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'Be careful': Marjorie Taylor Greene warns a future president Trump could jail Joe Biden

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Saturday warned President Joe Biden that Donald Trump could win the presidency and then jail Biden.

The former president has consistently claimed the criminal prosecutions he is facing are directed by his political opponent, but the courts have yet to agree with that determination. On Friday, Judge Chutkan issued a decision in the D.C. criminal case finding that Trump isn't immune from prosecution just because he was president.

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'Dropping like flies': Trump predicts which Ron DeSantis ally will peel away next

After a series of departures from Ron DeSantis' political orbit, Donald Trump took a stab at which ally was next.

DeSantis' campaign has been rocked by the departures, including the most recent, Kristin Davidson, of the DeSantis Super PAC. Trump weighed in Saturday:

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Nixon lawyer shows 'where the worry should be' in Trump's D.C. criminal case

Donald Trump's presidential immunity argument isn't likely to be accepted by the Supreme Court, but he could still notch a win in another way, a former Nixon White House counsel said Saturday.

John Dean, a pivotal figure in the Watergate investigation, appeared on CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, where he was asked if Trump could potentially prevail on the immunity issue even after Judge Chutkan completely rejected it.

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Stephen Miller lashes out at Trump ruling: 'No immunity for Republican officeholders'

Former President Donald Trump's previous senior advisor, Stephen Miller, is not happy about Judge Chutkan's recent immunity ruling.

Chutkan, tasked with overseeing the criminal prosecution of Trump for alleged election subversion in the lead-up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, ruled on Friday that the former president is not immune from criminal charges just because he was president when the purported conduct occurred.

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'I'll vote for Biden': Top Koch group official rebels against Nikki Haley endorsement

Not all of Americans for Prosperity's (AFP) staff is on board with the group's endorsement of former UN ambassador Nikki Haley in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

Chris Maidment, who has been AFP's director of grassroots operations in New Hampshire since March of this year according to his LinkedIn profile, blasted the Koch-funded group's announcement that it would be backing Haley in a recent thread on X (formerly Twitter). Maidment indicated he may lose his job over his post, but held fast in his position that the group had lost its "principles" and that he would not be casting his ballot for the former South Carolina governor due to her foreign policy positions.

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'No-brainer': Legal expert predicts Trump's 'weak argument' will be crushed by High Court

Donald Trump might get the Supreme Court to weigh in on his "presidential immunity" argument as it relates to the criminal case he faces for alleged election subversion in D.C., but he isn't likely to win that fight, a legal expert said Saturday.

Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu appeared on CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, and was asked to weigh in on the immunity argument and its chances of success before the nation's highest court. Trump has appointed several members of the top court.

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Trump in for a 'bruising lesson' after picking a 'terrible political fight': analysis

Donald Trump is up for another knock-down after picking a losing political fight, according to a Saturday analysis.

The former president has recently revived his fight against the Affordable Care Act, after failing to deliver on promises to repeal it during his first term in the White House. This time won't be any different, according to a report on Obamacare from the Business Insider.

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'Americans have rights': Expert says Trump cases must be handled with 'deliberate speed'

The courts must handle Donald Trump's criminal cases with "deliberate speed" to ensure Americans are properly informed about the allegations at hand, a former federal prosecutor said Saturday.

Joyce Vance, who earlier in the day said Trump's lawyer claiming the former president can't be tried criminally if he retakes the White House is "contrary to the American notion of justice," wrote on her Substack that the recent decisions rejecting Trump's civil and criminal arguments for immunity meant "big losses for Trump."

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Donald Trump 'headed directly to conviction' after Chutkan ruling: Harvard law professor

Donald Trump's potential conviction for election subversion is now essentially guaranteed, according to Laurence H. Tribe, one of America's leading constitutional scholars.

Trump has consistently argued that he is protected by "presidential immunity" from any charges in connection with the 2020 election, because he was still president at the time of the allegedly illegal offenses. But that argument was shot down Friday, both in a civil case and then by Judge Chutkan in Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution in D.C.

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Former prosecutor pours cold water on latest claim from Trump's Georgia lawyer

Donald Trump's lawyer claiming the former president can't be tried criminally if he retakes the White House is "contrary to the American notion of justice," a former federal prosecutor said on Saturday.

Joyce Vance appeared on MSNBC's Yasmin Vossoughian Reports, where she was asked about comments made by one of Trump's attorneys. The lawyer was quoted warning about the "notion of the Republican nominee for president" might be kept from campaigning for the presidency because he is in court defending himself.

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'We have so much evidence': Trump says he wants judges to let him relitigate 2020 election

Donald Trump on Saturday said he hopes judges will let the 2020 election "be prosecuted" in court, bragging that he and his legal team have "so much evidence" that the election was stolen from him for President Joe Biden.

The former president was speaking in the Iowa city of Ankeny when he started talking about how he believes the 2020 election was "rigged." He said he believed that in part because he was told he would win if he hit certain metrics, and that he hit those but lost anyway.

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Newsmax execs furious with RNC over $4 million demand to carry GOP debate: report

Executives at conservative outlet Newsmax are furious with the Republican National Committee for attempts to shake them down for a $4 million commitment to carry a GOP debate.

According to a report from Axios, those complaints also include a belief that the RNC is manipulating who controls the debates.

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Trump campaign has received nearly $1.8 million from his clemency recipients: report

Donald Trump's questionable usage of his presidential pardon power before he left office is paying dividends for his 2024 presidential campaign as grateful recipients are showering his campaign with cash and, in some cases, using the media platforms to boost his chances of returning to the Oval Office.

According to a deep dive from the Washington Post, the former president and his campaign have taken in nearly $1.8 million from appreciative recipients and their families with more expected to come.

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