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'Scathing rebuke': Georgia judge doesn't hold back in ruling against Trump co-defendant

The Georgia judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election racketeering case on Friday issued a “scathing rebuke” of co-defendant Rudy Giuliani’s attorneys, according to experts and court records.

Judge Scott McAfee denied Giuliani’s motion for an extension on the Jan. 8 deadline to file pre-trial motions in the Fulton County case, records show.

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Insurrectionist law now targeting more than 130 Republicans: report

Former President Donald Trump has been set up for a high-profile legal battle over his ballot eligibility, with challenges under the Constitution's 14th Amendment's Insurrection Clause advancing in Colorado and Maine, and others in the pipeline in a number of other states.

But Trump is not alone in this — according to Newsweek, these challenges are popping up all over the Republican landscape.

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MAGA fooled by satirical report shared by Trump that seems to back election 'conspiracy'

Donald Trump Friday shared a report apparently backing his 2020 election fraud claims and including the phrases “orchestrated efforts,” a “conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes,” and “Trump was right.”

Truth Social followers were quick to reply with memes and messages accusing President Joe Biden and Democrats of corrupt election interference and political witch hunts linked to the former president's multiple criminal court cases.

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'Simple questions': Fake Michigan Trump elector put on the spot by reporter

Craig Mauger, a reporter for the Detroit News, put former Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock on the spot Friday after she decried his reporting as "fake news."

Mauger this week reported on new evidence showing that the Trump campaign directly orchestrated the plot to create fake slates of electors to send to Congress on January 6th, 2021 in a bid to keep former President Donald Trump illegally in power.

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Trump hires new attorney who worked for judge leading charge for ballot ban

Anticipating a historic battle before the Supreme Court to keep himself on the 2024 ballot, Donald Trump has hired a new lawyer with not only more experience addressing the nation's highest court, but also a surprising connection to the battle over how the 14th Amendment should be interpreted.

According to a report from Bloomberg Law, Trump has tapped former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell to advocate for him as the Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the former president can be banned from ballots for participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection aimed at thwarting the certification of President Joe Biden's win.

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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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