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Former President Donald Trump has taken criticism in recent days for saying that immigrants "poison the blood" of America, as such rhetoric directly echoes that employed in the past by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

On Fox Business Tuesday, host David Asman questioned fellow Fox host Bret Baier about the wisdom of employing such language, which he said was hard to defend even for people who support the former president.

North Carolina election officials say they don't have the authority to take up a new effort to keep Donald Trump off the state ballot, CBS 17 reported.

The complaint, filed by an attorney named Brian Marti, cites the 14th Amendment and says that Trump is not eligible to run for president because his actions surrounding Jan. 6 meant “he engaged in an insurrection against the constitution.” The clause disqualifies insurrectionists from holding public office.

A well-known legal analyst, professor of law, and former U.S. Attorney issued a dire warning on the "great danger" of Donald Trump, acknowledging it is very possible he could win a second presidential term.

Joyce Vance, frequently seen on MSNBC and heard on the "SistersInLaw" podcast she co-hosts, on Tuesday, wrote: "Depending on where you live, it may seem impossible for the country to reelect Donald Trump. I hear that from a lot of people. But the truth is, it’s not. Some of our fellow citizens, inexplicably, do not see the fraud & risk of fascism in front of them."

Donald Trump's comments during a recent rally in New Hampshire need to be taken seriously because, even if he doesn't win the presidency, his words are having "a destabilizing political impact" on the nation, CNN's Stephen Collinson wrote Tuesday.

According to Collinson, even if people are skeptical of the meaning behind Trump latest speech — compared to Hitler's Mein Kampf because he suggested immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of America — "his aberrant behavior also requires an understanding of his inflammatory aims and a sober evaluation of the exact threat he poses to democratic values around the world, which are under threat from autocracies in China, Russia, Iran and elsewhere."

Former President Donald Trump doubled down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric at a recent campaign rally in New Hampshire, where he accused immigrants of "poisoning the blood of our country" and praised authoritarians like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

The New York Times' Trip Gabriel and the Washington Post's Aaron Blake have warned that Trump's "poisoning the blood" comments recall rhetoric that Adolf Hitler used in "Mein Kampf." In that 1925 book, Hitler argued that Jews were "poisoning the blood" of Germany.

Donald Trump's attorneys complained that federal prosecutors might be violating a court-ordered pause to his election subversion case by providing him with discovery material.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the halt last week while the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals considers Trump's "presidential immunity" claim, and his legal team made a filing Monday night arguing that special counsel Jack Smith was ignoring that and trying to "advance" the case by serving them with "thousands of pages of additional discovery" and a "draft exhibit list," reported The Messenger.

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.