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Donald Trump targeted Jews who vote Democratic Monday, barely days after the criminally-indicted ex-president threatened there would be a “bloodbath” if voters do not put him back in the Oval Office.

His remarks, which include claiming Jewish Democrats “hate” Israel and their own religion, were quickly labeled antisemitic.

A political race in Ohio is putting Donald Trump's influence over the Republican Party to the test after he endorsed car dealership owner Bernie Moreno in a three-way race against State Senator Matt Dolan and Secretary of State Frank LaRose. All candidates are Republicans.

The polls show the race to be close, with single digits separating the candidates as they begin to ramp up mudslinging, with Moreno's allies accusing LaRose of being soft on transgender rights and LaRose's team bringing up a recent report by the Associated Press that accused Moreno of being registered on a hookup website.

Donald Trump's rhetoric is growing increasingly violent, says one former lawmaker, and it might be due to the psychological impact the four trials are having on him.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, former Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, explained that it has been evident that Trump "is a deeply insecure man," and it doesn't take a "psychologist or psychiatrist" to see it. Having to admit, as he did Monday, that he doesn't have cash on hand to pay the $464 million bond owed after his New York fraud trial might make him feel another public humiliation, she said.

Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba is banking on the $464 million civil debt racked up in the New York fraud case being thrown out.

"Despite the fact that witnesses frankly had said that they were great clients, we all made money, they did nothing wrong, we got slammed with this egregious number, and I'm confident we'll overturn it," she said during an interview with the online podcast X22 Report, which was reported by Newsweek.

New York state Supreme Court Judge Juan M. Merchan ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump cannot use a "presence-of-counsel" defense at his upcoming hush money trial.

Trump has asked the court for permission to claim he committed 34 felony counts during the "presence" of lawyers and believed the actions were legal. However, Trump did not intend to relinquish attorney-client privilege as required in a traditional advice-of-counsel defense.

JustSecurity reporter Adam Klasfeld reported Monday that four potential brokers said they couldn't find anyone to take Donald Trump up on a bid to offer his real estate empire as collateral for a nearly $500 million bond, citing a deposition from the former president's lawyer Alan Garten.

There were also about 30-plus "surety companies he says Trump Org. unsuccessfully approached," Klasfeld added on social media.

A social media account has released a cache of documents that it claims to be from a Michigan sheriff who worked to overturn President Joe Biden's 2020 victory in the state. The documents include sensitive information from Dominion Voting Systems.

The X account @SheriffLeaf uses a photo of Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, though it is not confirmed that Leaf, who has investigated the 2020 result for years, is actually connected to the account. It shared the documents in posts on Sunday and Monday.

Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Fulton County racketeering case are demanding that Judge Scott McAfee reconsider his decision that District Attorney Fani Willis can remain on the case.

McAfee ruled last week that, if lead prosecutor Nathan Wade is removed from the case, Willis could remain. He had been considering an ethics complaint from the defendants concerning a romantic relationship between the two.

Attorneys for Donald Trump declared Monday that he is unable to secure the $464 million bond due in his New York fraud case, saying that turning over the entire amount is "a practical impossibility" — and that development could lead to his New York empire becoming property of the state, a legal expert said.

New York Attorney General Letitia James could put a "padlock" on Trump Tower, legal analyst Glenn Kirschner told MSNBC, effectively locking the former president out of his iconic Fifth Avenue building and making it the property of New York.

Conservative social media influencer Isabella Maria DeLuca was arrested over the weekend in Irvine, California, for her participation in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

The warrant, issued by Judge Robin Meriweather, was issued at the end of February, charging DeLuca with "theft of government property and aiding and abetting theft of government property, entering or remaining in restricted buildings or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in the Capitol Building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol Building."

Award-winning presidential historian Michael Beschloss sounded the alarm after Donald Trump's "bloodbath" threat over the weekend, warning that his remarks echo those that led to the rise and installation of fascism in pre-World War II Germany and Italy.

"That's how fascism and totalitarianism and in Germany's case the Holocaust came to Germany, which had been a country where there were big institutions of democracy until, as you well know, the early 1930s," Beschloss said on MSNBC Monday to "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski (video below). "In a way of Donald Trump has done us all a favor, because if you and I had been talking, Mika, let's say 20 years ago, and they've been talking about what would have seemed like a very abstract and distant subject of how fascism and dictatorship might come to America, you probably would have been more wiser."

Speaking on "Jack," a podcast that focuses on the prosecutions being led by special counsel Jack Smith, former FBI deputy director Andy McCabe and legal analyst Allison Gill explained why the Justice Department isn't indicting Donald Trump's co-conspirators yet for allegedly helping him defraud the United States with his effort to illegally remain in power.

The 2020 election case Trump faces isn't exclusively about him, as several high-ranking officials, activists, legal advisers, and campaign strategists were part of a move to overturn the vote.