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Atlanta’s ABC affiliate reports: Either Fani Willis goes or Nathan Wade does – that was the ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Scott McAfee on Friday in the Georgia election interference case. Channel 2 Action News confirms that Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has accepted special prosecutor Nathan Wade’s resignation from the election interference case. In the letter, it says …

Reuters reports: A federal judge on Friday denied Donald Trump’s request to dismiss a criminal case that charges him with illegally holding onto classified documents. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida came just hours after a hearing in which his lawyers argued that the central charge in the case is improperly vague. Cannon, who was appointed …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge appeared reluctant Thursday to dismiss the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump after his lawyers argued for hours that the case trampled on the former president’s rights. As Trump looked on in the courtroom, his attorneys pressed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to throw out the case, arguing he was legally entitled to …

The New York Times reports: Less than two weeks before Donald J. Trump is set to go on trial on criminal charges in Manhattan, the prosecutors who brought the case proposed a delay of up to 30 days, a startling development in the first prosecution of a former American president. The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which accused Mr. Trump of …

“They released Hillary Clinton. She hammered her phones. She used all sorts of acid testing and everything else. They call it BleachBit but it’s essentially acid that will destroy everything within ten miles. I mean, what she did was unbelievable. Nothing happens to her. Nothing happens to Bill Clinton. He took it out in his socks, you know? It was …

Mediaite reports: Former president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump once again pushed widely debunked 2020 election fraud claims in a post he shared on his Truth Social platform. “THE PEOPLE THAT DID THIS MUST BE PROSECUTED SO THEY DON’T DO IT IN 2024, WHEN THEY WILL BE PROSECUTED. SUCH A SHAME. I WON BIG, BUT WILL WIN AGAIN!” Trump …

The Associated Press reports: The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case on Wednesday dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump, but many other counts in the indictment remain. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote in an order that six of the counts in the indictment must be quashed, including three against Trump, the presumptive …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump has baselessly alleged that House Democrats used “Artificial Intelligence” to create a montage designed to show his lack of mental acuity, adding “‘Can’t do that Joe!!” on social media. The video in question was presented Tuesday by Rep. Jerry Nadler, who pushed back at Republicans during a hearing by rolling out a supercut of …

Axios reports: Former President Trump has won enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, AP projects. President Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president earlier on Tuesday, kicking off what is expected to be one of the longest presidential campaigns in modern history. Trump was projected to win primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington State on Tuesday. Republicans …

Courthouse News reports: The New York Attorney General’s Office told an appellate court on Monday that there would be substantial risks to staying the enforcement of former President Donald Trump’s hefty civil fraud judgment. As it stands, the judgment will become enforceable on March 25 — coincidentally, the same day that Trump’s criminal trial is set to start. Trump asked …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump renewed his calls for a debate between him and President Biden Tuesday, saying it would be for the good of the country. “For the good of our now failing Nation, and in order to inform the American people of what is going on in our Country, we must immediately have a full scale debate …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump said Monday that one of his first acts as president if he wins in November would be to “free” those charged and convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free …

The Meidas Touch reports: On Sunday, Trump posted a manipulated video showing himself replacing Joe Biden struggling at the State of the Union speech and Democrats cheering for him. Biden’s speech is interrupted with an announcement introducing “the President of the United States” as Trump walks in. The manipulated video then shows Jill Biden, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Pete Buttigieg, Nancy …

CNN reports: A longtime Mar-a-Lago employee who is a central witness in the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is now speaking publicly because he believes that voters should hear the truth about his former boss and the case before the November election. Brian Butler, who is referenced as “Trump Employee 5” in the classified documents …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump on Monday asked the New York judge overseeing his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star to delay the trial until the U.S. Supreme Court finishes reviewing his claim of presidential immunity in a separate case. The hush money trial is set to begin on March 25 in a New …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump laid out some of his financial priorities on Monday and defended his planned 10% across-the-board tariffs, saying any resulting price increase for families could be offset by tax cuts and calling for his 2017 tax cuts to be extended. The Republican U.S. presidential candidate, speaking in an interview on CNBC, also called for action on popular …

The Insider reports: Software engineer Ken Block told Business Insider ahead of the release of his forthcoming book “Disproven,” that he was paid about $750,000 to conduct research that would verify the existence of mass voter fraud in swing states, including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Despite the massive payday, Block couldn’t find any. He even disproved some …

The Kansas Reflector reports: Kansas Republicans have condemned a fundraiser Friday night where attendees paid to kick and beat an effigy of President Joe Biden, distancing themselves from extremists who have seized control of the party. The Biden-bashing antics were part of a Kansas GOP event in Johnson County, where rocker Ted Nugent and disgraced former Kansas Attorney General Phill …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump just had to post a $91.6 million bond while he appeals the verdict in the defamation case won by his rape accuser, E. Jean Carroll. But that whopping sum wasn’t enough to get him to stop trashing her. On the campaign trail Saturday, Trump once again denied sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s—even though …

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s new team at the Republican National Committee has tapped former RNC executive Sean Cairncross to help run the party’s operations and watch its spending in the run-up to the November election, two people familiar with the move tell Axios. Cairncross is a lawyer with a reputation of enforcing financial discipline — someone who can “watch …