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    Trump Suggests He Will Testify In 2020 Election Trial

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    Former President Donald Trump strongly suggested he plans to take the stand in his own defense in the event that he’s indicted over his false claims about the 2020 election.

    The former president took to Truth Social on Wednesday to complain about the legal scrutiny he has faced throughout his political existence. During a series of posts he signaled he’ll testify when and if his election lies get put on trial in connection with January 6.

    “We’ll have fun on the stand with all of these people that say the Presidential Election wasn’t Rigged and Stollen [sic],” Trump posted, adding an all-caps claim it’ll be “THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY!!!”

    Trump’s remarks come about a week after he announced Special Counsel Jack Smith sent him a letter informing the ex-president that he is a “target” of the investigation into the January 6th Capitol riot. The letter indicates Smith will indict Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and Smith has indicted Trump already on the seperate matter of his mishandling of classified documents.

    Giuliani Admits He Made ‘False’ Statements About Georgia Election Workers 

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    Donald Trump’s former lawyer and New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani made a major admission on Tuesday.

    According to The Hill, Giuliani is dropping efforts to challenge claims from two Georgia election workers that he falsely accused the pair of manipulating ballots in the 2020 election.

    In 2021, two Fulton County, GA poll workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, sued Giuliani for defamation over statements he made falsely claiming they played a role in fixing the election. The election workers also filed a defamation lawsuit against One America News Network.

    In a two-page statement filed Tuesday, Giuliani said that he will “not contest” that those statements were “false” and “carry meaning that is defamatory.” In his statement, Giuliani also said he will not challenge the “factual elements of liability” regarding the election workers’ allegations of “intentional infliction of emotional distress and other related tort claims.”

    However, his statement maintains that those concessions do not affect his argument that the statements and opinions he made were “constitutionally protected.” The statement also notes that he is conceding on these allegations “for the purposes of deciding this case on legal issues.”

    A series of probes led by Georgia’s Secretary of State’s office and special agents within the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation found those allegations against the poll workers “were false and unsubstantiated.”

    Mark Levin Slams Trump Appointed Judge In Classified Docs Case

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    Fox News host Mark Levin unleashed on Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon after she ruled the classified document case against the former president would take place before the upcoming election.

    Last week, Judge Cannon set a May 2024 date for the trial into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents taken from the White House. (RELATED: Judge Sets Date For Highly Anticipated Classified Docs Trial)

    Cannon’s ruling also denied Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s team’s request to have the trial set for December 2023. However, Levin directed his anger at Cannon, adding that she “let the country down” during a Sunday airing of Life, Liberty, and Levin.

    “Judge Cannon, in Florida, you let the country down. This trial should have been moved to after the election. You just gave your imprimatur and the imprimatur of the federal judiciary to the interference in this election,” said the conservative firebrand.

    Levin then demanded that the judge investigate alleged extortion that occurred from DOJ prosecutors:

    Furthermore, you haven’t even looked into a matter which you have the right to look into without any motion from defense counsel. Involving an extortion that took place. What am I talking about? Stanley Woodward, an attorney for Mr. Snyder, who is the codefendant in this documents case, said a prosecutor on Mr. Smith’s team. And this is a guy who walked into Judge Cannon’s court the other day. He’s the head of the counterintelligence section. He’s really the guy, in part the right hand to Smith who’s pushing this agenda. That guy walked into court this week and argued for certain motions against certain motions by the defense on classified information when his butt should have been thrown out of that courtroom. Why? Stanley Webber, an attorney for Mr. Snyder, said, A prosecutor? That prosecutor I’d just mentioned Mr. Smith’s team trying to secure a cooperation from his. Klein, in other words, to become a witness for the state, said that Mr. Woodward’s application for a judgeship in Washington would be considered more favorably if he and his client turned against Mr. Trump. Mr. Woodward has filed a complaint with the chief U.S. judge in Washington alleging prosecutorial conduct. In other words, the right hand man to Smith. According to this allegation, extorted. The lawyer. For the codefendant to turn state’s evidence against Donald Trump. You have a federal judge in Florida putting everything else aside. She’s going to go forward with the case. Doesn’t she want to know what took place here? And we’re waiting for an Obama judge in Washington, D.C., who are notoriously anti-Trump and pro Biden. To resolve this matter all being done in secret. All being done in secret.

