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Trump just showed his dictator plans for another term are 'all too real': expert

Donald Trump gave away that he plans to mimic other far-right authoritarians, a legal expert said on Friday.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance outlined what she thinks "Trump wants to do to America," and based it on an interesting development: the former president's embrace of Argentine libertarian Javier Milei.

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Missing Russia binder could have been shared with a 'foreign adversary': ex-CIA director

The missing binder full of highly classified intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election could have ended up being shared directly with Vladimir Putin himself, warned former CIA Director John Brennan on MSNBC's "All In" Friday evening.

But even if not, he warned, there are other nefarious uses former President Donald Trump could have had for it.

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Viral screenshots of Trump supposedly blaming Biden for lemonade-related deaths are fake

On Friday, screenshots of former President Donald Trump supposedly saying President Joe Biden is to blame for the recent spate of deaths of people who drank Panera's charged lemonade quickly spread on social media. However, those screenshots have been proven to be the work of comedian Keaton Patti, who is a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Onion.

The four screenshots initially tweeted by Patti show the 45th president of the United States giving a campaign speech in Coralville, Iowa, with text below each image. The first screenshot reads: "Everything is bad under Biden. Even the lemonade is killing people. Did you see that? People drink lemonade and die."''

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Trump lawyers in for a surprise at sentencing after half-baked apologies: ex-prosecutor

Two Trump lawyers who took plea agreements, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, could face a revocation or harshening of their plea deals — or at the very least, a reprimand from the court — over their unrepentant behavior, former federal prosecutor Shan Wu suggested on Friday's edition of MSNBC's "All In."

This comes after Powell and Chesebro, who were ordered to write apology letters as part of the terms of the deal for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, wrote terse, one-line statements that barely apologized for anything.

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Republican running for Kevin McCarthy's vacant seat disqualified from special election

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is leaving Congress after his historic ouster as Speaker of the House earlier this year — and the fight to replace him in the special election for his very conservative Central Valley district is on.

But it's already hitting some major complications. According to KBAK, the California Secretary of State has disqualified one of the leading Republican contenders, Assemblyman Vince Fong, from running.

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'That's a felony': Former prosecutor raises red flags about missing Russia binder

A binder of highly classified intelligence about Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, last seen with former President Donald Trump, has gone missing, and no one seems to know where it is — coinciding with a moment when the former president is being prosecuted for retaining national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago country club.

All this smells rotten, argued former prosecutor Kristy Greenberg on MSNBC's "The Beat" Friday evening — and it could lead to criminal charges.

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Letitia James has a warning for 'powerful' people who think they are above the law

Justice can't be bought.

New York Attorney General Letitia James released another video testimonial on social media on Friday, lauding her team for slogging through 11 weeks of trial and a four-year investigation into a $250 million civil fraud case targeting former President Donald Trump's real estate empire.

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Rudy Giuliani's plan to appeal $150 million judgment is already doomed: legal expert

Following the handing down of his $148 million judgment against him for defaming election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, Rudy Giuliani told a gaggle of reporters that he stands by what he said about them, and that he will pursue an appeal or retrial of the case, claiming that the size of the judgment would assist him in getting it thrown out.

But not so fast, Ronnell Andersen Jones of the Columbia University Knight Institute told MSNBC's Alicia Menendez — it's actually not so simple for Giuliani to get another trial. In fact, he all but forfeited a defense in the one he already had.

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'Madness': Trump world furious over massive Rudy Giuliani defamation verdict

MAGA Republicans on Friday decried the $148 million victory for two Georgia poll workers who found themselves at the mercy of an angry mob of right-wing trolls when Rudy Giuliani falsely accused them of election interference.

Far-righters such as Stephen Miller professed themselves outraged that Giuliani — who claimed a ginger mint was a USB drive full of fake votes funneled into Georgia's 2020 presidential election by mother and daughter Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss — had been found liable for damages.

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Giuliani's ex-spokesman says his drinking is partly responsible for his erratic behavior

Rudy's reported love for liquor has been influencing his warped decision making, his one-time spokesman said.

"It heightens his already heightened personality," said Ken Frydman, who served as the now 79-year-old's mouthpiece back in 1993 when he successfully ran to become mayor of New York City, appearing on CNN's "The Lead" with Jake Tapper.

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Giuliani will be 'chased' for his assets — and he won't be able to hide: legal expert

Rudy Giuliani is on the hook for $148 million after a civil defamation trial brought by election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whom Giuliani had accused without evidence of stuffing ballots in the 2020 Georgia presidential count.

Giuliani is reportedly so broke that he was already struggling to pay his legal fees — but, noted expert Lisa Rubin on MSNBC, that won't deter the plaintiffs from collecting all of the money they can out of him.

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'Rudy Giuliani was not the only one': Georgia poll worker vows more MAGA defamation suits

On the heels of her massive courtroom victory against Rudy Giuliani, Ruby Freeman said Friday she was not done seeking justice against those who defamed her work as a Georgia poll worker in 2020.

“Today is not the end of the of the road, we still have work to do,” Freeman told the horde of reporters who gathered to hear her statement.

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'A thorn in Trump's side': Legal writer reveals what's behind Jack Smith's latest move

Special Counsel Jack Smith added a Supreme Court whisperer to outplay Trump's immunity gamesmanship.

Michael Dreeben is Smith's ace and is already being credited for helping the lead prosecutor execute the rare, gambit move to hopscotch the appeals court and take the 45th president's immunity argument straight to the nation's highest court.

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