Trump-loving Arizona GOP state senator calls COVID vaccines 'the Mark of the Beast' in unhinged rant

In newly filed court papers, former President Donald Trump on Monday made a fresh push to get defamation claims against him dismissed by saying his denial that he raped author E. Jean Carroll was truthful – and a jury has already agreed with him.

Trump was found liable of sexual abuse last month after claims by Carroll that he attacked her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. But the jury did not find him liable of rape.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday, demanding an "unredacted copy" of the Justice Department appointment memoradum authorizing special counsel Jack Smith's investigations of former President Donald Trump.

Smith is overseeing two investigations that touch on the former president: the ongoing federal probe into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and the unauthorized retention of classified documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club, which sources say is wrapping up with a charging decision imminent.

Fox News largely let Donald Trump off the hook for misrepresenting the facts as president, but the conservative network's website issued an extensive fact check of falsehoods he has told about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Florida governor has officially challenged the ex-president for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, but Fox News said Trump had been "enraging Republicans" by attacking DeSantis since three days before last year's midterm elections and noted that failed to hurt his support for re-election.