    Hunter Biden’s Attorney Files Ethics Complaint Against Marjorie Taylor Greene

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    Marjorie Taylor Greene -Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, via Wikimedia Commons

    Hunter Biden’s legal team filed an ethics complaint against Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday after the Congresswoman displayed lewd images of the President’s son during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee earlier in the week.

    On Wednesday, a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing featured testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who allege that prosecutors slow-walked the investigation into Hunter Biden.

    During her time to question the witnesses, the Georgia Congresswoman held up posters that showed graphic sexual photos from the laptop hard drive that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden. The faces of other individuals involved in the sex acts were censored with black boxes, but Biden’s face was left visible.

    In a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), Biden’s attorney Abbe David Lowell slammed Greene’s actions.

    “Now more than ever, the House has a duty to make loud and clear that it does not endorse, condone, or agree with her outrageous, undignified conduct and brazen violations of the standards of official conduct that do not reflect creditably on the House of Representatives,” Lowell wrote.

    The OCE is a non-partisan, independent entity previously established by the House that reviews allegations of misconduct involving lawmakers, officers, and House staffers and, if warranted, refers matters to the Ethics Committee.

    Report: Georgia DA Planning to Indict Trump Next Month

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    Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is reportedly planning to indict former President Trump next month on racketeering charges.

    Left-leaning publication The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell cited two sources close to the matter in an exclusive report detailing the possibility of racketeering charges, which would be based on “influencing witnesses and computer trespass.

    “The racketeering statute in Georgia requires prosecutors to show the existence of an ‘enterprise’ – and a pattern of racketeering activity that is predicated on at least two ‘qualifying’ crimes,” Lowell explains.

    The report added that while the “specific evidence was not clear” the “charge regarding influencing witnesses could include Trump’s conversations with Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger.” Trump was recorded asking Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes, his losing margin in the state, in order to be declared the victor. Lowell also details the potential computer trespass charges:

    For the computer trespass charge, where prosecutors would have to show that defendants used a computer or network without authority to interfere with a program or data, that would include the breach of voting machines in Coffee county, the two people said.

    The breach of voting machines involved a group of Trump operatives – paid by the then Trump lawyer Sidney Powell – accessing the voting machines at the county’s election office and copying sensitive voting system data.

    The report notes that the copied data was then “uploaded to a password-protected site from where election deniers could download the materials as part of a misguided effort to prove the 2020 election had been rigged.”

    Judge Sets Date For Highly Anticipated Classified Docs Trial

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    Donald Trump via Gage Skidmore Flickr

    Judge Aileen Cannon has set a date for the highly anticipated classified documents trial for former President Donald Trump.

    Judge Cannon has set a May 2024 date for the trial into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents taken from the White House.

    Despite Judge Cannon’s decision to deny Trump’s legal team’s request to indefinitely delay the matter, she disagreed with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s requested trial date of December this year.

    “By conservative estimates, the amount of discovery in this case is voluminous and likely to increase in the normal course as trial approaches. And, while the Government has taken steps to organize and filter the extensive discovery, no one disagrees that Defendants need adequate time to review and evaluate it on their own accord,” Cannon wrote.

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    Trump Aide Expected to Testify To Grand Jury Investigating Jan. 6

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    A former White House aide to President Trump is planning to testify before the grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and the then-president’s alleged efforts to overturn the election.

    Former Trump aide Will Russell, who was reportedly with Trump on Jan 6., is expected to appear Thursday before the grand jury in Washington. Russell was subpoenaed by the grand jury last year.

    According to The Hill, Russell served in the White House as a special assistant to the former president and the deputy director of presidential advance operations and also continued working with Trump after he left office.

