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'It was to screw me': Giuliani whines about being hit with 10K bond amid bankruptcy

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani complained Tuesday after being ordered to put up collateral for a $10,000 secured bond in an Arizona case about "fake electors."

Soon after appearing remotely before a judge in Maricopa County, Giuliani spoke on his podcast about the requirement for a bond as he faces bankruptcy proceedings. Arizona officials alleged Giuliani participated in a scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election with fake electors.

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'He's probably tired': Ex-Trump lawyer's excuse for why he didn't testify

Donald Trump did not testify Tuesday before his defense rested in the Manhattan hush money trial, despite him vowing to take the stand to clear his name of the 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money scheme that he's accused of.

One of his former lawyers suggested it could be due to exhaustion.

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‘Incomprehensible’: Filing reveals more classified docs found at Mar-a-Lago after FBI raid

Donald Trump had more classified documents at Mar-a-Lago that were not originally found when the FBI completed its execution of a search warrant, according to a recently unsealed 87-page court document in special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump in the Espionage Act case. Trump faces 40 felony charges in the case, including 32 directly related to classified documents..

“No excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote, according to Forbes. Howell “notes the government forced Trump’s attorneys to search Trump’s properties even after FBI investigators searched Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.”

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'That's not what's going on': CNN cuts off Trump speech for fact-check

Donald Trump spoke out in a rambling speech Tuesday outside of the Manhattan courtroom that CNN found so objectionable it cut the rant midway through.

"As they say, there is no crime," Trump said, repeating soundbites he brought up multiple times. "It should be dismissed before you have a verdict. But they have a judge that's, let's say, complicated."

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'Miserable performance': How MAGA lawyer’s own emails may have shredded his credibility

Donald Trump's defense in his hush money trial rested on Tuesday after pro-Trump attorney Robert Costello finished his testimony and the former president decided not to testify. Final arguments in the trial are expected after Memorial Day.

Costello was combative in court, clashing with Justice Juan Merchan. Trump's defense team used Costello as a witness in the hope of damaging the credibility of former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, but according to the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, it was Costello's own credibility that was damaged by his testimony.

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Mike Johnson reeling after aides' resignations strip him of 'brain trust': report

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) enjoyed a major victory when lawmakers — including a long list of Democrats — decisively voted down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) proposal to oust him from his position. It remains to be seen whether Republicans will keep or lose their small House majority in the November elections, but for now, Johnson's speakership appears to be safe.

However, Johnson is still facing his share of challenges.

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Don Jr. calls jurors 'clowns' and blames them for Trump not testifying

Donald Trump didn't testify at the end of his Manhattan criminal trial, despite teasing multiple times that he would do so.

When asked about this discrepancy outside the courtroom, eldest Trump son Donald Trump Jr. told MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard the prosecution was a "sham" to begin with.

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Trump set to attend Big Oil fundraiser following quid pro quo offer

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump will reportedly attend a fundraising luncheon organized by leading oil and gas executives in Houston on Wednesday, following a controversial offer he made to the industry to roll back environmental regulations in return for $1 billion in campaign donations—with two companies associated with both events.

At his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, Trump told a group of roughly two dozen oil and gas executives that $1 billion would be a "deal" for them, given how much money they would make in reduced taxes and regulations if he is elected, TheWashington Post first reported.

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Judge threatens to cut Giuliani's mic as he rants about attempt to 'destroy Donald Trump'

An Arizona judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to surrender within 30 days. The former New York City mayor is facing charges related to a fake elector scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

In a Tuesday Maricopa County Superior Court hearing, prosecutors argued that Giuliani had evaded being served with indictment papers.

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Mar-a-Lago hires 136 new foreign workers as Trump seeks immigration crackdown

Mar-a-Lago hired more than 100 foreign workers last year as Donald Trump promises to restrict immigration and round up undocumented migrants for deportation.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee's businesses have long relied on foreign workers, and last year Mar-a-Lago asked the Department of Labor for authorization to hire a total of 136 foreign workers for seasonal work, and all but one request was accepted, reported Newsweek.

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Trump's biggest campaign promise would cause 'economic disaster': analysis

Donald Trump's promised crackdown on immigration could inflict mass misery and economic calamity, according to a new analysis.

The former president's radical plans for a potential second term in office include barring entry from select Muslim-majority nations, denying all asylum claims and rounding up millions of undocumented immigrants for deportation, and economic analyst Robert Shapiro warned in a new Washington Monthly column that these policies would set off an "economic disaster."

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Dog-kicking Trump supporter threatened to kill Hillary Clinton and Secret Service: DOJ

A supporter of former President Donald Trump was arrested this week after he threatened to kill Secret Service agents who were investigating his QAnon-style social media posts where he said he wanted to murder former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Local news station WFLA reports that 57-year-old Eric Evan Brown, a resident of White Springs, Florida, was arrested after the Secret Service paid him a visit when they determined that he was the author of a Twitter post in which he declared, "Remember that Mr President Donald Trump I will kill this whole f---ing country to get my f---ing pedophiles that rape the children of God I will kill you Hillary."

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Republican calls for economic ‘shut down’ while accusing Biden of Marxist agenda

U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) is calling on Congress to "shut down" the U.S. economy over the southern border, while accusing President Joe Biden of Marxist policies and denouncing his border legislation that Donald Trump ordered killed months ago.

Congresswoman Spartz on Tuesday spoke to Fox News Business host Maria Bartiromo in a rambling interview on the Senate bipartisan border bill that Donald Trump ordered killed. Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is one again trying to pass it.

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