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The America First Policy Institute is a pro-MAGA think tank whose aim is to craft policies around the political agenda of former President Donald Trump.

And, according to Rolling Stone, Trump believes that it owes him "millions" of dollars for supposedly making money using his branding.

Donald Trump on Wednesday hailed a widely expected Michigan Supreme Court ruling that keeps him on the state's primary ballot, although his candidacy could still be at risk for the general election.

The justices declined to review an appeals court ruling that upholds a Court of Claims finding that state law doesn't give election officials authority to determine the eligibility of presidential primary candidates — differing from a ruling by Colorado's Supreme Court last week that disqualified him from holding elected office in that state under Section Three of the 14th Amendment.

Former President Donald Trump's argument for presidential immunity regarding the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election is "dangerous" for America well beyond the current moment, warned Republican experts in an amicus brief to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Salon reported on Wednesday.

"Nothing in our Constitution, or any case, supports former President Trump's dangerous argument for criminal immunity," said the brief. "The last thing presidential immunity should do is embolden Presidents who lose re-election to engage in criminal conduct, through official acts or otherwise, as part of efforts to prevent the vesting of executive power required by Article II in their lawfully-elected successors."

Special counsel Jack Smith submitted a filing Wednesday that indicated he has testimony from members of Congress that he intends to use in Donald Trump's 2020 election trial.

Smith requested that, when trial witnesses are cross-examined, Trump's lawyers be barred from asking questions that would force them to breach attorney-client privilege or the Speech and Debate Clause.

Special counsel Jack Smith is taking steps to stop Donald Trump from using the court to spin election conspiracy theories.

In a Wednesday filing, Smith says, among other things, that he wants to exclude specific pieces of evidence and arguments in the 2020 election trial that include Trump's claims that he's being targeted or that the election is being interfered with because of his prosecution.

Donald Trump pushed conspiracy theories about his 2020 election loss to insist he is "entitled to immunity."

The twice-impeached former president was indicted Aug. 1 by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on four counts related to his effort to overturn his election loss, but he claimed Wednesday morning in a Truth Social post that he was acting within the scope of his official duties to overcome what he claims were irregularities in the vote.

In a year dominated by Donald Trump's assorted outbursts, it can be hard to keep up with what’s been said.

The Guardian, in an attempt to “keep track of all the racist, unhinged, authoritarian comments by the former president,” on Wednesday published a rundown of the top 10 outrageous things he said in 2023.

A new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party, "explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image—and the wreckage he's left in his wake," according to its summary.

Speaking with the veteran journalist Tuesday, MSNBC's The ReidOut host Joy Reid notes the book includes a quote from a former Trump official, saying, "He lacks any shred of human decency, humility or caring. He is morally bankrupt, breathtakingly dishonest, lethally incompetent, and stunningly ignorant of virtually anything related to governing, history, geography, human events or world affairs. He is a traitor and a malignancy in our nation and represents a clear and present danger to our democracy and the rule of law."

Donald Trump has made "presidential immunity" a big part of his defense in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case, arguing that because he was still president in late 2020 and early 2021, he is immune from prosecution.

Judge Tanya Chutkan has flatly rejected Trump's argument, ruling that presidents do not enjoy a "divine right of kings" in the United States — a decision that Trump's lawyers have appealed. Smith, hoping the U.S. Supreme Court would quickly resolve the matter, asked the justices to review it sooner rather than later. But his request was denied, which means that Trump's "presidential immunity" claims will remain in the lower federal courts for now.

Donald Trump's claim of unlimited presidential immunity will, almost certainly, make its way eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court, but multiple legal experts have already predicted he will lose.

The former president has been indicted on 91 charges in four jurisdictions, and the Supreme Court is expected to review the immunity issue raised in special counsel Jack Smith's criminal investigation of his efforts to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss — though it ruled last week the case needed to be heard by the lower court of appeal first.

As he continues to pursue delaying special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case against him, MSNBC Daily writer and editor Hayes Brown highlights the fact Donald "Trump all but requests the appeals court to rule that the judiciary has no power over anything he did while in office — to rule, in effect, that [Judge Tanya] Chutkan got it wrong: He does possess the divine right of kings, and as such, no other branch of government can touch him.'"

Brown is referring to Trump's lawyers' current focus on appealing Chutkan's ruling from earlier this month, rejecting the ex-president's claim that he's immune from prosecution, refusing to trash Smith's indictment against him.

A Republican fake elector in Michigan told investigators of his regret for trying to swing the 2020 vote for Donald Trump — and said officials “betrayed” him by exploiting his ignorance.

In a recording of an interview obtained by the New York Times, James Renner said it was only after he heard testimony from the House’s January 6 investigation that he realized he’d acted illegally.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump could be cruising towards a 2020 rematch with overtones of 2016, as a new poll shows each candidate with an 54% unfavorable rating.

A new Economist/YouGov poll, taken between December 16-18, asked 1,500 adult American citizens about their favorability of a number of world leaders. When it came to Trump, 42% rated him favorably—22% very favorable versus 19% somewhat favorable—and 54% unfavorable, split by 45% finding him very unfavorable to only 9% rating him somewhat unfavorable.