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On Saturday afternoon Donald Trump launched an assault on Bob Vander Plaats, head of the Iowa-based nonprofit Family Leader Foundation, for endorsing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) before the Iowa caucuses begin.

On Nov. 21 the influential evangelical leader threw his support behind the Florida governor who has been fighting an uphill battle in the state to overtake the former president in a key battle for the 2024 Republican party presidential nomination.

According to Vander Plaats, "I think America would be well served to have a choice, and I really believe Ron DeSantis should be that guy. And I think Iowa is tailor-made for him to win this.”

Trump apparently took exception to the idea of DeSantis being the "guy" and took to Truith Social to attack the evangelical leader while also accusing him of selling his endorsement.

"Bob Vander Plaats, the former High School Accountant from Iowa, will do anything to win, something which he hasn’t done in many years. He’s more known for scamming Candidates than he is for Victory, but now he’s going around using Disinformation from the Champions of that Art, the Democrats," he wrote.

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According to MSNBC analyst Sarah Posner, a Truth Social rant last week where Donald Trump promised to "cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists," employed coded language to his evangelical followers that their time is coming if he is re-elected in 2024.

As Posner notes the use of "cast out" by the former president where he also promised, "we will demolish the Deep State, we will expel the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists," has special meaning to far-right Christians who want a takeover of the American government.

Two Republican county supervisors in a solidly red Arizona county are costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in multiple unsuccessful election-related crusades in the courts.

The Guardian reports that Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd — who both sit on the Cochise County Board of Supervisors — have now been subpoenaed as part of a possible investigation by the Arizona Attorney General's office. Both Crosby and Judd have tried consistently to switch the county's ballot-counting process to a hand count rather than a machine count, resulting in various lawsuits against the county, along with subsequent legal settlements totaling roughly $300,000. Despite Cochise County voting for former President Donald Trump in 2020 by a 19-point margin, Crosby refused to certify his county's election results even after a judge compelled him to do so.

Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who currently serves as CEO of the Trump Media & Technology Group behind Truth Social, got a rude reception from MAGA fans for using the struggling platform to sell $75 bottles of "Patriot" wine from his vineyard.

During the Thanksgiving weekend the former lawmaker posted a link to the Devin Nunes Wines website featuring a 12-bottle $530 "Founders Club" deal on his wines — with individual bottles selling for as much as $75.

During a panel discussion on MSNBC on Saturday morning, the former spokesperson for Attorney General Merrick Garland dropped the hammer on Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon by accusing her of trying to disrupt the multiple trials of Donald Trump.

Appearing with fill-in host Charles Coleman Jr., Anthony Coley was asked about Cannon's slowness in bringing Trump to trial in the federal obstruction of justice case brought by special counsel Jack Smith over stolen government documents stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, including a multitude of boxes found stored in a bathroom.

Coley was asked by the MSNBC host, "We haven't heard much from Jack Smith understandably. We have not heard much from Merrick Garland the closer that these trials get pushed towards an election. Would you advise either of them to say something publicly about the need to either hold off or the need to press the gas? And if so, which one?"

"I don't imagine them to say anything else out of the courtroom," he began. "Listening to you talk about this is really interesting because my takeaway is that Judge Aileen Cannon, in this case, she feels like she's a referee who is trying to rig the game before any of them starts. That is how I view this."

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"The fact of the matter is that the evidence in this documents case is so overwhelming, we are not talking about George, something that a witness may or may not have overheard secondhand in a coffee shop," he added. "We are talking about, here, solid evidence, firsthand accounts from people who were in Donald Trump's employ, with photographic evidence, videotapes from Mar-a-Lago; the government's case here is airtight, I would note."

"They are really successful in winning these types of cases — up to 98 percent of the time," he added.

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Appearing on MSNBC on Thanksgiving weekend, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner stated that judges are getting fed up with assertions made by lawyers for Donald Trump trying to forestall gag orders that would bar him from launching attacks on prosecutors, judges and courthouse employees.

Speaking with host Katie Phang about a new motion made over Thanksgiving by the Department of Justice to rein in the former president, Kirschner claimed the arguments made by Trump's lawyers that he can't be held responsible for violent threats aimed at his targets by his supporters isn't going to fly with judges much longer.

"I sat through the argument earlier this week in the D.C. Court of Appeals case, regarding the constitutionality of the gag order and there was discussion about what was going on in other jurisdictions," Kirschner explained. "Similarly, Judge [Tanya] Chutkan was presiding over the trial in Donald Trump's case, has regularly talked about what's going on in other jurisdictions."

"So I think this evidence will probably be accepted by the appellate court and Donald Trump's lawyers, as recently as yesterday, filed their reply and they continue to ask the judges to just check your common sense at the door," he continued. "You don't need to bring it with you to bear on this issue. One thing stood out about the letter that Trump's team filed yesterday; they say, again, Mr. Trump did not directly threaten [Judge Arthur Engoron clerk] Miss Greenfield. That is the broken peg on which they continue to try to hang their legal argument."

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"The good news, Katie, is in court on Monday, Judge Patricia Millett directly knocked that down," he elaborated, "She said, and I quote, 'there is a clear pattern here.' Donald Trump issued a statement, and witnesses get threatened. So, I think the judges are beyond this nonsensical claim that Donald Trump just says things that are hyper-critical of the witnesses who are expected to testify against them, and he should bear no sort of consequences when his supporters instantly rise to his call and begin intimidating, threatening, and harassing the witnesses."

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Newly anointed chairman of News Corporation and Fox Corporation Lachlan Murdoch, having taken over from his father Rupert Murdoch, is facing a perilous future as the media empire, particularly the Fox News division, contends with a flood of lawsuits including a multi-billion lawsuit filed by Smartmatic over election fraud claims.

Having weathered a similar defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems that resulted in a stunning $787 million settlement, the heir to the News Corporation throne will attempt to oversee the company through the stormy waters that also include claims made by multiple pensions funds linked to the admission made by Fox in the Dominion lawsuit as well as former employees who have filed multi-million dollar lawsuits against the company.