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The security surveillance dump announced this week that many Republicans claim will show the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a mostly peaceful affair is about to blow up in their faces, an analyst wrote Wednesday.

Writing for Salon, Amanda Marcotte says the tactic of releasing the footage as an attempt to absolve those who participated "doesn't seem like the smartest electoral strategy."

Former President Donald Trump might have a secret weapon for taking on President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, warned Heather Digby Parton in an analysis for Salon published Wednesday — exploit the "doom and gloom" of swing voters.

One fascinating bit of challenge to the conventional wisdom of how politics works, however, comes from work that now-MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes did as a young reporter during the 2004 election covering swing voters in Wisconsin, Parton said — and it reveals how Trump could exploit jaded and cynical voters.

Jill Lawrence, a veteran political journalist at publications including USA Today, National Journal and the Associated Press, has written an essay for The Bulwark in which she makes the case that "children are absorbing terrifying lessons" from watching former President Donald Trump.

Lawrence's comments came after absorbing coverage of a recent Trump rally held at a high school gym in Iowa where children wore "FJB" — or "F--k Joe Biden" — merchandise and attendees repeatedly referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as a "ho."

A legal expert warned the U.S. Supreme Court may have cleared a path for Donald Trump to bring an end to all of his criminal and civil trials if he's re-elected president.

Trump has emerged as the clear frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, despite facing 91 criminal charges in four separate cases and being found liable for fraud and sexual abuse.

Two years after he was acquitted of murdering two people during a police shooting protest in 2020, a strategist claims Kyle Rittenhouse looks to be preparing the ground to enter politics.

Democratic strategist Max Burns says a new book by Rittenhouse, published this week and titled "Acquitted," is less about sharing his experience — and more about Republicans trying to launch him into a political career.

Former President Donald Trump is in a legal quagmire over the gag order in the 2020 election interference case, wrote Ruth Marcus for The Washington Post — and it's entirely his own fault.

The former president, she noted, has spent months attacking court officers in all of his cases and sending not-so-thinly-veiled threats like "IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!" His suggestion that Gen. Mark Milley be executed and his branding of his political opponents as "vermin" are all part and parcel of this mindset — but when it comes to courts, they don't take kindly to being threatened.

Days before Argentinians elected far-right candidate Javier Milei to the presidency, Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) recorded a video endorsement of Milei in which she referred to Argentina as having "one race."

Salazar, a former Spanish-language TV news anchor who is of Cuban descent, recorded the video endorsement in Spanish, saying, "We want [Argentina] to be one of the best countries in the world, because it’s what they deserve. A country that has everything. It has soy, it has meat, it has minerals, it has land, it has water, and it has only one culture, only one religion and only one race, completely homogenous."

Trump's plans for reshaping the government if he wins a second term are truly terrifying, a number of legal experts and former government officials told The Guardian.

And those making the warning include the former inspector general of the Department of Justice.

Elon Musk's new lawsuit against a media watchdog has been largely written off by legal experts as a clumsy attempt to bully a critic into silence, but if the complaint isn't dismissed in court it could open the X boss and his company up to potentially ruinous scrutiny.

The suit filed in federal court in Texas accuses Media Matters for America of creating an X account following only fringe content and refreshing the website over and over until it generated ads for major companies juxtaposed with pro-Nazi content, but the watchdog's president Angelo Carusone said they would probably pursue discovery if a judge doesn't dismiss the case first, reported the Washington Post.

Former President Donald Trump suggested, without offering any evidence, that a bribe had cost him a key endorsement from an influential Iowa evangelical leader.

Bob Vander Plaats, leader of the evangelical group Family Leader, told Fox News on Tuesday that he was endorsing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the former president and his other Republican rivals, and Trump lashed out overnight on his Truth Social website.

Judge Aileen Cannon has more opportunities on the horizon to drag out Donald Trump's trial well into next year, as the former president seeks re-election.

The Florida-based federal judge has taken a leisurely pace in the lead-up to Trump's trial in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, and experts told Politico there's virtually no chance the trial will begin as scheduled on May 20 due to her unwillingness to set short deadlines for reviewing evidence in accordance with the Classified Information Procedures Act.

A Harvard psychiatrist has issued a dire new warning about former President Donald Trump's mental state.

In an interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Edsall, Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Psychiatry Leonard Glass argued that Trump's recent rhetoric echoing Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, such as describing his opponents as "vermin," shows he's ready to go even farther in crushing the norms of American democracy than he did in his first term.

On Monday night Mike Johnson visited Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the scene of some of the ex-president's alleged illegal acts for which he is currently facing federal charges, including under the Espionage Act. On Tuesday Trump recorded and posted video praising the Republican Speaker of the House.

"Congratulations to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for having the courage and fortitude to release all of the J6 tapes," Trump said in his self-serving recording (video below), "which will reveal completely what really happened on January 6. Thank you very much Mike, great job."