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'No way he's going to win this': Experts warn Trump on immunity plea

Donald Trump will appear in court on Tuesday and watch as his lawyers make the case that he has a kind of special presidential immunity that protects him against prosecutions for purportedly official acts he took as president.

Andrew Weissmann, a former senior prosecutor to Robert Mueller, explained that the Justice Department would be arguing that there is no doctrine of presidential immunity for presidents when it comes to a criminal case, regardless of what is happening in a civil capacity.

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'Be careful': Trump issues veiled threat that he'll come after Joe Biden if he wins

Donald Trump is putting a bullseye on President Joe Biden.

The former president posted a nearly six-minute video late Monday night to air grievances over his beef with Biden and directly warned the president he has a window of time to find wrongdoing.

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Legal experts call new​ Georgia filing: 'National Enquirer dressed up in a pleading'

Donald Trump's co-defendant, Michael Roman, is attempting to stop the Georgia case with a new filing that legal experts characterize as worse than a Hail Mary.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday that in a filing, Roman alleges that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired an alleged romantic partner to work on her team and that she financially benefitted from "the clandestine personal relationship."

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Trump says he wants economy to crash ASAP so he can have something to use against Biden

In an interview posted Monday on Mike Lindell's new streaming network, Donald Trump told disgraced former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that he really hopes the economy crashes as soon as possible.

While Americans are climbing out of the economic fall in 2020, numbers have slowly improved, charts posted by the Washington Post explain. Inflation is continuing to go down. Employment continues to go up. After Republicans blamed President Joe Biden for high gas prices, those have fallen.

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Jack Smith could have a witness Trump 'wanted the violence': Jan. 6 investigator

Special counsel Jack Smith now has clear and devastating insight into former President Donald Trump's intent and mental state during the attack on the U.S. Capitol, argued former House January 6 Committee investigator Tim Heaphy on MSNBC Monday.

This comes amid new reporting that a key Trump campaign official gave Smith testimony that Trump didn't care if the violence at the Capitol stopped.

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Special counsel Jack Smith targeted in swatting incident on Christmas Day

While many in the world were celebrating the birth of Christ, followers of Donald Trump planned a "swatting" attack on special counsel Jack Smith.

NBC News reported Monday evening that two law enforcement sources confirmed someone called police pretending to be from Smith's home and claiming there was an attack. The goal of the attacker is to rile up police enough that they might shoot first and ask questions later, accidently killing the target or someone in the target's family.

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Fani Willis demands an interview with Georgia Republican who refused to be a Trump elector

Fani Willis wants to interview a Georgia Republican who refused to serve as an alternate elector because she knew Donald Trump “did not win the presidential election,” newly revealed court records show.

The Fulton County District attorney who has charged Trump with criminal election interference in her state filed a motion Monday to depose Republican state Rep. Susan Holmes, Lawfare’s Anna Bower was first to report.

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Trump's immunity claim denied in E. Jean Carroll's civil court case

Donald Trump's immunity claim has been denied, court records show.

The New York Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump's request Monday to reconsider his immunity claim in the civil lawsuit brought by former journalist E. Jean Carroll, court records show.

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Giuliani demands right to interview co-defendants who pleaded guilty in Fani Willis trial

Rudy Giuliani, one of several people charged in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' Georgia election racketeering case, is demanding to question former co-defendants who took plea deals, reported The Messenger on Monday.

"In a four-page motion, Giuliani's attorneys argued they 'will be unable to properly investigate the facts of this case unless Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issues an order requiring the former co-defendants to be made available for interviews,'" reported Steve Reilly.

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'He wants the coverage': Trump brutally fact-checked over campaign flier claim

Former President Donald Trump was the subject of a brutal fact-check Monday after legal experts found his election flier claims that his court cases were keeping him from the campaign trail.

MSNBC legal expert Lisa Rubin took to the airwaves Monday to explain Trump doesn't have to appear in court this week for his cases after an email to supporters went viral.

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Jack Smith just learned everything he needs to know about Trump on Jan. 6: legal expert

Special counsel Jack Smith has a more compelling case than ever in the election conspiracy prosecution of former President Donald Trump, one-time federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said on MSNBC Monday.

This comes amid new bombshell reporting that Dan Scavino, a longtime Trump associate, told investigators the former president "was just not interested" in doing more to stop the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Nancy Mace bludgeoned on X over Biden speech response: 'A disgusting slap in the face'

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) was bludgeoned on social media Monday after she insulted President Joe Biden’s appearance at a South Carolina church where worshippers were massacred by a white supremacist nearly nine years earlier.

Mace posted to X at 11 a.m. ET her video response to Biden’s address from the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — before the 12:30 event had even begun.

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Ex-Trump lawyer throws Harvard colleagues under bus to deflect Epstein claims: report

Former Harvard Law professor and celebrity defense attorney Alan Dershowitz has consistently denied allegations that he took part in sexual assaults at parties held by deceased sex-trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

And, according to The Daily Beast, recently released documents show that he defended himself partly by pointing out how many of his fellow academics at Harvard also fit the description a lawyer representing one of the victims says applies to him.

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