hunt on Wednesday visibly cringed after watching footage of former President Donald Trump's victory speech in New Hampshire.

The clip in question revolved around Trump telling Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) that he "must really hate" fellow South Carolina Republican Nikki Haley to not endorse her presidential bid despite the fact that Haley was the governor who appointed Scott as senator in 2013.

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Trump compared to 'Pharma Bro' in latest filing in New York fraud case

New York attorney general Letitia James cited "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli's lifetime ban from the pharmaceutical industry to justify a similar penalty against Donald Trump.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday unanimously affirmed the lifetime ban against Shkreli, who was also ordered to repay $64.6 million because of his antitrust violations, and James told Manhattan Supreme Court justice Arthur Engoron that new precedent also fit her case against the former president, reported The Messenger.

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'Drop the crap': Conservative hammers GOP voters for being 'a decadent and perverse cult'

Matt Lewis, a conservative columnist for The Daily Beast, is not happy with Republican primary voters for once again making Donald Trump the party's presumptive presidential nominee.

In his latest piece, Lewis argued that Trump's twin triumphs in Iowa and New Hampshire show that his 2016 primary victory in a divided field was no fluke and that Trump is whom the GOP base actually wants as its champion.

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Trump 'freaking out' and 'untethered from reality' after New Hampshire win: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough applauded Nikki Haley for staying in the Republican presidential primary race in the face of Donald Trump's "meltdown."

Trump easily defeated Haley in New Hampshire, although not by quite as big of a margin as polling suggested, and he lashed out at his remaining GOP challenger after she declared she would face off against him in her home state of South Carolina and possibly beyond.

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