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The Hill reports: Attorneys for former President Trump are seeking a judge’s permission to subpoena the former chair of the House Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, repeating a disputed claim that the panel failed to turn over all the evidence it collected. The filing from Trump — which also seeks to subpoena six other …

The Messenger reports: Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday cited security concerns and Donald Trump’s recent social media activity as reasons to get prospective Washington, D.C., jurors to fill out a written questionnaire ahead of the jury selection process for the former president’s upcoming March 2024 trial. The 11-page motion filed Tuesday from Smith’s office centers around their 2020 election …

Forbes responds to Trump’s latest tirade: Removed from The Forbes 400, Trump responds as he always has—by lying about his net worth and saying he should be higher on the list. We take extraordinary care in valuing his fortune, and our ownership—which does not include China’s wealth fund—plays no role in that effort. Twice a year, we publish a detailed …

The Messenger reports: There is “no reason” to grant former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case until after the 2024 election, Special Counsel Jack Smith argued in a court filing Monday. “The defendants provide no credible justification to postpone a trial that is still seven months away,” prosecutors in Smith’s office wrote in …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: China owned (China Investment Corp, the Country’s Sovereign wealth Fund!), and very badly failing, Forbes “Magazine,” which lost most of its relevance long ago, and which knows less about me than Stormy Daniels (who doesn’t know me at all!) or Rosie O’Donnell, took me off their Fake Forbes 400 list, just by a “whisker,” …

Raw Story reports: Trump, who has been criticized for increasingly violent rhetoric as his legal cases have put more pressure on him, began discussing photos of Biden on the beach. “I have a much better body than him,” the former president said at the rally. He then added that he’s “not sure” he would want to “expose it with the …

Fox News reports: Former President Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that he would accept a short-term role as speaker of the House of Representatives to serve as a “unifier” for the Republican Party until lawmakers reach a decision on who should take on the post. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was removed as speaker of the House on Tuesday after …

ABC News reports: Months after leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with a member of his Mar-a-Lago Club — an Australian billionaire who then allegedly shared the information with scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and a handful of journalists, …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Wednesday asked a judge to dismiss the whole of the government’s election interference case against him, arguing all his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are protected by presidential immunity. “As the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and hundreds of years of history and tradition all make clear, the …

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump is discussing whether to head to Capitol Hill and speak to the fractious House GOP caucus in the coming days as Republicans consider a new speaker, sources briefed on the conversations tell The Messenger. The potential visit follows escalating calls by Republican members to have Trump travel to Washington and even serve as …

The Daily Beast reports: The judge who doomed Donald Trump’s family business last week took an aggressive and preemptive step on Wednesday to ensure the former president can’t secretly shift assets to salvage his real estate empire. In an order that was posted on the fourth day of the former president’s bank fraud trial, Justice Arthur F. Engoron commanded that …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: John Kelly, by far the dumbest of my Military people, just picked up the theme of the Radical Left’s lying about Gold Star Families and Soldiers, in his hatred of me. He was incapable of doing a good job, it was too much for him, and I couldn’t stand the guy, so I fired …

Mediate reports: Former President Donald Trump shared a number of social media posts pitching him to be speaker of the House on Wednesday following Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) ouster, including an article which called McCarthy a “TRAITOR.” In one Truth Social post, Trump shared an edited photo of himself holding the speaker’s gavel. Hours later, Trump shared two posts from …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump on Wednesday appealed a judge’s refusal to dismiss New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud lawsuit against him and his family business, two days after the case went to trial. The appeal to the Appellate Division, a mid-level appeals court, was filed as Trump sat in a Manhattan courtroom, watching an accountant who used to …

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump was chastised on Tuesday by the judge presiding over his civil fraud trial after the former president posted a message targeting the judge’s law clerk. Mr. Trump attacked the clerk, Allison Greenfield, shortly before noon on his Truth Social site. His post was a picture of Ms. Greenfield with Senator Chuck Schumer, …

Axios reports: Former President Trump said Tuesday that he will testify at “the appropriate time” in the New York civil fraud trial involving him and his business. “Yes, I will. At the appropriate time I will be” testifying, Trump told reporters during a break during the second day of the trial. Trump is attending the first two days of his …

Raw Story reports: Donald Trump put a target on a New York law clerk with a conspiracy theory suggesting Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is dating her and is rigging the fraud case against the former president. Trump claimed Tuesday, without citing any evidence, that Alison Greenfield, the principal law clerk to New York Supreme Court justice Arthur Engoron, was …

“He’s been given false information, misleading information, and corrupt information by a very corrupt and incompetent attorney general, Letitia James. This woman is grossly incompetent. She ran on the basis I will get in trouble without knowing anything about me. “So he’s been given this information, that’s now been proven to be false, such as Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, …

Just posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Now that it has been agreed in Court that Mar-a-Lago is WORTH 50 to 100 times the Value the Racist & Incompetent Attorney General of New York State, Letitia “Peekaboo” James, ascribed to it (18 Million Dollars), & likewise other assets that were valued crazily low by this “Monster” that has allowed Violent …

The Daily Mail reports: Former President Donald Trump shared a strange court sketch on social media that showed him at his Manhattan fraud case with a person who looked like Jesus Christ sitting next him. The former president and 2024 candidate, 77, scowled and shook his head as prosecutors accused him of ‘lying year after year’ to exaggerate the value …