    Earlier this week, Trump revealed that special counsel Jack Smith informed him that he was a target of the investigation looking into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a signal that Trump’s third indictment is imminent.

    The grand jury is expected to meet Thursday, which is also the deadline for Trump to appear before the grand jury, which he is not expected to do.

    Other White House aides including Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Hope Hicks have also reportedly met with the grand jury.

    DeSantis Defends Trump After Latest Criminal Indictment News

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    Republicans have rushed to defend former president Donald Trump after news of his latest indictment.

    Presidential candidate and Trump rival Ron DeSantis said during an interview on Tuesday that if elected President of the United States, he will clear the ranks at the FBI and Department of Justice.

    DeSantis made the remarks during an interview on CNN with host Jake Tapper when asked about the former president saying that he has received a letter informing him that he is the target in an investigation into his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

    “If Jack Smith has evidence of criminality, should Donald Trump be held accountable?” Tapper asked.

    “So, here’s the problem. This country is going down the road of criminalizing political differences,” DeSantis responded. “I think that’s wrong. Alvin Bragg stretched the statute in Manhattan to be able to try to target Donald Trump. Most people, even people on the Left, acknowledge if that wasn’t Trump, that case would not have likely been brought against a normal civilian.”

    “And so you have a situation where the Department of Justice, FBI had been weaponized against people they don’t like, and the number one example that happened to be against Donald Trump with the Russia collusion,” he said. “That was not a legitimate investigation; that was being done to try to drive Trump out of office. And so what I’ve said, as president, my job is to restore a single standard of justice to end weaponization of these agencies.”

    “We’re going to have a new FBI director on day one; we’re going to have big changes at the Department of Justice,” he added. “Americans across the political spectrum need to have confidence that what is going on is based on the rule of law, not based on what political tribe you’re in.”

    Georgia Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Effort To Halt Election Probe

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    Donald Trump via Gage Skidmore Flickr

    The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously shut down former President Trump’s attempt to stop a potential indictment for tampering with the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state.

    In a five-page decision issued Monday afternoon, all nine justices of the Georgia Supreme Court said Trump’s lawyers had failed to make a persuasive case for shutting down the inquiry led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. She has signaled that indictments are possible in the election-related probe in the next few weeks as a grand jury convenes to consider possible charges.

    The Georgia court said there was no reason to permit that in these circumstances.

    “He makes no showing that he has been prevented fair access to the ordinary channels,” the high court wrote in an opinion not attributed to any specific justice. “He is asking this Court to step in and itself decide the motions currently pending in the superior court. This is not the sort of relief that this Court affords, at least absent extraordinary circumstances that Petitioner has not shown are present here.”

    Willis’ probe reportedly focuses on pressure Trump and his allies put on Georgia officials the weeks after the 2020 election to try to reverse Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the Peach State. A key piece of evidence in the probe is an audio recording of a call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to “find 11,780 votes,” which would have pushed Trump across the threshold to claim victory.

    Various election officials and national GOP figures have testified during the special grand jury probe.

    Trump’s attorneys also filed a petition in March with Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, asking that Willis’ probe be halted. However, McBurney has yet to rule on that motion. 

    Trump Notified He Is Target In Justice Department’s J6 Investigation

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    On Tuesday former President Trump confirmed that he is a target of the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation focusing on his efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. 

    Trump said in a post on Truth Social he received the “target letter” Sunday evening.

    “Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter (again it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an arrest and indictment.”

    Attorney Merrick Garland previously said he planned to pursue anyone who “unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power” but had yet to bring any formal charges against the former president.

    Recently, Prosecutors have called a number of Trump allies before the grand jury, including Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and former aide Hope Hicks. Prosecutors reportedly asked questions about whether the former president was aware he had lost the election, as demonstrating intent is key for some charges. 

    It’s unclear what specific charges Trump could face if prosecutors decide to move ahead.

    An indictment would mark the third time this year Trump has been charged.

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