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Donald Trump's "MAGA shock troops" are signaling that if he's elected in 2024, he will be punishing his enemies, including many of the journalists who reported on him for the past 8 years — an endeavor that will be "Job No. 1," Robin Abcarian writes in The Los Angeles Times.

Abcarian says that demonizing the press is a tactic that Trump has long employed, as evidenced by past comments where he's said the press is “truly the enemy of the people" and that journalists are “scum” and “the absolute worst.” Trump has also said he wants to weaken the country's libel laws to make it easier to sue the press — with the support of some Supreme Court justices.

U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell reportedly chastised Joe Sibley, an attorney for Rudy Giuliani, after he missed a key detail on court documents.

During the third day of Giuliani's defamation trial, expert witness Dr. Ashlee Humphreys testified that it would take millions to restore the reputations of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after they were falsely accused of rigging the 2020 presidential election.

Donald Trump's attorneys were given "marching orders" in December 2020 not to get the then-president's hopes up about overturning his election loss, according to new evidence turned up in an election subversion case.

CNN obtained audio recordings of attorney Kenneth Chesebro telling Michigan state prosecutors last week that he and other Trump lawyers were given that clear instruction before going into the Oval Office for a photo opportunity with the ex-president two days after the Wisconsin Supreme Court had rejected his lawsuit to nullify the state's election results.

Former President Donald Trump is selling pieces of his suit he wore when his mugshot photograph was taken in Georgia earlier this year — and his former communications aide Alyssa Farah Griffin is upset that people are falling for his scam.

Thus far, Trump has spent over $37 million on legal fees, with another $130 million in donor money being steered to the cost of his trials. He announced the suit sell-off Tuesday as a way to cover the costs.

Attorneys for Donald Trump are now comparing Jack Smith to the "Grinch," while alleging the Special Counsel is attempting to disenfranchise millions of American voters by trying to convict the ex-president.

"The prosecution has one goal in this case: To unlawfully attempt to try, convict, and sentence President Trump before an election in which he is likely to defeat President Biden. This represents a blatant attempt to interfere with the 2024 presidential election and to disenfranchise the tens of millions of voters who support President Trump’s candidacy," the ex-president's attorneys wrote in a motion opposing expedited review of Trump's already-rejected claim of absolute immunity from prosecution because he was President when he attempted to overturn the 2020 election results.

Hunter Biden accused "MAGA" Republicans of lying and blasted the "unrelenting Trump attack machine" in a passionate speech on Capitol Hill to set the record straight on his business dealings and personal finances after House GOP committee chairs refused his offer to testify before Congress in public. The chairs threatened him with contempt of Congress if he did not testify behind closed doors.

"Let me state as clearly as I can," the President's son stated unequivocally Wednesday morning, minutes after he was scheduled to testify (videos below). "My father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of Burisma. Not in my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not in my investments at home nor abroad, and certainly not as an artist."

Donald Trump hasn't been shy about stating his dictatorial ambitions, and his campaign cemented that narrative by commenting on his threats.

The former president and 2024 Republican frontrunner, along with some of his allies, have openly threatened to use government powers against their enemies, suggesting they'll invoke the Insurrection Act upon taking office, pardon Jan. 6 rioters, create immigrant detention camps and stack the government with loyalists — and The Bulwark columnist A.B. Stoddard said those threats should set voters on edge.

Donald Trump will not be able to use "presidential immunity" as a defense in a defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll after he claimed that he did not rape her.

A three-judge panel on the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold a federal judge's previous decision against Trump. The court found that Trump had waived his presidential immunity, and rejected his attempts to assert it as a defense now.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) agreed to hear the appeal of a January 6 defendant. The implications could impact former President Donald Trump's pending criminal trial.

SCOTUS granted several writs of certiorari Wednesday, in which it agrees to take up cases heard in federal appellate courts. The last writ granted on Wednesday was in the case of Fischer, Joseph W. v. United States, which involves a participant in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

An army of internet trolls is going to war for former President Donald Trump with the latest artificial intelligence tools, reported The New York Times on Wednesday — and many of their top targets are women and minorities.

"Cheered on by Mr. Trump, the group traffics freely in misinformation, artificial intelligence and digital forgeries known as deepfakes. Its memes are riddled with racist stereotypes, demeaning tropes about L.G.B.T.Q. people and broad scatological humor," reported Ken Bensinger.

Prosecutors in Michigan will present their case Wednesday against 15 state Republicans charged for acting as false electors for former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, WXYZ reported.

The charges against the accused false electors were announced by Attorney General Dana Nessel's office back in July, and all pleaded not guilty except one, James Renner, who had all criminal charges against him dropped in October thanks to a cooperation deal.

Former President Donald Trump is claiming that because he was still president in late 2020 and early 2021, he enjoys "immunity" from prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case. That "immunity," Trump claims, renders the case invalid.

Smith considers Trump's immunity-from-prosecution argument in the case ludicrous, and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has agreed. In a December 1 ruling, Chutkan stressed that the office of the presidency "does not confer a lifelong get-out-of-jail-free pass."