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Ron DeSantis’ humiliating defeat in his presidential race against former President Donald Trump isn’t funny to the large group of Floridians who fear their governor’s return — and the entire nation should beware, a new political analysis contends.

Salon’s Chauncey Devega Monday issued a warning about the much-mocked Republican contender who rose to political stardom implementing far-right policies aimed to appease his ultra-conservative base.

Writer E. Jean Carroll, who last week won a second defamation suit against Donald Trump, says she plans to spend the $83.3 million in damages she was awarded in a way that causes "pain" to the former president, she said on ABC's Good Morning America Monday.

“If it’ll cause him pain for me to give money to certain things, that’s my intent," she said.

Former Internal Revenue Service contractor Charles Littlejohn on Monday was sentenced to five years in jail for leaking former President Donald Trump's taxes to the New York Times.

NBC News reports that Littlejohn, who pleaded guilty to illegal tax disclosure this past October, not only leaked Trump's tax documents, but also for Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Donald Trump could be within days of having his real estate empire ordered "dissolved" by a judge in a rarely used penalty for repeatedly lying on financial statements.

Nearly 70 years of cases under New York's powerful anti-fraud law shows that penalty has been imposed only a dozen previous times for scam marketers and con artists, and the former president's family business is the only large business threatened with getting shut down without showing obvious victims or major losses, according to an analysis by the Associated Press.

Should Donald Trump once again become president in 2024, close advisers hope to make changes to the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel that would give him free rein to do as he pleases while in office without fear of ever being prosecuted, according to a report.

The exclusive story from Rolling Stone claims MAGA advisers are working with lawyers to tie the hands of the DOJ by making the independent OLC more beholden to Trump if he takes office again.

Donald Trump made a big mistake going into his second defamation trial with Alina Habba as his attorney, according to a legal expert.

The former president lost his first defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing her and making defamatory denials about her claims, which then resulted in a $5 million penalty. But a second jury last week imposed an $83.3 million penalty for separate defamatory statements he made about her while serving as president.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested two Navy SEALs were to blame after they were lost at sea during a night raid on a ship allegedly carrying Iranian weapons.

According to the Associated Press, Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram slipped and fell while boarding the combatant vessel. A second SEAL, Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers, died after jumping to save Ingram.

Trump family lawyer Clifford Robert lashed out this week at a court-appointed monitor who flagged "errors" and "incomplete" information in the Trump Organization's financial disclosures.

As reported by The Messenger, Robert accused Barbara Jones, who was appointed by Judge Arthur Engoron to oversee the Trump Organization's finances, of unfairly smearing Trump with an "unabashedly self-serving" report that she was using to shake down the legal system to justify charging "exorbitant fees" for her services.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Monday, State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg warned Donald Trump that any attempt to dupe his followers into helping him pay the $83.3 million he owes E. Jean Carroll could result in criminal charges.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski, the prosecutor claimed the former president doesn't have a chance of getting out of paying the defamation damages to the New York writer and suggested he might try to divert money donated to his campaign to avoid shelling out millions from his own pocket.

Appearing on CNN early Monday morning, Roberta Kaplan, the attorney for New York writer E. Jean Carroll laid out her expectations for how Donald Trump will pay the $83.3 million a Manhattan jury awarded her client.

After Carroll described confronting the former president in court — calling him a "nothing" — Kaplan was asked what is next for Trump now that he has to pay up.

According to Kaplan, who is no relation to trial Judge Lewis Kaplan, Trump needs to either pony up the entire amount into a trust while he appeals, or find a bond company to back him, or she is prepared to go after his money if he tries to stall.

"You got awarded over $83 million from this jury," CNN host Poppy Harlow prompted her. "Trump is obviously appealing and he has a right to do that. Big question over the last couple of weeks, does he get a bond or when does your client see that money or some of it?"

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"So he has two choices," the attorney began. "He has to post a bond, which is called an appellate bond, which requires him to put down 20 percent or he has to deposit, which is what he did for the first verdict, the entire amount with the court."

"So $83 million plus 9 percent, so call it $89 million," she added. "If he can't do either of those then we can start collecting right now and we will for sure."

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Appearing on CNN early Monday morning, New York writer E. Jean Carroll called Donald Trump an "emperor with no clothes" whose power has diminished now that he has been held responsible for defaming her.

Accompanied by her lawyer Robbie Kaplan, the recipient of a $83.3 million damage award levied against the former president admitted she was initially nervous about encountering the ex-president in court but then she realized he has become a non-entity.

"There he was, and he was nothing," she told CNN hosts Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly. "Just, no power. He had — he was zero. That was, I was flabbergasted and from then on we just sailed through."

Asked if she made "eye contact with him," she replied, 'Many times," she added, "He's an emperor without clothes. it's like looking at nothing. It was like... nothing."

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"I had been prepared for the worst force, you know, on the Earth today, the most powerful, the most effective, the most money, the richest, the most, you know —— and there he is, he's nothing," she elaborated. "It's just the people around him who give him the power; it's the emperor without clothes."

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CNN's John Avlon on Monday hammered former President Donald Trump for seemingly rooting for a terrorist attack or a stock market crash to help his 2024 bid for the White House.

While talking about some of Trump's recent Truth Social rants, Avlon took particular aim at Trump's claim that there is a "100 percent chance that there will be a major terror attack in the U.S.," which he described as "a crazy thing for the presidential candidate to say."

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss the Republican Party's inability to move on from Donald Trump to their own detriment, Washington Post journalist Jacqueline Alemany stated Republicans are conceding that the 2024 election is not going to go well for them.

As she put it, they are expecting it to be a "bloodbath."

Speaking with the hosts about Trump's interference in a possible border deal that is infuriating some GOP lawmakers, Alemany stated, "The House was pretty quiet last week as they were on recess. We're going to be getting more incoming on that this week, especially after Trump's, you know, trouncing of Nikki Haley in Iowa and then his victory in New Hampshire, where he is becoming a bigger and bigger voice that Republicans can't really ignore and are starting to be -- or will expect to be punished by Trump if they start to speak out against him and go against some of the things that he is advocating for."

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She then went on to explain that Trump's dominance of the party may hurt them going forward.

"But there are the same concerns that we saw in 2022 after the disappointing red wave, as everyone had expected, that ultimately didn't materialize," she elaborated. "Now, Speaker Johnson has essentially a two-vote majority where it's nearly impossible to get anything through, especially if Trump touches it and advises members not to vote for it."

"So I think that, you know, Republicans understand that they're headed for another potential electoral bloodbath, but it's this inevitable thing that they've sort of come to accept so long as Trump is the leader of the party," she added, "That's why you're seeing retirements; people just sort of taking a bow and these nods of resignation."

She later added, "There are concerns, but I don't see anybody doing anything about it."

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