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Trump's mistrial motion smacked down by New York judge: 'Utterly without merit'

New York Judge Arthur Engoron has denied former President Donald Trump's motion for a mistrial in the civil fraud case against him and his two adult sons.

In a filing released on Friday, Engoron declared the motion "utterly without merit" and refused to even schedule a hearing to discuss it, dismissing it out of hand.

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Fani Willis case judge orders Trump codefendant to keep subpoeaned election records secret

Confidential 2020 election records subpoenaed by a co-defendant in Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case cannot be publicly disclosed, a judge ruled Friday.

Fulton County District Court Judge Scott McAfee's order came in response to Harrison Floyd’s request, made at a Nov. 3 hearing, court records show. It means he has access to the records, but they cannot be shared outside of his legal team.

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'Unhinged' MAGA lawyer ripped for wanting to make 'Trump’s darkest fascist impulses' real

As part of their Project 2025 agenda, Donald Trump's MAGA allies have — according to reports in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Axios — been thinking long and hard about the type of MAGA Republicans they would like to include in a second Trump Administration.

Its idea is to give the United States' federal government a thorough MAGA makeover and make sure that only devout, unquestioning loyalists are hired.

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Attack ad raging against 'insane' prosecution is first to test Trump's 2024 message

A new digital ad is testing out an attack line for Donald Trump's presidential campaign targeting the courts and law enforcement officials involved in his criminal trials.

The 60-second ad from the Article III Project accuses “activist” judges and prosecutors of abusing their power and weaponizing the criminal justice system against Trump, who has been indicted in four jurisdictions on 91 charges and found liable for fraud and sexual abuse in two separate cases, reported NBC News.

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Trump tripped by 88 pages of contributions that ‘exceed federal limits’

The Federal Election Commission sent Donald Trump’s presidential campaign committee an 88-page list of contributions that it says appear to exceed federal limits.

The FEC letter to Donald J. Trump For President 2024, Inc., flags contributions from 72 individuals. As in the past with Trump, several people gave relatively small amounts so often — sometimes multiple donations on the same day — that they appear addicted to giving the former president their money.

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Judge refuses Trump request to strike Jan. 6 riot from indictment

A federal judge has denied Donald Trump's request to remove language about the Jan. 6 insurrection from his indictment in the election subversion case.

District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan found that Trump's lawyers offered no evidence that language about the U.S. Capitol riot in the federal indictment had polluted the jury pool, and she slapped down “inflammatory and unsupported” allegations against special counsel Jack Smith's office, reported Politico's Kyle Cheney.

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Trump fraud trial witness contradicts himself on stand: reports

An expert witness for Donald Trump in his New York City civil fraud trial seemingly contradicted himself under cross examination Friday, according to reports

Steven Laposa took the stand to rebut what he called the State’s “flawed” interpretation of Trump’s financial condition documents, according to ABC News.

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Trump's meltdown over DOJ classified document ruling slapped aside by former U.S. attorney

Donald Trump launched an all-caps diatribe early Friday aimed at the Department of Justice for deciding not to charge President Joe Biden for having sensitive government documents stored in two unsecured locations.

On Thursday, CNN reported that special counsel Robert Hur will be issuing a full report on what his investigation found after a year-long probe — but is not expected to recommend criminal charges.

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Jenna Ellis lobs bizarre accusation at MAGA fans after complaint about bullying

Former Donald Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis continued her war on the former president's fans and followers Friday after spending a great deal of time battling with them on Thursday.

On Thursday Ellis, who recently accepted a plea deal as one of the 19 co-defendants in the election tampering RICO case in Georgia, got into an internet tussle with far-right activist Laura Loomer, who previously labeled her a "harlot."

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Trump claims his rants contained no 'threats or harassment' in latest gag order filing

Donald Trump has a First Amendment right to declare “If you go after me, I’m coming after you” on social media because there is no proof such messages constitute a “public threat,” his lawyers argue in a new filing.

This argument appears in a response to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s gag order motion filed Friday, three days before a slated hearing in the U.S. Court of Appeals.

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Trump's 'vermin' smears evoke 'sinister' flashbacks for Cuban exile

Donald Trump is targeting Latino voters by portraying himself as a victim of communist persecution — but he's giving one such voter horrific flashbacks.

The former president evoked Adolf Hitler when he described his political enemies as "vermin," but Miami Herald columnist Fabiola Santiago — one of the nation's 2 million Cuban exiles — said she was instead reminded of the communist dictator Field Castro.

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'I just don't get it': Ex-FBI agent stumped by evangelicals’ devotion to Trump

Although Donald Trump is by no means universally loved in Christianity, he continues to be incredibly popular among a certain type: white fundamentalist evangelical Protestants, who have a different set of beliefs from Catholics and Mainline Protestants.

Trump himself isn't an evangelical — he was raised Presbyterian. But he has had a strong bond with white evangelicals — a bond that Utah-based author Raymond A. Hult (a retired FBI special agent) struggles to understand in a letter published by the Salt Lake Tribune.

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Trump's Secret Service boast puts him at new risk if he testifies in Jan. 6 trial: expert

Should Donald Trump decide to take the stand in the federal trial where he faces charges of voting obstruction, he may see his previous testimony impeached by new comments he made about Jan. 6.

Reacting to boasts made by the former president to ABC's Jonathan Karl in a newly released audio tape, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin stated Trump not only confirmed testimony former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson made to a House select committee, but he's also set himself up to have his words thrown back in his face on the stand.

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