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Ex-con Michael Cohen warns Peter Navarro 'prison steals your soul'

Donald Trump's former fixer has some sobering advice for Peter Navarro as he prepares for his first night behind bars: prison is "no cakewalk."

Trump's one-time attorney and fixer Michael Cohen — who notoriously served time behind bars for tax evasion, making perjurious statements and campaign finance violations — appeared on CNN's "Out Front" to warn the ex-president's former aide Navarro about what's in store.

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Selling Mar-a-Lago is Trump's best hope of meeting $464M bond deadline: real estate expert

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida estate could be the key to him paying the $464 million bond he owes in his New York fraud trial — but he needs to move fast, a real estate expert said Tuesday.

Though the former president’s real estate is expansive, he won't have time to sell before the Monday deadline set for him to pay the bond, Bess Freedman, CEO of the luxury estate firm Brown, Harris Stevens, told CNN’s Erin Burnett.

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'Shocking': Ex-prosecutor slams Trump's SCOTUS claim he has 'voluminous' evidence of fraud

In his effort to prove to the U.S. Supreme Court that presidents should be immune from criminal prosecution, Donald Trump on Tuesday touted that he had "voluminous information" that the 2020 presidential election was "tainted by extensive fraud and irregularities."

But the claim that the former president had ample proof that his reelection was being usurped in favor of Democratic nominee Joe Biden doesn't square with former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann.

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Judge Cannon could be 'removed from the case altogether' after latest stunt: report

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon could be removed from a classified documents case against Donald Trump, according to a report.

On Monday, Cannon shocked experts by proposing jury instructions that would suggest that a president had sole authority to declare documents a personal record, essentially dismissing the case against Trump.

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'Beyond question': Expert says latest filing shows Cannon must be taken off Trump case

Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday asked both parties in Donald Trump's classified documents case to weigh in on jury instructions — a move that was roundly criticized as "legally insane" and "utterly nuts."

Cannon asked lawyers to file jury instructions on two topics — having jurors review a record kept by Trump and decide if "it is personal or presidential using the definitions set forth in the Presidential Records Act," and if jurors believe the former president can rightfully consider the documents his personal property.

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‘Stay tuned’: Melania Trump makes rare campaign appearance — but won’t promise more

Former First Lady Melania Trump made a rare appearance alongside her husband Tuesday — but declined to say whether she would be seen more as his presidential campaign heats up.

Following voting in the Florida Republican primary, former President Donald Trump addressed reporters. However, it was Melania Trump who received one of the first questions.

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'Whack jobs and morons': Republican hits back at Trump allies trying to oust him from job

Wisconsin GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos claims a "huge number" of signature forgeries contributed to an effort to recall him from office — calling the organizers of the recall effort "whack jobs and morons" in comments he made this Tuesday.

Vos said private investigators he's hired looked through pages of petition documents submitted by a group of Trump supporters who are looking to oust him and found the forgeries. At issue is his refusal to overturn the state's 2020 election results.

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'Worked so far': Legal experts flatten Trump's SCOTUS immunity argument

In his Tuesday filing to the U.S. Supreme Court, Donald Trump continues to argue that without absolute immunity from criminal prosecution every president would be subject to bribery — if not fully hindered from making any decisions.

And legal analysts continue to call the theory bunk.

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Trump makes case for Supreme Court to grant him immunity from prosecution

Donald Trump filed a brief to the Supreme Court Tuesday before it begins to hear his claim that he should be immune from criminal prosecution for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

His argument has already been dismissed by two courts. The High Court has agreed to hear his appeal starting April 25.

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'Completely wacko': Expert slams Trump for suing ABC News over rape claim

Donald Trump is facing criticism for suing ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation after the host said the ex-president had been found liable for “rape.”

“In an interview on ‘This Week,’ Stephanopoulos pressed Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, a rape survivor, over her continued support of Trump after a jury found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $88 million for battery and defamation,” CNN reports. “Stephanopoulos asserted multiple times in the interview with Mace that Trump had ‘raped’ Carroll.”

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Biden targets wavering Latinos in 'Sun Belt' battlegrounds

US President Joe Biden headed to the battleground states of Nevada and Arizona on Tuesday to shore up flagging support among Latino voters as his election battle with Donald Trump heats up.

The historically Democratic Latino community is increasingly leaning towards Republican Trump, spelling trouble for Biden in two states that he narrowly won in 2020 and must win again in November.

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Fox News pulls the plug on Peter Navarro in final press conference before prison

Fox News cut off Peter Navarro's final press conference on Tuesday before he turned himself in to prison for contempt of Congress.

While speaking to reporters outside a federal prison, Navarro called his four-month incarceration a "little story." The former adviser to Donald Trump was sentenced to prison after he refused to cooperate with the Jan. 6 Committee.

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Judge Aileen Cannon's 'two pages of crazy' sliced up by former federal prosecutor

Donald Trump's documents trial in Florida continues to be delayed, with Judge Aileen Cannon failing to rule on a number of key issues. According to former federal prosecutor and Alabama Law School professor Joyce Vance, Cannon's filing late Monday night makes things even worse.

In just two pages, Cannon suggested jury questions that legal experts have dubbed "insane," as Cannon wants the jury to consider whether Trump can consider top-secret national security documents, including nuclear secrets, to be his personal property.

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