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Jack Smith plans to call Trump cellphone tracker as expert in Jan. 6 case: report

Special counsel Jack Smith plans to call an expert who tracked former President Donald Trump's cell phone use, including his activity on Twitter, during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, reports the Messenger.

This information was revealed Monday in a three-page filing in Smith's federal Washington D.C. election interference case against the former president, the Messenger reports.

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Trump kept cozy with Mar-a-Lago ex-staffer after classified docs raid: report

Trump kept chummy ties with Mar-a-Lago ex-staffer months after the FBI raided the property to confiscate classified records, according to an exclusive CNN report filed Monday night.

The 45th president maintained a pattern of good rapport with various key people tied to the June indictment accusing him of criminally hoarding classified documents at the Florida estate, according to the report. Trump pleaded not guilty.

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Mary Trump: My uncle's pricey witnesses tanked his New York fraud case

Former President Donald Trump's niece Mary said in a new Substack post Monday that her uncle's decision to spend millions of dollars on an expert witness in the New York civil fraud trial blew up in his face.

"Donald’s expert witnesses were paid an hourly rate ranging from $350 to $1,595 for their testimony on the NYC fraud trial … to a total of around $2.45 MILLION," wrote the psychologist. "Much of the money came from Donald’s Save America PAC."

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'Litany of all the lies': Trump's ex-lawyer on why former president ducked testifying

Former White House attorney Ty Cobb is convinced reason finally won out over Donald Trump's ego Monday.

Cobb appeared on CNN Monday night to discuss the former president's decision not to take the stand in his $250 million civil fraud trial.

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This isn't 'Putin's Russia': Legal expert smacks down Trump's presidential immunity play

Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court Monday to expedite a review of whether former President Donald Trump can claim presidential immunity in his federal election interference case in a bid experts say could short-circuit the former president's delay tactics.

But Trump is ultimately likely to lose his gambit to delay the trial until after the 2024 election, argued former solicitor general Neal Katyal on MSNBC Monday evening.

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Trump claims ExxonMobil 'fleeing our country' — but then admits company relocated to Texas

"Businesses are fleeing our country," is what ex-President Donald Trump said during a New York Republican event Saturday, according to The Messenger.

"It's business-unfriendly and they're going to other places," Trump insisted.

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Angry Trump spokesperson erupts over Jack Smith's request that SCOTUS rule on immunity

Donald Trump's spokesperson is furious that Special Counsel Jack Smith is trying to "leapfrog" the former president's delay tactics by taking his presidential immunity argument directly to the Supreme Court.

"Crooked Joe Biden's henchman, Deranged Jack Smith is so obsessed with interfering in the 2024 Presidential Election with the goal of preventing President Trump from retaking the Oval Office," reads the statement, flagged by the Guardian and attributed to a Trump spokesperson.

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Expert warns Jan. 6 cases are 'out the window' if Jack Smith gambit backfires

If Trump has an ace up his sleeve and can notch a win in the nation's highest court, multiple cases could be done for.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, appearing on CNN's "The Lead" with Jake Tapper, spelled out how Trump's chances for victories should the Supreme Court take up special counsel Jack Smith's request and rule in his favor on whether the 45th president is immune from criminal prosecution for the spate of crimes he's alleged to have committed while serving as commander in chief.

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Fani Willis' case is also 'doomed' if Jack Smith's SCOTUS bid fails: legal expert

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ Georgia election interference case will be “doomed” if the Supreme Court rules Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case, legal analyst Elie Honig said Monday.

“If Donald Trump is to win here, obviously Jack's Smith federal election interference case is out the window,” Honig said.

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'Surprise!' Judge dryly mocks Giuliani's attorney after he makes another legal slip

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell was reportedly frustrated on Monday with an attorney representing Rudy Giuliani in his defamation trial related to the 2020 election.

Attorney Joseph Sibley followed his opening statements for Giuliani by objecting to evidence presented by an attorney for former election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

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Trump shrugs off 'day one' dictator comment: 'Said in a joking manner'

Former President Donald Trump said Monday he was just joking when he said he would only be a dictator on "day one."

Trump was responding on Truth Social to New York Times writer Peter Baker's column on the dictatorship comments he reportedly repeated over the weekend.

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WSJ columnist argues 'tyrant' accusations fit Biden more than Trump

Former President Donald Trump has set off alarm bells among experts for anti-democratic proposals, including ideas to transform the entire civil service into a partisan army, strip independence from federal agencies, and use the Justice Department to go after political enemies.

But to hear it from Wall Street Journal editorial board member Allysia Finley, President Joe Biden is has made the exact same threat to democracy — because of various executive orders he's made and because Trump has been charged with crimes while Biden happened to be in office.

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Giuliani lawyer compares client to Amber Heard and civil suit to 'death penalty': report

Rudy Giuliani’s attorney Monday compared his client to Johnny Depp’s ex-wife, likened civil litigation to the death penalty and wrapped up his opening statement in about five minutes, according to a reporter in the courtroom.

Joe Sibley’s slapdash summary came after Giuliani infuriated the Washington D.C. civil court judge overseeing two Georgia poll worker's $43 million civil defamation case by strolling into court late.

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