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Donald Trump's hardcore supporters did not take it well on Thursday when Georgia Judge Scott McAfee issued a 14-page ruling reaffirming that the former president should stand trial on RICO charges for attempted 2020 election interference after his lawyers asked for yet another dismissal of the charges.

Attorneys for Trump maintained the charges should be dismissed on First Amendment grounds, which McAfee dismissed out of hand by writing, "Although the First Amendment is 'a broad umbrella that shelters all political points of view and shields a wide range of avenues for expression,' free speech — including political speech — is not without restriction."

Former President Donald Trump's attorney in his Georgia election racketeering case has vowed to keep pushing an argument slapped down by the judge Thursday.

Steve Sadow took to social media to share his response to Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee's rejection of the Trump team's bid to toss the case on First Amendment grounds, ruling freedom of speech doesn't cover "criminal activity."

Lawyers for the co-founders of Donald Trump's social media company will depose the former president later this month in regards to the dispute over who owns the Trump Media & Technology Group.

As Reuters points out, the deposition will take place on April 15th, which is the same day jury selection is scheduled to begin for his New York hush money criminal trial. Depositions are sometimes rescheduled due to scheduling conflicts.

New York Attorney General Letitia James submitted a filing on Thursday asking for proof that the company covering Donald Trump's $175 million bond in his fraud case is actually "financially sound."

James told the New York City civil court — where Trump was found liable for damages upwards of $464 million — that she had serious concerns about Knight Speciality Insurance Company's agreement with the former president.

Harrison Floyd, a former director of Black Voices for Trump, blasted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for trying to "control men by fear" by charging him with a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Floyd made the remarks during the Doug in Exile podcast on Thursday. The host asked Donald Trump's co-defendant how race came into play in the case.

Former President Donald Trump has been using apocalyptic rhetoric to describe the state of the American economy, but CBNC has run the numbers and determined the former president's claims simply aren't in touch with reality.

CNBC's piece starts off by noting the competing claims by President Joe Biden, who says the economy is the best in the world right now, and by Trump, who describes the economy as a "cesspool."

Donald Trump attempted to dismiss his case in Fulton County, Georgia, on First Amendment grounds — but Judge Scott McAfee on Thursday denied the motion.

In a 14-page ruling, McAfee explained that the First Amendment is not the get-out-of-jail-free card that Trump seems to think it is.

Judge Aileen Cannon, an appointee of Donald Trump's who faces accusations of bias, has allowed the submission of a new brief trashing the former president's challenge to special counsel Jack Smith's appointment, court records and reports show.

Law&Crime revealed Thursday that the Florida federal court judge overseeing Trump's classified documents case allowed experts to submit a motion that "positively pummeled the ex-president."

How does a Democrat-registered lawyer with a lengthy roster of elite clientele become a Florida Republican with a single client accused of federal election interference and paying hush money to an adult movie star?

This is the question the New York Times sought to answer in its lengthy profile of former President Donald Trump's top attorney Todd Blanche, which includes warning against drinking the Kool-Aid.

Former President Donald Trump's loud support for Jan. 6 rioters represents a dark attempt to "convince followers to risk their own skins in the future" on the former president's behalf, a new opinion piece posits. It then asks the question: why do they let him?

Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte noted Thursday that while Trump floats promises of pardons, he does not offer material support to the more than 1,300 people who have been charged with crimes related to the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.

Former President Donald Trump drew scrutiny during his first term in the Oval Office for owning a hotel in Washington D.C. where foreign government officials would often spend lavishly in an apparent attempt to court favor.

But Vox's Abdallah Fayyad believes that Trump may have found an even more lucrative way for foreign governments to buy his influence in a hoped-for second term: Namely, through shares of his Trump Media, the parent company of his Truth Social platform.

Former President Donald Trump floated the possibility that President Joe Biden was using cocaine when he delivered his State of the Union address this year.

In a Thursday interview, Hugh Hewitt asked the former president about debating Biden ahead of the 2024 election.

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani is warning there might be more classified documents in Donald Trump's possession — and another FBI raid might be on the horizon, Newsweek reported.

Among the revelations in the stolen document case is that Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler, in an interview with CNN, said he helped Trump aide Walt Nauta deliver boxes of the documents to a plane "in June 2022 — the same day that Trump and his attorney were meeting with the Justice Department at Mar-a-Lago about the classified documents."