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Prosecutor shows why Trump's D.C. trial will go down 'well before' 2024 election

Donald Trump's recent Supreme Court victory, which saw the high court refusing to expedite review of the former president's arguments that he's immune from prosecution in the D.C. election subversion case, won't stop him from being tried "well before" the 2024 election, a Florida prosecutor said Monday.

State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg on Christmas day appeared on MSNBC's Richard Lui Reports, where he was asked about the rejection Special Counsel Jack Smith saw at the Supreme Court when he asked to leapfrog another appeals court. Aronberg began by suggesting Trump was attempting to put himself above the law, and make himself a "king," by seeking presidential immunity in the criminal matter.

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'Lie of the year!' Trump spends Christmas yelling about DOJ official's ABC News interview

Donald Trump on Christmas lashed out against a DOJ official, saying she lied in an interview with ABC News about President Joe Biden's lack of input on the Justice Department's prosecution of the former president and Hunter Biden.

Trump, who has previously attacked Lisa Monaco, the U.S. Deputy Attorney General, did so again on Christmas following the interview. ABC News reported that Monaco said claims that the DOJ is politicized do "a disservice to the men and women of the Justice Department."

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Rudy Giuliani’s legal 'humiliations' threaten his knighthood in the UK: report

On Feb. 13, 2002 — five months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks — then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani visited Buckingham Palace in London and was awarded an honorary knighthood.

Giuliani, who often quoted the late UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, had a much different image in those days. Back then, Giuliani had a reputation for being a moderate conservative who had no problem working with non-Republicans in an overwhelmingly Democratic city.

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Trump warned by former DOJ official the D.C. Court of Appeals is 'onto his game'

During an appearance on CNN on Christmas day, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman claimed Donald Trump shouldn't get too comfortable thinking the D.C. Court of Appeals will take its time ruling on whether he is covered by presidential immunity for alleged crimes he committed related to the Jan 6 insurrection.

Speaking with host Kate Bolduan, the former prosecutor stated, "I think the court of appeals is not going to be very welcoming of this general immunity argument. What he's trying to say basically is he was acting as president not as a candidate, not trying to do anything wrong just looking out for the election integrity."

"I don't think that's a position that's going to fly," he predicted. "On the other hand, right now it does delay the start of the trial and in that sense he gets an important advantage on one level."

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Pressed on the former president's legal strategy, he elaborated, "Trump will try, of course, to string it out by going to the full court of appeals or the Supreme Court but if the court of appeals gives us stay with a short fuse, which is just what the Colorado court did a few days ago, that will hand him in and that's going to be the real lookout."

"Will they keep him from delaying?" he added. "They seem to be onto his game and worried about letting things trail along too long."

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'You’d never get him out of office': Conservative voters balking at re-electing Trump

Despite Donald Trump's commanding lead in the polls, not all Republican and conservative voters are willing to send the ex-president back to the Oval Office if he ends up winning the battle for the 2024 Republican party nomination.

According to a report from the Guardian, doubts about giving the four-time indicted former president another crack at becoming the commander-in-chief have increased due to his recent comments about wanting to be a "dictator" for one day after being re-elected.

Although many observers have suggested Trump is using that kind of language to get a rise out of his detractors, some Republicans are a bit wary that he means it and are looking elsewhere at either one of Trump's GOP rivals for the nomination or contemplating holding their noses and voting for President Joe Biden.

In interviews with conservative voters in the key state of Pennsylvania, the Guardian's Chris Stein found more than a handful of former Trump voters who expressed growing alarm at the former president's increasingly authoritarian rhetoric.

While 67-year-old Roger Williams defended the Trump "dictator" comments by saying, "For one day – don’t get it twisted. He wanted to put his foot down and dictate some things that needed to get done. That’s what he meant,” others weren't so sure.

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Conservative Bob Capparell, 74, claimed he'd prefer former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie or ex-U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and worried that Trump might make good on boast about being a dictator by telling the Guardian's Stein, "He would be, absolutely. You’d never get him out of office, never.”

Bob Buchman, 72, a Trump voter in 2016 because he “believed his baloney,” turned to Biden in 2020 and may vote that way again.

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Trump lashes out at DOJ and FBI in 'Merry Christmas to all' morning rant

Donald Trump kicked off his Christmas morning by lashing out in yet another all-caps rant aimed at the prosecutors, the DOJ and the FBI before offering his fans his "Merry Christmas" wishes.

Taking to Truth Social after a Christmas Eve spent lashing out at special counsel Jack Smith, the former president spread his attacks around and added a shot at President Joe Biden.

