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GOP leader ruthlessly mocked after 'clown car' Kari Lake endorsement

House Republican Conference chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has decided to extend her endorsement to Kari Lake, the failed gubernatorial candidate in Arizona now running for Senate in that state — and she was derisively scorched for the move in The Arizona Republic on Friday.

"Stefanik used to be one of those seemingly normal, intelligent, conservative Republicans who one day painted her face white, stuck a red foam ball on her nose, slipped into a pair of enormous shoes and waddled off to join the Trump circus," wrote EJ Montini.

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Top evangelical could bury Trump's chance to win first major step to nomination: report

According to a report from Fox News, Iowa's most prominent evangelical leader could put a major crimp in Donald Trump's ability to win that state's GOP caucus that's regarded as the first major step to gaining the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nomination.

For the moment, Bob Vander Plaats who heads up The Family Leader, a powerhouse conservative organization in the state, is withholding his endorsement — and he recently suggested the former president is faltering in the polls.

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'Will wage war on any institution': Respected newspaper names Trump world's biggest threat

The Economist — a respected British newspaper nearly two centuries old — recently put former President Donald Trump at the top of its list of the world's greatest dangers heading into 2024.

According to Axios' summary, Economist staff said Trump presented a threat to both the United States and all over the globe. The paper reasoned that the 45th president of the United States getting elected to a second White House term would be seen as a green light for Russian President Vladimir Putin to "fight on" in Ukraine while potentially expanding his conquest to other former Eastern Bloc countries. The Economist also warned that if Trump were in office, China may attempt an invasion of Taiwan, "with catastrophic consequences," and that Trump could end up fumbling the Middle East as Iran and its proxy militias build influence.

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Evidence leaks have thrown Fulton County Trump trial months off schedule: experts

Former President Donald Trump's election racketeering trial in Georgia could be in flux for "many months" as the court tries to sort out leaks, legal experts suggested to Salon.

This comes as the lead prosecutor herself, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, conceded to the court that the trial may not be finished until late next year, or possibly even in 2025 — after the election has taken place — despite her previous assurance her office was ready to move forward and that she thought it would take four months.

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'Disoriented in a new way': Former federal prosecutor raises fresh worry about Trump

After noting that 21 states are currently in different stages of litigating whether Donald Trump can appear on ballots in 2024 as they wrestle with how to interpret the wording of the 14th Amendment, a former federal prosecutor suggested there should be additional worries over whether the former president is mentally competent to run for office.

In a column for the Washington Monthly, attorney James Zirin, a former federal prosecutor in New York's Southern District, noted Donald Trump's growing problem with facts, his confusion when giving speeches as well as pronounced slurring when speaking.

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Legal expert singles out key piece of evidence linking Trump to Jan. 6 violence

While Judge Aileen Cannon is doing all she can to delay Donald Trump's obstruction of justice trial in Florida being pursued by special counsel Jack Smith, the DOJ's case against the former president in Judge Tanya Chutkan's courtroom is on track where prosecutors are expected to tie him to inciting the violence that rocked the Cap[itol on Jan. 6.

According to a new report from NPR, prosecutors plan on using video evidence of Trump's actions on that day to present to the jury that they feel will prove he incited the insurrection that temporarily postponed the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

In an interview with NPR's Carrie Johnson, Georgetown University Law Center professor Mary McCord suggested prosecutors will make Trump's tweet about former vice president Mike Pence a centerpiece of their case that the former president precipitated the violence that day.

"I think that one of the most material things that he did during that time was his 2:24 p.m. tweet about Mike Pence, essentially arguing to all of his followers that Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what needed to be done and that was while he knew that the Capitol was under attack," McCord explained.

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The NPR report added, "McCord, who once led the Justice Department's National Security Division, said it's likely Trump will file more court papers as the trial looms to try to bar prosecutors from introducing specific pieces of evidence from Jan. 6."

In a recent filing, prosecutors noted that Trump has continued to laud Jan. 6 insurrectionists, including those who attacked Capitol police who are currently sitting in jail.

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'Her book is trash': Trump ally defends roasting Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'shameless' plug

The Trump family has been promoting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's new book, but that hasn't stopped one of the former president's biggest defenders from going on the attack against it.

Donald Trump Jr. interviewed Greene about the book on Thursday. Later that night, Laura Loomer, a self-proclaimed journalist who has earned herself personal shout outs at Trump rallies, went for the jugular against the lawmaker and her book.

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'Fate of the world' at risk if Trump wins another term: The Economist

Nov. 5, 2024 looms large for the "fate of the world."

The Economist published a story in its annual The World Ahead 2024 series (with an illustration of the 45th president's silhouette swallowing most of earth) and tees up next year's election for the White House as pivotal for the nation and indeed the entire world where it will come down to "tens of thousands of voters in just a handful of states."

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Trump takes 'victory lap' on gag order stay — but it’s not a 'win': legal analyst

Ex-President Donald Trump believed he prevailed against a "wicked attack" Thursday when a New York appellate court paused two gag orders imposed by Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over his ongoing civil fraud trial.

Legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who's been inside of the courtroom throughout the trial, reports via X (formerly Twitter), "NEW: Over on Truth Social, Trump's taking a victory lap after securing an interim stay of the gag orders in the NY case. A stay, and especially an interim stay pending a hearing/appeal, is a pause that goes back to the state of affairs before the order being appealed."

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'Caginess': Ex-prosecutor shows how Judge Cannon might be 'in the tank for Trump'

Right-wing Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, has made moves that signal she will likely delay the trial by several months, decreasing the chances it can be held before the election at all.

It's yet another move that shows that she is deferential to the defendant who appointed her to the bench in the first place, said former prosecutor Harry Litman on Thursday's edition of MSNBC's "All In."

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Trump's trials headed for a collision course over scheduling: report

Former President Donald Trump's four criminal trials are on a potential collision course with scheduling and dates — to the point where it's possible that only one of these trials could be heard before the 2024 election, reported The Messenger on Thursday evening.

"By all accounts, including her own, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has no intention of budging on the March 4, 2024, start date of Trump’s Washington D.C. trial on federal election-subversion charges," reported Steve Reilly and Darren Samuelsohn. "But even Chutkan, an appointee of President Barack Obama, doesn’t have total control over her schedule: Trump’s lawyers are pressing to get a pre-trial ruling from Chutkan on whether their client has absolute immunity from Special Counsel Jack Smith's criminal charges due to his status as a former president of the United States."

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Trump 'lost any benefit of the doubt': Conservative says ex-president is now a fascist

A former Republican columnist concedes: Trump is teetering toward fascism.

Time isn't proving kind for the case that Donald Trump's substance and positions so far in his third run for the White House are taking on fascist leanings, The Atlantic's Tom Nichols wrote in a column titled "Trump Crosses a Crucial Line".

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