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Donald Trump will stand trial once again this week for defaming a woman he sexually abused, and a legal expert threw cold water on his last-minute attempt to delay the case.

The former president's attorneys filed a request Friday afternoon asking U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to push back the start date so that Trump can attend his mother-in-law's funeral. The request was denied and the trial will begin as scheduled on Tuesday.

Minor delays in Donald Trump's criminal trials could build to have a "cascading effect" that would push all his cases back until after the 2024 general election, former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance warned Monday.

Her warning came on the day that the presidential nomination process officially begins with the Iowa caucuses.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday posted a fresh demand to release the violent criminals who attacked a coequal branch of government on his behalf.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump implied that the pro-Palestinian demonstrators who rallied outside the White House over the weekend were just as bad as the MAGA rioters who broke into the United States Capitol and sent lawmakers of both parties fleeing for their lives.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was floored to see Donald Trump throw fellow GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy "under the bus" as the Iowa Caucus looms.

Ramaswamy has spent the majority of his time in the GOP primary deferring to the former president.

CNN's Donie O'Sullivan spoke with supporters of Donald Trump who have become foes of the MAGA movement in Arizona after they revealed they were going to follow the law.

Speaking to the network as part of a special on election officials, Lisa Marra, former elections director for Cochise County, Arizona, a lifelong Republican, said that she gave up when Trump supporters began flooding her phone with threats and attacks. After doing the job for six years, she left.

Donald Trump was asked about the bomb threat on Judge Arthur Engoron on the final day of his fraud trial in New York.

Trump popped into a Casey's gas station where he grabbed a few boxes of pizza when CNN's Kate Sullivan asked Trump if he had any reaction to police responding to the threat on the day of the closing arguments.

A group of political panelists suggested that Trump should keep former President Jimmy Carter's name out of his mouth.

An all-star CNN panel walked through the upcoming 24 hours before the Iowa Caucus after Donald Trump took the stage in a rally with a much longer campaign speech than typically seen this cycle.

Legal analyst Lisa Rubin was in the New York courtroom last week during the final day of Donald Trump's fraud trial. She explained that it became undeniable that the presiding judge, Arthur Engoron, knew that the ex-president "played" him.

As Trump begins to attack a new judge, this time in the E. Jean Carroll case, there's a new opportunity for a new Trump target.

Former President Donald Trump told his supporters to attend Iowa caucuses even if it literally kills them.

During a Sunday speech in Iowa, Trump urged attendees to participate in a caucus for him on Monday.

The internet broke into hysterics on Sunday when Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) told a crowd of Iowa supporters of Donald Trump that the Republican front-runner would give anything to people out of his overwhelming generosity.

Speaking in Indianola, Van Orden explained to the audience, "They don’t understand that Trump will stand for you in a time of need. He will literally give you the shirt off his back, and he loves his country and his family more than you’ll ever know."

Judge Lewis Kaplan told Donald Trump on Sunday that he could have the leeway to attend his mother-in-law's funeral but that he won't allow for the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial to be delayed.

Trump tried to delay the proceedings this week, citing funeral plans for Melania Trump's recently deceased mother. But, according to E. Jean Carroll and her lawyers, one of the days that Trump asked off wasn't for a funeral but for a rally in New Hampshire. The trial date for the case has been set for months.

A protester interrupted former President Donald Trump's campaign event just a day before the Iowa caucus.

During a speech in Indianola on Sunday, Trump was speaking about Ron DeSantis when a protester accused him of wrongly "taking millions" as president.

Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, former solicitor general Neal Katyal scoffed at the idea the Supreme Court would accept an appeal from Donald Trump's lawyers about presidential immunity after they are expected to lose at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Speaking with MSNBC host Jen Psaki, Katyal was asked to use his history of speaking before the nation's highest court to predict how it will all play out.

"You have argued, you spent a lot of time in the Supreme Court, arguing cases, thinking about the Supreme Court a lot of time. What is your thought on here and what could happen?" host Psaki pressed.

''I don't think the Supreme Court is likely to hear the case, Jen," he replied. "I mean, Trump's claims are so unhinged that the president can do whatever he wants and murder people with Seal Team Six— this is crazy."

"The Supreme Court, I don't think, is going to have much appetite for this," he continued. "So I'm looking for three things. I'm looking for the rationale of the Court of Appeals decision, the timing of the Court of Appeals decision, and then technically, do they stay the mandate? Do they allow the March 4th trial date to proceed as is."

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"I'm suspecting that they're going to do all of those things and basically hew closely to what Judge [Tanya] Chutkan found already, which means that this trial can go forward. I think it's doubtful at this moment," he added.

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