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Mediaite reports: Ex-president Donald Trump played a video at his Michigan rally featuring media coverage of New York attorney general Letitia James designed to imply the press have no confidence in her lawsuit against him. Trump called the attorney general a “racist” as he has often lately, and said she is neglecting her job and not protecting the people of …

Yahoo News reports: Given “what we know about the ongoing investigations into Donald Trump,” a narrow majority of registered voters (51%) now believe he should not “be allowed to serve as president again in the future,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Just 35% of voters say Trump should be allowed to serve again. The rest (14%) are unsure. …

The Independent reports: According to an early copy of New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s new book obtained by CNN, the then-president was seconds away from firing off a tweet that would’ve alerted his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, that they were no longer employed in the White House. Both Ivanka and Kushner were working as senior …

CNN reports: The newest addition to former President Donald Trump’s legal team, Chris Kise, has been sidelined from the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation less than a month after he was brought on to represent Trump in the matter, two sources familiar with the move tell CNN. Kise is expected to remain on Trump’s legal team but is not leading the work …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump biffed it when he tried to say the word “great” but wound up delighting anti-Trump social media users by saying “We have to keep our country gay!” Trump held another rally in Wilmington, North Carolina Friday night, where QAnon salutes were once again observed. But near the beginning of his speech, Trump made what …

“This is a woman who — people may not know this — my husband started a charity to raise money for kids at Saint Jude Children’s Hospital when he was 22 years old. “He raised $30 million for the kids at Saint Jude, and Letitia James has such vitriol and hatred with the last name Trump she decided to investigate …

Law & Crime reports: A federal judge has dismissed the sprawling archlawsuit filed by Donald Trump against his perceived political enemies during the 2016 election, including Hillary Clinton, opponents, including the Democratic National Committee, James Comey, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, and Fusion GPS. U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks dismissed the case “in its entirety” after the myriad defendants asked …

ABC News reports: A federal grand jury investigating the activities leading up the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the push by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the result of the 2020 election has expanded its probe to include seeking information about Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, sources with direct knowledge tell ABC News. …

Mediaite reports: “Whenever you have documents seized that had were attorney-client privilege and absolutely you know these individuals have perused through them, have checked them out, that is a violation of Donald Trump’s constitutional rights,” she said. “How is that acceptable in any way?” “Something like this violates 250 years of jurisprudence,” said Trump. “The longer you go in America …

Politico reports: Records the FBI obtained from Trump’s Florida home in advance of the Aug. 8 search bore indications they contained human source intelligence, intercepts under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and signals intelligence, as well as other tags indicating high sensitivity. Several of those tightly-controlled documents contained Trump’s “handwritten notes,” the partially-redacted affidavit detailing the Justice Department investigation says. …

Mediaite reports: Jared Kushner’s own mother asked him if he was colluding with Russia, the former White House official revealed to Newsmax on Friday. “She’s reading articles online. Chuck Schumer and my parents, you know they used to be friends and we were Democrats and he’s going around the Upper East Side telling everybody that I’m going to be indicted. …

“For the last year, the one thing I’ve tried to put a priority on since leaving the White House is to getting some exercise in. “My generation is, hopefully with the advances in science, the first generation that’s going to live forever or the last generation that’s going to die. “So we need to keep ourselves in pretty good shape.” …

The New York Post reports: Ivana’s treasure, her family’s trash. Giant bags of trash were hauled out of the late Ivana Trump’s Upper East Side townhouse Wednesday, including hundreds of copies of Vogue magazine that featured her as the cover girl. The Post spotted the discarded mementos among the bags of junk tossed into a garbage truck operated by Royal …

NBC News reports: The chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s company, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded guilty to tax violations Thursday in a deal that would require him to testify about illicit business practices at the Trump Organization. The plea deal requires that Weisselberg “testify truthfully” about the company’s role in the alleged compensation arrangement when the Trump Organization goes on trial …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump and close aides have spent the eight days since the FBI searched his Florida home rushing to assemble a team of respected defense lawyers. But the answer they keep hearing is “no.” The struggle to find expert legal advice puts Trump in a bind as he faces potential criminal exposure from a …

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump declined to answer questions from the New York state attorney general’s office on Wednesday, a stunning gamble in a high-stakes legal interview that is likely to determine the course of a civil investigation into his company’s business practices. In a statement released shortly after the questioning began on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said …

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump will face questioning under oath from the New York attorney general’s office on Wednesday, a crucial turning point in a long-running civil investigation into his business practices. The stakes for Mr. Trump are uncommonly high. While he has sat for numerous depositions over the years, he fought for months to avoid the …

CNN reports: Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. sat for depositions as part of the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances after months of fighting in court, people familiar with the matter told CNN. Ivanka Trump’s behind-closed-doors deposition took place Wednesday and Trump Jr. had his deposition last Thursday, the people said. Trump Jr., who …

ABC News reports: Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, died from injuries sustained as the result of a fall, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Friday. Manhattan paramedics, responding to a call for cardiac arrest, found Ivana Trump just after 12:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the FDNY. She was pronounced dead at …

ABC News reports: Depositions for former President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. in connection with the New York Attorney General’s civil investigation have been delayed, the New York Attorney General’s Office said Friday. “In light of the passing of Ivana Trump yesterday, we received a request from counsel for Donald Trump and his children to adjourn all …