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The Supreme Court has declined to take up an expedited review of former President Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity from the 2020 federal election interference case, reported The New York Times on Friday — a loss for special counsel Jack Smith, who had urged them to take up the case and bypass the appellate court.

"A speedy decision by the justices was of the essence, Mr. Smith wrote, because Mr. Trump’s appeal of a trial judge’s ruling rejecting his claim of immunity suspends the criminal trial. The proceeding was scheduled to begin on March 4 in Federal District Court in Washington," reported the Times.

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman told CNN on Friday that he thinks Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel put herself in real legal jeopardy when she offered to provide legal help to two Michigan canvassers if they refused to certify the results of the 2020 election.

A newly unearthed audio recording shows that both McDaniel and Trump called the two canvassers and pressured them against certifying the results, while promising to set them up with lawyers in exchange.

Appearing on MSNBC on Friday morning, conservative political analyst Susan Del Percio said the newly unearthed recording of a phone call to Michigan election officials from Donald Trump and Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel will likely come back to haunt McDaniel if she is called as a witness by special counsel Jack Smith, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel or Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

In the call in which the former president implores Michigan officials Monica Palmer and William Hartmann not to sign the election document certifying the result, the RNC head is heard chiming in with, "If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. ... We will get you attorneys."

Trump loyalist and co-defendant in the Georgia racketeering case, Jeffrey Clark, lost his bid to have his case put on hold until a federal appeals court rules on his request to fight the charges outside of Fulton County, The Messenger reported.

Clark, who was appointed to a role in the Department of Justice during Trump's presidency, is accused of helping to pursue a plan to delegitimize the results of the 2020 election and keep Trump in office by falsely claiming the DOJ had seen evidence of mass voter fraud.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday defended his use of Nazi-style rhetoric to describe immigrants by claiming that he had no idea his words directly echoed those of Adolf Hitler.

In his autobiographical manifesto "Mein Kampf," Hitler posited that in the past great cultures died out due to "blood poisoning," and he said that Jews in Europe were primarily responsible for such "poisoning" in Germany.

With new figures stating that Trump now sits at 33 percent with voters, with Haley within striking distance at 29 percent, the embattled former president lashed out at what he called the "fake poll" and, once again, slurred his former U.N. ambassador as "Birdbrain."

"FAKE NEW HAMPSHIRE POLL WAS RELEASED ON BIRDBRAIN. JUST ANOTHER SCAM!" he wrote.

Many supporters of former President Donald Trump don't just like him for his policy ideas.

Rather, as a new report from the Boston Globe makes clear, they think he was literally chosen by God to lead the United States.

Legal and political experts are responding to Thursday night's bombshell news of secret recordings of then-President Donald Trump, two weeks after the 2020 election, allegedly personally pressuring two Wayne County, Michigan election officials to not certify the results for Joe Biden. It "sounds like a classic case of bribery," says one expert, and is being called a "huge, systemic plot" to "seize power despite losing an election," by another.

"We've got to fight for our country," Trump told the two officials, called "canvassers," in the November 17, 2020 recordings, according to The Detroit News which broke the story. "We can't let these people take our country away from us."

When the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump is ineligible for the state's 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot, the other candidates were quick to rush to his defense.

The justices, in a 4-3 decision, ruled that he is disqualified from running for president in the state under Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment. Section 3 states that an "officer" who has engaged in "insurrection" cannot run for office, and the justices believe he did that when he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results despite the fact that now-President Joe Biden clearly won.

Reacting to reports that Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniels was on the phone call that Donald Trump made to election officials in Michigan to pressure them to not certify the 2020 election results, one law professor claimed she could be investigated for bribery for promising legal help if they complied.

Based on the recently unearthed phone call the former president made to officials Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, imploring them not to sign the election document, the RNC head is heard chiming in with, "If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. ... We will get you attorneys."