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Trump co-defendant subpoenaed in Arizona election probe: report

Michael Roman, a former campaign aide for Donald Trump, has reportedly been subpoenaed in connection to an investigation into a "fake electors" plot in Arizona.

ABC News first reported the subpoena. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has previously confirmed her office was investigating a plot to use "fake electors" to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state.

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Trump campaign says it will deploy ‘soldiers’ to polling places

The Trump campaign says it plans to change tactics from 2020 when Joe Biden beat the then-incumbent president by more than 7 million votes, and this time go on "offense" by having "soldiers" and "poll watchers" at polling places.

Despite the Trump campaign's relentless claims of voter fraud, more than 60 court rulings found those claims to be unsupported by facts: there was no significant voter fraud. Last year The Brookings Institution cited an extensive report from the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which found, for example, voter "fraud in Texas amounted to 0.000096% of all ballots cast."

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'It's the End Times': Mike Lindell says God will rapture him over voting machines

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell this week said God could initiate the End Times if he is unable to abolish voting machines.

On his FrankSpeech platform, Lindell referred to a Georgia court case about voting machines.

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Morning Joe stunned by depths of Trump campaign cash problems: 'They didn't have money?'

Donald Trump is having the same money troubles heading into the 2024 election that some of his allies believe cost him re-election four years ago.

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire stunned "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough with a revelation about the depths of his fundraising issues, with that cash crunch forcing the cancellation of a campaign rally and keeping the former president holed up at Mar-a-Lago as president Joe Biden steps up his attacks.

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Giuliani tells Mar-a-Lago pals he lives in a 'nightmare world' after defamation ruling

America's Mayor is moaning to Mar-a-Lago cohorts that he's stuck in a "nightmare world" after a defamation ruling forced him to declare bankruptcy, according to a new report.

Rudy Giuliani said he "wakes up every day and can't believe it's real," the New York Post's Page Six reported Monday.

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'Be worried about me': Michael Cohen warns Trump to fear his hush money trial testimony

Former President Donald Trump should be worried about the evidence stacked up against him, said his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen on MSNBC Monday — including the evidence Cohen himself plans to bring to bear.

Trump is facing down the first of his four criminal trials next month: the hush money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. And Cohen, who has been described as a key witness in the case, told anchor Jen Psaki that case is strong.

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'This is embarrassing': Jeanine Pirro ruthlessly fact-checked over Trump legal analysis

Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News pundit who is also a former judge, raised eyebrows Monday when she made a strange legal comparison between former President Donald Trump and two notorious convicted fraudsters.

Pirro complained that Trump had gotten an unfair deal in his New York City civil fraud trial — in which he was found liable for $464 million, but will be allowed to pay a $175 million bond as he pursues an appeal — in comparison to Bernie Madoff, the perpetrator of the world's largest Ponzi scheme, and Sam Bankman-Fried, a cryptocurrency "wunderkind" who could be sentenced this week to up to 100 years in prison.

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'Policing the rhetoric': DA says hush money judge is Trump's perfect foil

Donald Trump may be a stable genius, but Judge Juan Manuel Merchan is proving to be the stable hand who might be the former president's perfect foil.

That's according to to Miriam “Mimi” Rocah, a former federal prosecutor and current Westchester County District Attorney, who appeared Monday on CNN's "Out Front" to laud the New York City jurist overseeing Trump's criminal hush money case.

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'No more tricks': Trump warned his delay tactics have run out in hush money case

When a five-judge appeals court panel on Monday slashed Donald Trump's $464 million bond in the New York civil fraud case down to $175 million — and gave him ten more days to pay up, legal experts were astonished by "the major lifeline.”

Former New York State Assistant Attorney General Tristan Snell "who successfully prosecuted the $25 million Trump University case," slammed the order as "special treatment," while ex-federal prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said, "The verdict is in: the rules, the laws, and the Constitution do not apply to Donald Trump the way they apply to you and me."

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'Pressed up against a wall': Trump biographer says his bond problems are far from over

Former President Donald Trump caught a break on Monday when a New York appeals court drastically slashed the amount he must post in bond to appeal his more than $450 million civil fraud judgment for manipulating property values — as well as 10 additional days to produce that money.

But that doesn't mean this whole matter is settled, said longtime Trump biographer Tim O'Brien on MSNBC's "The ReidOut." On the contrary, it's just beginning.

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Trump campaign hopes to flip Michigan's Black and Hispanic Biden voters

Former President Donald Trump has the swing state of Michigan on his mind and a particular voting bloc he'd like to sway, according to new reports.

State GOP have been urged to make strides to win over “nontraditional Republicans voters and traditional Democrat voters — specifically Black voters — around the city and state, state GOP leaders said on Monday, according to the Associated Press.

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'He lied about his sex life': Nicolle Wallace says truth will be exposed at Trump trial

Former President Donald Trump faces a brand new challenge in the current string of legal cases against him, said MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace on Monday: the truth.

Wallace pointed to the civil property valuation fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James and the upcoming criminal hush money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

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Trump co-defendant can ask for intervention in Georgia racketeering case: ruling

The Georgia judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's election racketeering case ruled his co-defendant can pursue intervention from a higher court, according to court filings and a new report.

Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled in favor of a motion from Harrison Floyd, the leader of Black Voices for Trump, who wants the Georgia Court of Appeals to intervene in the case, according to a court filing shared on X Monday.

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