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Karl Rove wants former President Donald Trump to stop whining about his criminal conviction.

Rove, onetime senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to former President George W. Bush, made this plea for stoicism in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published Thursday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) received an abundance of Democratic support recently when members of Congress overwhelmingly rejected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) proposal to oust him from his position.

But he’s mired in a new controversy — according to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman — after his decision Wednesday to appoint two "hardline Republicans" to the House Intelligence Committee: Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA).

Republicans are building a network to ensure Donald Trump returns to the White House regardless of the November election's outcome.

The former president and dozens of his GOP supporters have been indicted – and some of them have already pleaded guilty – for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, and MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown examined the strategy Republican activists are drawing up to restore him to power.

Former law enforcement officers Aquilino Gonell and Harry Dunn were honored in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, but some Republican lawmakers booed them.

House Speaker Joanna McClinton (D) brought the men to the state capitol and introduced them to the House floor. Republicans responded by booing and hissing. Others simply walked out of the room, the Washington Post reported after speaking to lawmakers.

Conservative podcaster and convicted criminal Steve Bannon laughed about a hearing Thursday that could send him to jail for four months.

About an hour before U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols, an appointee of Donald Trump, was set to hear arguments, Bannon appeared on his War Room podcast with Liberty University Dean Dave Brat.

In 2017 and 2018, former federal prosecutor Ty Cobb was part of the Trump Administration's legal team. But these days, he is vehemently critical of Donald Trump and isn't shy about saying that the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee is unfit to return to the White House.

Cobb has had a lot to say about Trump's legal problems, and he believes that Judge Aileen Cannon has handled the Mar-a-Lago documents case very badly.

As the prosecution in the case of Hunter Biden on charges of purchasing a weapon while he suffered from drug addiction was expected to wrap up, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig expressed skepticism about the possibility of a conviction.

Adding to that, the former federal prosecutor noted that the charges against President Joe Biden's son are based on a law that is so obscure he was unaware of its existence.

Speaking with hosts Kate Bolduan and John Berman, he explained that whether the younger Biden was an actual addict at the time of the purchase may be hard for prosecutors to nail down, which could cause the case to fall apart.

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"I've said publicly, I've never even heard of this law," he confessed. "I was a prosecutor for 14 years: It exists. It gets charged sometimes, but it was seen as a law that we just didn't use. I didn't even know about it because who's to define what is a quote-unquote 'addict' is sort of based on outdated notions of addiction."

"So combine this, combined the defense trying to find this incredibly narrowly like the moment the pen hits the paper with the fact you're in Delaware," co-host Berman interjected.

"Exactly, Honig agreed. "I think look, what is happening here is what we sometimes call jury nullification; you're not allowed as a defense lawyer to stand in front of a jury and say, 'Folks, this case is bogus, you should throw it out.' But you can certainly suggest that to a jury and a jury has the power to do that and I think what Hunter Biden's team is trying to do here is give the defense a hook, give the jury a reason to say, 'We don't like this case, we're going to hang and we're going to go not guilty.'"

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The prosecutor for the Florida county where Donald Trump lives shot down the former president's claims that President Joe Biden was directing the prosecutions against him.

Trump and his allies have been using those claims to justify using the criminal justice system to target Biden and other political enemies should the presumptive Republican nominee return for another term in the White House. But Palm Beach County Attorney Dave Aronberg told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the allegations were absurd and treacherous.

The federal appeals court overseeing U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon would have "no choice" but to remove her from the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case if she ruled with Donald Trump's assertion that special counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed, said former Miami-Dade County court judge Jeff Swartz on CNN.

Swartz in particular slammed Cannon's decision Wednesday to hold a multi-day hearing on Trump's motion to throw out the case — and allow testimony from unrelated third-party right-wing lawyers at that hearing — as well as drag out motions from Smith to impose a gag order on Trump.

Recent polling since Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts has shown him losing support from independent voters but maintaining the potential votes of most Republicans — but that could all change if he finds himself in prison.

That is the opinion of Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, who writes in the New York Times that no one, Donald Trump in particular, should take the early polling after the historic conviction for granted.

Former President Donald Trump recently vowed that he would soon be releasing his positions on potentially restricting access to abortion-related medication should he win a second term in office.

However, CNN reports that Trump still has not released any such plans and has now learned that he has no plans to do so.

A longtime election official in tiny Esmeralda County, Nevada, is facing recall after being accused of being a “clerk of the deep state cabal” because Donald Trump only got 82 percent of the vote of the county in 2020.

According to a deep dive by the New York Times, election official Cindy Elgan has served in her position for over two decades, running as a Republican, but that hasn't stopped some locals in the town of 620 of accusing her of election interference because they believe Trump should have gotten more votes.

That led local Republican Party official and elementary school teacher Mary Jane Zakas, 77, to spearhead a recall drive that gained enough signatures to force Elgan out of her job.

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The report notes that Elgan was confronted by Zakas at her office who presented her with the petition for certification and, according to a video, Zakas first wished her a "blessed day" before submitting the paperwork, saying she was "beyond" wanting to hear how the election process works later adding, "Prophecy says stand your ground and start in your own backyard. I’m sorry it had to come to this.”

With the Times noting that Elgan "flew a flag at her own home that read: 'Trump 2024 — Take America Back,'" that hasn't kept some locals from now referring to her as “Luciferinda.”

According to the report, Elgan has faced an onslaught of criticism since the 2020 Trump election loss, with the Times' Eli Saslow reporting locals have, "...falsely claimed the election was stolen by voting software designed in Venezuela, or by election machines made in China. They accused George Soros of manipulating Nevada’s voter rolls. They blamed 'undercover activists' for stealing ballots out of machines with hot dog tongs. They blamed the Dominion voting machines that the county had been using without incident for two decades, saying they could be hacked with a ballpoint pen to 'flip the vote and swing an entire election in five minutes.' They demanded a future in which every vote in Esmeralda County was cast on paper and then counted by hand."

The report also noted that "Nevada allowed a period of 20 days for voters to reconsider and remove their names from the petition" and that "after that, Elgan’s office would work with the secretary of state to confirm signatures and determine if the petition was successful and whether Elgan still had a job."