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Rolling Stone reports: During an interview aired Sunday, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo gave former President Donald Trump a chance to explain away his remarks in a December town hall that he’d only be a dictator on “day one.” Trump brushed it off: “It was with Sean Hannity, and we were having fun, and I said ‘I’m going to be …

“BIDEN JUST CALLED ME A SICK F-WORD! Friend, but you know he doesn’t just think that about me, he thinks that about EVERY SINGLE ONE of my proud supporters. HE THINKS THAT ABOUT YOU! Hillary Clinton calls us deplorables. “Biden will spit on us & call us every curse word in the dictionary. BUT I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU …

The Meidas Touch reports: When Joe Biden became the first president to join a picket line this past September for the UAW, the Trump campaign scrambled to do something to counter the move. Michigan is a critical state for both campaigns, and when auto workers went on strike last fall, Biden made it clear that he was on the side …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference trial in Washington, D.C., will no longer begin on March 4, Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote in a court order released on Friday. It is unclear when the trial will now start. Chutkan’s ruling comes as the D.C. Circuit Court has not yet decided on whether the former president is immune …

The Washington Post reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) admitted she had a personal relationship with an outside prosecutor she appointed to manage the election interference case against former president Donald Trump and his allies but denied claims that the relationship had tainted the proceedings. In a 176-page court filing on Friday, Willis called the claims against …

The Daily Beast reports: As Donald Trump fights off four criminal indictments and a host of other costly civil cases, his political money machine is once again footing the bill for his lawyers. But in a new filing with the Federal Election Committee this week, one particular line item stuck out: payments to private investigators. But Trump wasn’t looking into …

CNBC reports: A verdict in the New York civil business fraud trial of former President Donald Trump — which had been anticipated Wednesday — is now expected to arrive in early to mid-February, a court spokesman said. That new timeline for the written decision by Judge Arthur Engoron is still a “rough estimate” and “subject to modifications,” said Alfred Baker, …

The Washington Post reports: U.S. officials are debating how thick of a security blanket they will wrap around the federal courthouse in downtown Washington for former president Donald Trump’s trial — a practical and symbolic measure of the case’s importance that must balance safety with the ongoing functions of a city and a public courthouse. Proposed changes for what could …

Rolling Stone reports: Trump has reacted to the possibility of Biden and Swift teaming up against him this year not with alarm, but with an instant projection of ego. In recent weeks, the former president has told people in his orbit that no amount of A-list celebrity endorsements will save Biden. Trump has also privately claimed that he is “more …

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump piled up legal expenses in 2023 as he was indicted four times, spending approximately $50 million in donor money on legal bills and investigation-related expenses last year, according to two people briefed on the figure. It is a staggering sum. His lone remaining rival in the 2024 Republican primary, Nikki Haley, raised …

Reuters reports: Hotelier Robert Bigelow told Reuters on Tuesday he gave Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump $1 million for his legal fees and agreed to donate another $20 million to a pro-Trump outside group for campaign purposes. “I gave him $1 million towards his legal fees a few weeks ago. I made a promise to give him $20 million more, …

NBC News reports: The Illinois State Board of Elections unanimously voted Tuesday to keep former President Donald Trump on the ballot ahead of the state’s March 19 primary election, rejecting a challenge that he should be disqualified because of Jan. 6. The board, which is made up of four Democrats and four Republicans, heard the case regarding a petition brought …

“People say, how do you do it, sir? How do you do it? I get two questions. If you had it to do again, would you do it? Because, you know, in history, they say the president that was treated the worst was Abraham Lincoln. But he had the Civil War, you know. “So he had a little Civil War …

Politico reports: The day after President Joe Biden ramped up his rhetoric on a border deal, former President Donald Trump again tried to undercut the chances of significant immigration reform this year. “A bad border deal is far worse than no border deal,” the former president and GOP presidential frontrunner wrote in all-caps on Truth Social. The bipartisan deal, which …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: President Biden would claim, with cause, that Republicans want border chaos as an election issue rather than solving the problem. Voter anger may over time move from Mr. Biden to the GOP, and the public will have a point. Cynical is the only word that fits Republicans panning a border deal whose details …

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: When I was President, we had the most secure Border in History. Joe Biden has surrendered our Border, and is aiding and abetting a massive Invasion of millions of Illegal Migrants into the United States. Instead of fighting to protect our Country from this onslaught, Biden is, unbelievably, fighting to tie the …

ABC News reports: Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was in federal court Thursday to be sentenced for defying a congressional subpoena to cooperate with the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Navarro was convicted in September on one count of contempt of Congress over his refusal to appear for a deposition …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump made a whopping 37 posts about sexual assault accuser E. Jean Carroll within the space of just 20 minutes on Wednesday evening ahead of his defamation trial in New York. In just 20 minutes, Trump published 37 posts about Carrol – an average of 1.85 posts per minute – attacking the former Elle magazine …

The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump on Wednesday privately pressured Senate Republicans to “kill” a bipartisan deal to secure the U.S. border because he doesn’t want President Joe Biden to chalk up a win ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to a source familiar with the tenuous negotiations on the package. Trump directly reached out to several GOP senators …

Bloomberg News reports: Two days after his decisive victory in the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump is set to take the witness stand in New York to rebut defamation claims by writer E. Jean Carroll — testing his ability to sway a federal jury and a judge he’s already clashed with. Trump’s plan to testify Thursday gives him a chance …