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“I think, unfortunately, for a media company that I used to work for, you would expect better. But this is just really pathetic messaging. They’re just stepping out on themselves here. It’s backfiring spectacularly. It’s taking distraction away from the focus on the debate. And I’d just like to see somebody try to stop Don Jr. and me from going …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump is expected to surrender at the Fulton county jail on Thursday evening on racketeering and conspiracy charges over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The former president – seeking to distract from the indignity of the surrender …

Mediaite reports: A MAGA Super PAC is trolling the eight GOP presidential contenders who qualified to debate on Wednesday by asking voters to choose their “favorite VP” to run alongside Donald Trump. “Make America Great Again Inc.” created a web site, vpdebate2024.com. Voters were also encouraged to “click the expand icon” to view info on the candidates. Doing so reveals …

ABC News reports: A Fulton County judge has set former President Donald Trump’s bond at $200,000.. Trump and the other 18 defendants in the case have been given until Friday at noon to appear at the Fulton County Jail. All the defendants’ bond agreements include a provision that they “shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him …

CNN reports: Donald Trump and several co-defendants in the sweeping Georgia racketeering case are expected to work out the terms of their bond Monday with the Fulton County district attorney’s office, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Donald Trump’s legal team has arrived at the Fulton County courthouse where they are expected to meet with the district attorney’s …

Axios reports: “Well first off, the handling of classified materials is enormously serious in the life of the nation, but in my case, I was never made aware of any broad-based effort to declassify documents,” Mike Pence told ABC News’ Jon Karl during an interview on “This Week”. “There is a process that the White House goes through to declassify …

Mediaite reports: In what is nothing short of a stunning representation of the former president’s bond with his backers, a CBS News poll out Sunday found that MAGA fans are more likely to believe something Trump tells them than they are something their own family tells them. Among those who voted for the former president in 2020, 71 percent believe …

ABC News reports: Appearing to contradict former President Donald Trump’s primary public defense in the classified documents case, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has told special counsel Jack Smith’s investigators that he could not recall Trump ever ordering, or even discussing, declassifying broad sets of classified materials before leaving the White House, nor was he aware of …

Via press release from the Trump campaign: President Donald J. Trump will grant the right to use his “Seal of Approval” to an exclusive group of candidates and committees that the President endorses or otherwise supports. The purpose of the Seal is to help President Trump’s donors distinguish between authorized uses of his name and likeness, and unauthorized uses including …

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: I easily won the Great State of Georgia in 2016, did a fantastic job, as President, for Georgia and the entire USA, received 10 Million more votes than I got, nationwide, in 2016, got by far the most votes in history for a sitting President, but shockingly, “LOST” Georgia. All this despite …

The Daily Mail reports: As the deadline for Donald Trump to surrender for booking in Georgia looms, online sportsbooks are going wild with proposition bets on everything from his tie color to his body weight at booking. One bookmaker site, Antigua-based BetOnline, on Friday offered an over/under of 273.5 pounds for Trump’s weight upon his surrender to authorities in Fulton …

NBC News reports: Law enforcement officials are anticipating that former President Donald Trump will surrender at a Fulton County, Ga. jail no earlier than Thursday, three senior law enforcement officials who are familiar with the plan said. These officials, who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the plan, said they expect the surrender to …

Reuters reports: A U.S. judge on Friday declared that Donald Trump had filed a “frivolous” appeal of his decision not to dismiss the first of writer E. Jean Carroll’s two defamation lawsuits stemming from her claims that he raped her. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan also denied Trump’s bid to delay the case while he appeals. “Mr. Trump …

CNN reports: The current thinking among Donald Trump’s campaign advisers and those close to the former president is that he is not planning on participating in next week’s Republican presidential primary debate, three sources familiar with his plans tell CNN, and has been proposing counterprogramming to the event. The sources say that Trump has not done any prep for the …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment by a publicity & campaign finance seeking …

Reuters reports: Lawyers for Donald Trump on Thursday asked a federal judge in Washington to schedule an April 2026 trial for the former president, on federal charges that he allegedly sought to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. That requested date would place the trial after the November 2024 U.S. election, in which Trump is the front-runner …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Georgia’s most powerful Republican politicians rejected pro-Donald Trump calls to change the state constitution to give the governor direct authority to pardon those convicted of crimes. Far-right Trump supporters have pressed Kemp and other GOP leaders to pursue an overhaul of pardon rules after the former president was charged this week with orchestrating a far-ranging “criminal …

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s promised press conference to refute the allegations in the indictment handed up by the Fulton County DA’s Office is now very much in doubt, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Sources tell ABC News that Trump’s legal advisors have told him that holding such a press conference with dubious claims …

Atlanta’s CBS affiliate reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked a judge to set a trial date of March 4, 2024, for former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants. Willis also asked to schedule arraignments for the defendants for the week of September 5, according to a court filing, and says the proposed dates “do not conflict” …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants will be booked at the Fulton County Jail, the sheriff’s office said Tuesday. “At this point, based on guidance received from the District Attorney’s office and presiding judge, it is expected that all 19 defendants named in the indictment will be booked at the Rice Street Jail,” Fulton …