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After appearing in court on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump took to his social media site to claim that if there is no such thing as absolute presidential immunity, then Joe Biden can be prosecuted for anything Trump wants if he wins.

"Just finished a very productive Federal Appeals Court Hearing, in Washington, D.C., on whether or not a President should have Immunity," Trump wrote with randomly capitalized letters. He went on to say that special counsel Jack Smith also attended the proceeding.

The infamous recording of Donald Trump boasting in 2005 that he can grab women sexually can be presented as evidence in E. Jean Carroll’s civil trial against him, a judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan also banned Trump’s lawyers from suggesting in court that he didn’t sexually abuse the former journalist, questioning her mental health or discussing her sex life, court records show.

Fox News legal pundit Jonathan Turley predicted former President Donald Trump would lose his claim that he can't be prosecuted for election crimes because of "presidential immunity."

Turley made the remarks on Fox News Tuesday after a three-judge appeals panel heard immunity arguments about a federal election subversion case against Trump.

While it's true that Donald Trump took advantage of a particular rot within the GOP that helped him rise to power, his presidency was not inevitable, argues columnist Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times.

"If Republican elites had coalesced around a single candidate in the early days of the 2016 presidential race, they might have derailed Trump before he had a chance to pick up steam," Bouie writes. "If Republicans had chosen, in the aftermath of the 'Access Hollywood' videotape, to fully reject his presence in American politics, he might have flopped and floundered in the November election."

In his first campaign speech of the year, on Friday, just outside of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden drew distinctions between what he called his fight for American democracy and Donald Trump's attacks on it.

" Trump won’t do what an American president must do," President Biden told supporters in what The New York Times called a "blistering" speech that delivered a "ferocious condemnation" in "searing language" against his likely 2024 election opponent, Donald Trump.

Special counsel Jack Smith notified U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon that former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, "have yet" to produce any discovery materials.

In a three-page filing on Tuesday, Smith noted that the special counsel's office had fulfilled its obligations to turn over information about the classified documents case against Trump.

James Pearce, an attorney working on special counsel Jack Smith's team, seemed taken aback during an appeals court hearing on Tuesday after a lawyer representing former President Donald Trump argued that he could get away with ordering the assassination of his political rivals so long as the United States Senate didn't convict him for it.

"What kind of world are we living in if, as I understood my friend on the other side to say here, a president orders his SEAL team to assassinate a political rival and resigns, for example, before an impeachment, that's not a criminal act," Pearce said. "The president sells a pardon, resigns, or is not impeached, not a crime. I think that is extraordinarily frightening future."

Eric Trump sent out a fundraising appeal as his father's attorneys tried to persuade an appeals court to make him immune from prosecution.

The former president's son begged supporters for campaign cash as attorney Dean John Sauer told an apparently skeptical three-judge panel that Trump cannot be prosecuted for attempting to subvert the 2020 election because he had not been impeached and convicted in the Senate.

Donald Trump lawyer John Lauro echoed his client on Tuesday by warning that President Joe Biden could face prosecution simply because his administration's Department of Justice brought charges against the former president.

While talking with reporters after an appeals court hearing in which Trump's legal team argued their client had absolute immunity from criminal prosecutions, Lauro made the case that hitting Trump with criminal charges would spark a cycle of recriminations in American politics.

Former President Donald Trump's big mouth is coming back to bite him, a legal analyst said Tuesday.

Former Manhattan prosecutor Karen Agnifilo took to CNN Tuesday to discuss a moment in Trump’s presidential immunity hearing when his trial lawyers were confronted with past statements made in his impeachment hearings in January 2021.