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'Authoritarian agenda': Trump allies lay out 'blueprint' to 'Christianize' the government

The Washington Post and the New York Times have been providing in-depth, detailed reporting on Project 2025, Donald Trump and his allies' game plan for giving the United States' federal government a total MAGA makeover if he wins the 2024 GOP presidential primary and defeats President Joe Biden in the general election.

Project 2025, according to reporting in the Post and the Times, is designed to undermine the country's system of checks and balances and make sure anyone working in the federal government is an unquestioning Trump loyalist. And critics of Project 2025, from liberals and progressives to right-wing Never Trump conservatives, have been attacking it as a recipe for full-fledged authoritarianism.

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'Why he’s going to lose': Trump slammed for keynoting event with 'Nazi-linked groups'

The New York Young Republican Club recently held its annual gala in New York's financial district, and former President Donald Trump gave the keynote address with some of the global far right's most notorious political figures in attendance.

According to Talking Points Memo (TPM), the gala's attendees included not just American far-right politicians like Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado), Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) and Paul Gosar (R-Arizona), but also European right-wing extremists like Austrian politician Gerald Grosz and European Parliament member Susanna Ceccardi, who is from Italy's far-right Lega party. German politician Maximilian Krah — whose party, Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has been criticized as a "neo-Nazi party" — was also at the event.

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'Deadbeat' Rudy Giuliani has nowhere left to go but prison: reporter

Rudy Giuliani is currently spending his days in court awaiting to find out how much he will have to pay to two former poll workers in Georgia after being convicted of defaming them and things are about to go from bad to worse for the man once called "America's mayor."

According to Daily Beast reporter Jose Pagliery, the former mayor and Donald Trump lawyer is penniless and, because he can't pay his legal bills among the many other debts he is being sued for, he won't be able to put up much of a defense when his Georgia racketeering trial begins late next year.

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Judge sets trial date in Michigan voting machine tampering case against pro-Trump lawyers

Oakland County Circuit Judge Jeffery S. Matis on Wednesday set a March 4 trial date in the case against attorneys Matthew DePerno and Stefanie Lambert Junttila and former state Rep. Daire Rendon (R-Lake City) citing a need to move the case forward.

DePerno, Lambert Junttila and Rendon were each indicted as part of a probe into potential tampering with voting tabulators following the 2020 election where Joe Biden was elected president of the United States over former President Donald Trump.

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'Not so good' for Trump: Expert highlights decision that 'bodes very well for Jack Smith'

Former President Donald Trump is unlikely to prevail before the Supreme Court in his bid to be declared immune from prosecution in the 2020 election interference case, argued former prosecutor and legal expert Andrew Weissmann on MSNBC Wednesday evening.

And the reason we know this, he said, is that courts already ruled against Trump on a very similar issue.

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Analysts slam Trump lawyers’ 'juvenile and nonsensical' Grinch insult

In response to special counsel Jack Smith's request of the Supreme Court to expedite their decision on whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution, the former president's lawyers resorted to name calling.

They wrote, "It is as if the Special Counsel 'growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, 'I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming. … But how?'"

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'Inherently arbitrary': Trump ally Jeff Clark attacks Jack Smith over 2024 D.C. trial date

A former Donald Trump lawyer who was indicted alongside the ex-president in Georgia is hitting back against Jack Smith's D.C. criminal case.

Jeff Clark, the former Trump official who was recently smacked down for a "creative" attempt to avoid prosecution, was responding to a right-wing article suggesting the case being overseen by Judge Chutkan is the best hope for anyone to stop Trump.

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'Trump is the threat': Adviser to Biden's challenger disavows controversial remarks

The Democrat who announced a primary challenge against Joe Biden despite largely agreeing with the president on most issues found himself in hot water when he claimed Biden was a threat to democracy just like Trump is. Apparently, that spread to his campaign launch adviser.

Former GOP strategist turned Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt said he advised Dean Phillips on the initial launch of his campaign, but noted that he has "not advised the congressman since then." Yet that didn't stop Schmidt from having to disavow the controversial statement.

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'Juvenile and nonsensical': Ex-FBI official says court will ignore Trump's Grinch remark

Trump's attorneys might as well have filed their responses in crayon.

For Chuck Rosenberg, a former career federal prosecutor and senior FBI official, a Dr. Seuss reference employed by Trump's attorneys in formal court papers casting Jack Smith as the storybook villain of the "Grinch" was hard to understand.

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'Ordered hit from Donald Trump': David Axelrod slams Biden impeachment vote as political

The impeachment of President Joe Biden was ordered from Mar-a-Lago, according to Democratic operative David Axelrod.

"I do think this is an ordered hit from Donald Trump who wants to portray equivalence," he said during a panel discussion on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." "'They went after me!' [and now] 'We're going after him!'

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Judge Engoron evacuated from court due to fire set hours after Trump case hearing: report

Justice Arthur Engoron, the judicial official overseeing the civil fraud case in which Donald Trump has been found liable for fraud in real estate dealings, was reportedly evacuated from the court on Wednesday after a small fire was set in the court four hours after the ex-president's case had a hearing.

Engoron has tried to use gag orders to protect his staff from potential attacks from Trump fans. Trump has continued to appeal the orders, and has attacked the justice's law clerk when the gag orders are paused.

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'They're trying to get a guilty plea!' Trump admits Supreme Court might rule against him

During a lengthy and rambling speech at a campaign rally in Coralville, Iowa on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump turned the topic of the criminal indictments against himself, proclaiming that the charges were politically motivated and a "badge of honor."

"They could have done this three years ago," Trump said, and it would have been over and done, also referencing the civil fraud suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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