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Even Donald Trump doesn't believe his own argument that his position as a former president makes him immune from criminal prosecution, argued former federal prosecutor Michael McAuliffe in an interview with Newsweek Tuesday.

The evidence for it is simple, he argued — Trump opposes special counsel Jack Smith's move to expedite a review of the matter by the Supreme Court. That's a clear indicator he's just using it as a stall tactic to try to push the trial date past the 2024 election.

A U.S. District Court issued a summons on Tuesday after former election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman filed a second defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani.

In the lawsuit filed on Monday, Freeman and Moss asked the court for "injunctive relief to permanently bar Defendant Rudolph W. Giuliani ('Defendant') from persisting in his defamatory campaign."

President Joe Biden's campaign has leaned into attacks on Donald Trump's authoritarian rhetoric — and there's some evidence that voters are beginning to notice.

The president has made protecting democracy a centerpiece of his re-election campaign as he faces a potential rematch against Trump, who has been hit with federal and state charges for trying to overturn his 2020 loss. Biden's team has highlighted recent remarks by the Republican frontrunner that historians say stinks of fascism, reported Politico.

House Democrats on Monday called for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from a pending case involving former President Donald Trump and the insurrection effort that took place on January 6, 2021.

A letter spearheaded by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and signed by seven other Democrats cites the participation of Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, in the far-right scheme to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election results, in which Trump was soundly defeated by President Joe Biden, as reason enough for the Thomas to recuse himself from a question before the court about the former's president immunity from prosecution.

Ashlee Humphreys, a Northwestern University professor known for her expertise on marketing and social media, was among the witnesses in former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss' defamation lawsuit against ex- New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — which ended with a jury awarding them $148 million in damages.

Humphreys is also an expert witness in another defamation lawsuit: former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll's latest defamation case against former President Donald Trump. But according to the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, Trump and his legal team are "desperately" fighting to block her testimony.

During Monday night's episode of MSNBC's The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, guest host Symone Sanders-Townsend spoke with former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade about a "false narrative" Donald Trump is pushing in his defense of January 6 rioters.

Sanders-Townsend played a clip of Trump comparing Minneapolis protesters following George Floyd's 2020 murder to the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

A GOPer tried to turn Donald Trump’s widely-reviled “poisoning the blood” speech onto the Democrats late Monday — and was shot down on live TV by a CNN host.

“Well, I don’t think that’s what he was saying,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told anchor Abby Phillip when she was asked about the speech Trump gave at a rally Saturday which many have said echoes Adolf Hitler’s “blood poisoning” reference in Mein Kampf.

"Daily Show" correspondent Jordan Klepper has spent countless hours outside of Donald Trump rallies trying to help understand them better.

In his 2023 wrap-up video, Klepper showed the confusion at the Trump announcement as fans struggled to figure out if it was a rally or another sort of event.

Donald Trump and his co-defendants are swinging and missing.

Geoff Duncan, the former GOP lieutenant governor of Georgia, turned to baseball metaphors to drive home the poor showing in court among Trump and those floating in his orbit.

While many people in the country heard about synagogue threats in their state over the weekend it wasn't until Sunday and Monday that it became clear there was a coordinated act of terrorism unfolding across the United States.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow sounded the alarm on Monday that it wasn't merely the few threats in Mississippi and a handful in Washington, D.C., but hundreds of threats from California to Maine and Florida to Washington state. USA Today explained that there were more threats in a single day than the U.S. had in an entire year in 2022. They charted 200. CNN later calculated over 400 threats.

A panel on MSNBC hammered Republicans and the mainstream media for downplaying Donald Trump's white purity campaign.

Host Joy Reid on Monday, explained that it continues to be a discussion about non-white people damaging the blood of white purity.

The Republican Party at large owns former President Donald Trump's increasing descent into fascistic and racist rhetoric, former GOP chair Michael Steele told MSNBC's Katie Phang on Monday.

This comes as Trump stated at a rally that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," language that has clear roots in Nazi Germany — and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended it furiously when cornered by reporters.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is lost in Trumpistan.

Former President Donald Trump's repeated refrain about illegal migrants "poisoning the blood" of the country has stumped the Florida governor hoping to earn the GOP nomination for president.