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Jamie Raskin ratchets up attacks on Trump taking payments from 'murderous Saudi monarchs'

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Friday ramped up his attacks on former President Donald Trump amid revelations that foreign officials from countries such as China and Saudi Arabia spent lavishly at his properties while he was president.

While speaking outside the United States Capitol building, Raskin reiterated the importance of the so-called emoluments clause of the United States Constitution that prevents the president from receiving foreign payments during his term in office.

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Letitia James wants Trump hit with extra $120M in fraud trial damages

The New York prosecutor who accused former President Donald Trump of fraudulently inflating his assets added $120 million to the amount of damages she's demanding he pay, court records show.

Attorney General Letitia James said Trump should pay $370 million in closing arguments filed in New York City's civil court Friday.

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Closing arguments filed in Trump's $250M fraud trial

Donald Trump and New York Attorney General Letitia James Friday filed their closing arguments in the former president's $250 million fraud trial, reports and court records show.

James, who accuses the former president and his sons of defrauding investors by inflating the value of Trump Organization assets, called the evidence "inescapable," reports the New York Daily News.

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Trump 'overplayed his hand' with demand Jack Smith pay some of his legal expenses: expert

A new filing from Donald Trump's lawyers that asks, among other things, for special counsel Jack Smith to help pay for some of the former president's legal fees is unlikely to go anywhere.

That is the opinion of former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance who conceded that Trump's legal team may have a point that Smith may be testing the bounds of a stay that was put in place and is holding up proceedings in Judge Tanya Chutkan's courtroom.

In the latest accusation made by Trump's lawyers, Smith should be ordered to cease and desist from making additional filings contesting the former president's claim of presidential immunity related to the Jan. 6 insurrection while the Supreme Court reviews it.

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'Useful idiot' defense is doomed to fail in Trump's Jan. 6 trial: legal expert

Of the approximately 1,200 rioters arrested in relation to the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, roughly 900 have pleaded guilty or have been convicted in a trial.

Many of those defendants' lawyers argued — some successfully — that their clients were simply too gullible and were taken advantage of in the heat of the moment.

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'A sign of weakness': Trump hurls election fraud accusation at unexpected target

There’s a new target for Donald Trump’s election fraud accusations — and it’s not President Joe Biden.

“Reject DeSantis on January 15,” a new Iowa campaign flier reads. “Stop the fraud.”

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Trump snarls DOJ is 'setting a horrible precedent for the future' by investigating him

As he heads off to Iowa for a two-day, four-rally tour, Donald Trump took a parting shot at the Department of Justice on Truth Social, once again complaining about "ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!"

According to the former president, what the DOJ is doing by investigating his part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, as well as his absconding with and hiding sensitive government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, is nothing less than damaging the future of the country.

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READ: Andrew Giuliani and George Santos' epic 'pathetic' spat over who is Trump's favorite

There’s political theater and then there’s vaudeville slapstick: guess which George Santos and Andrew Giuliani engaged in on X Friday.

Santos, the former New York Congressman ousted over multiple criminal accusations, and Giuliani, the failed conservative gubernatorial candidate and son of a former mayor facing possible disbarment and a court-ordered $148 million defamation payment, dove headfirst into a heated debate over who had the closest relationship with Donald Trump, the former president facing 91 criminal charges.

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'Outrageous': Jamie Raskin buries Eric Trump for raking in millions in foreign cash

Invited on CNN to discuss the bombshell report on Donald Trump and his family taking in millions from foreign governments while the former president was still in office, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) dropped the hammer on Eric Trump for trying to blow off concerns about the cash grab.

Speaking with CNN host John Berman, Raskin highlighted findings in the report that he co-authored with Democratic colleagues on the House Oversight Committee before being asked about Eric Trump's pushback.

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Bombshell report reveals evidence Trump campaign 'directly orchestrated' fake elector plot

The effort to submit slates of so-called "fake electors" in Michigan — which then-President Donald Trump narrowly lost in 2020 — appears to have been a project of the Trump campaign itself, according to a recent report.

The Detroit News reported on internal emails from the Trump campaign that showed how the former president's top legal advisers like John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn and Kenneth Chesebro, who are now cooperating in multiple states' fake elector investigations, "directly orchestrated" the effort to steal Electoral College votes from then-candidate Joe Biden.

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'They know better': CNN busts Ted Cruz for his Jan. 6 riot flip-flop

On the day before the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that sent lawmakers fleeing for their lives from supporters of ex-president Donald Trump, CNN's hosts took GOP lawmakers to task for diminishing the events of the day.

In particular, host Phil Mattingly busted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for turning tail on his own remarks right after the far-right insurrection that sought to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's win.

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Trump's 'political superpower' will keep him on ballot despite insurrection: columnist

The evidence is plain to see — Donald Trump is an insurrectionist who ordered his followers to ‘take their country back” as they stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to deny a legitimate election, a New York Times columnist wrote Friday.

But the ex-president’s “political superpower” means the U.S. Supreme Court will not be throwing him off the ballot, added Jamelle Bouie.

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Proud Boys' reputation in shambles with extremists after 'drunk' Capitol riot faceplant

As Americans look forward to the 2024 election that will likely be a rematch between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump, an organization that supported the former president and took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection has all but disappeared because they have become a joke among far-right extremists.

According to a report from Vice's Tess Owen, the Proud Boys, once a force among extremists, have seen their ranks thinned -- in part due to jail sentences.

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