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The Supreme Court has good reason to smack Trump down over presidential immunity: expert

According to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, as much as the conservative-dominated Supreme Court may want to show deference to Donald Trump over his claims of presidential immunity the justices will look at the big picture and how that decision will impact them.

In a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, Kirschner explained that the court should dismiss the Trump legal team's "BS claim that a president can commit any and all crimes while in office with absolute immunity from prosecution."

"IF the Supreme Court is an honest broker of the law (I know, I know), it will also refuse to review Trump’s BS immunity claim once it’s rejected by the D.C.appeals court," he wrote. "Please remember this: if the court bestows upon Trump absolute immunity, thereby putting him out of reach of our nation’s criminal laws, the Supreme Court will have demoted itself to a second-class branch of government, as Trump could then commit any crime he wished in efforts to undermine the authority of the Supreme Court."

Adding that the "Supreme Court LOVES its supreme status," he suggested the nation's highest court "will NEVER relinquish it by ruling that a president is above the law. So, if nothing else, take heart in the Supreme Court’s allegiance to . . . itself, and its own supreme status."

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Explaining that the law is clear enough that Trump should not win if he follows through on an appeal he added, "If all else fails, the court WILL deny Trump’s BS immunity claim motivated by its own sense of self-preservation."

'Nobody knows where she is': Melania's whereabouts a mystery to Mar-a-Lago regulars

According to the author of the book Mar-A-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump's Presidential Palace, former first lady Melania Trump is rarely seen, if at all, at the Mar-a-Lago resort she and her husband Donald Trump now call home.

In an interview with the Telegraph, author and Palm Beach resident Laurence Leamer said Melania used to be seen regularly on the grounds but has been missing as of late and that has become a subject of speculation among regular visitors.

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Trump runs larger risk from the Supreme Court in Colorado ballot battle: columnist

With the battle between Donald Trump's lawyers and special counsel Jack Smith likely headed to the Supreme Court no matter which way an appeals court rules on his banning from Colorado's ballot, the former president runs the risk the nation's highest court may rule in such a way that the former president's political career will be ended.

In his column for CNN, SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah suggested the court could step in and not just agree with the Colorado Supreme Court, but also disqualify the former president from ever running for office again.

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'Like a zombie coming back from the dead': Trump's resurgence leaves GOP senator appalled

Republican senators critical of Donald Trump insist they do not regret voting to acquit the former president during his second impeachment trial even as he consolidates power among the party in the lead-up to the 2024 election.

Two Republican senators interviewed anonymously by The Hill dispelled recent comments made by former House Speaker Paul Ryan. In those remarks, Ryan insisted “there are a lot of people in Congress, good friends of mine, who would take [their] vote back” because after Jan. 6 “they thought Trump was dead.”

Per The Hill:

One Republican senator who frequently criticizes Trump’s conduct but nevertheless voted to acquit Trump of inciting insurrection said they would have voted the same way if given a second chance after knowing the outcome.

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Michael Cohen recalls Trump's bizarre World War II cracks about Germans chasing Jews

Donald Trump has spent the better part of the last week trying to clean up his language after adopting some of Adolf Hitler's ideology about blood purity. According to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, the ex-president knew exactly what he was doing.

Republicans struggled to try and dismiss the comments. Some claimed he was just "joking," a common refrain, and reframe, of whatever objectionable thing the ex-president had uttered. Other lawmakers went so far as to claim that it wasn't "real," and that Trump simply uses that kind of language to get Republican voters excited. Some outright embraced it while the Republican Party stayed silent.

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Trump goes off on another rambling rant 30 minutes after saying the same thing

Donald Trump spent Christmas Eve ranting on his personal social media site, but his engagement seemed low as normal people spent the evening with family, friends or caroling in church.

Instead, Trump posted one rambling rant, spraying conspiracy theories like Aqua Net across his hair. "Crooked Joe Biden," "Crazy Nancy Pelosi," "Derranged Jack Smith," and demanding the House Select Committee that investigated the 2020 election and Jan. 6 attack be prosecuted for "destroying and deleting all of their evidence."

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Supreme Court knows what Trump is doing, and can choose whether to be complicit: columnist

Last week, the Supreme Court turned down special counsel Jack Smith's plea to rush Donald Trump's appeal straight to the High Court so that it can be resolved quickly.

According to columnist Ron Brownstein, the Supreme Court isn't stupid, they know exactly what Trump is trying to do, they simply have to choose whether or not to be complicit.

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