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Trump threatens to 'blackmail' Biden if he doesn't make charges go away

Travis Gettys February 7, 2024 1:35PM ET Former President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to prosecute President Joe Biden if he wins another term in the White House. An appeals court rejected Trump's claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case in the District of Columbia, although he intends to press the same argument in Florida, where he also faces federal charges for mishandling classified documents, and the ex-president issued what appeared to be a "blackmail&quot ...

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Judge denies Trump's motion for mistrial in E. Jean Carroll defamation case

A federal judge denied Donald Trump’s motions for a mistrial in the defamation case brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll saying the former president’s arguments had no “merit” and are “entirely pointless.” Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Trump’s motions from the bench during the civil trial and said a written order would follow. In the written order on Wednesday, the judge said granting a request for a mistrial “would have been entirely pointless” because it would only mean that the case would start ...

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Trump plans to press immunity defense in classified documents case despite defeat in appeals court

Published 12:13 PM EST, Wed February 7, 2024 Washington CNN — Donald Trump’s legal team is outlining how he intends to fight the classified documents case against him in Florida, including by claiming presidential immunity, despite a significant defeat on that issue in the election subversion case in Washington, DC. In a filing Tuesday, Trump’s attorneys asked Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the Florida case, for more time to follow certain pretrial motions they’re considering, i ...

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Trump's lawyers look to get charges tossed in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case

WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for former President Donald Trump said in a filing Tuesday night that they plan to file multiple motions to get the criminal charges in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against the former president dismissed. "Defendants currently plan to file on February 22, at minimum, a series of motions to dismiss the Superseding Indictment and certain of the charges therein," Todd Blanche and Christopher Kise wrote in the newly filed motion, which seeks to extend cer ...

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2 House Republicans push back against claims that a president can easily fix the border: Why didn't Trump

Feb 7, 2024, 10:46 AM EST As House Republicans failed Tuesday evening in a vote to impeach Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, two staunch conservative representatives from Texas pushed back against former President Donald Trump's claims that reforming the US-Mexico border is easy. Following the unsuccessful 214-216 impeachment vote, Rep. Chip Roy railed against the GOP and Trump for likely putting an end to the Senate's recently introduced bipartisan immigration bill, which Trump has perso ...

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Open GOP Rebellion Against McConnell

(Political Wire) “Conservative hardliners once celebrated Mitch McConnell for wrestling the federal judiciary to the right and thwarting progressive hopes,” Politico reports. “Now he is under open attack from the right for even trying to work with Democrats on the border. The Senate GOP leader is facing internal resistance not seen in more than a year as Republicans descend into discord over two issues they once demanded be linked: border security and the war in Ukraine.”

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Schumer Says Senate Will Move Forward With Border Bill Vote Wednesday

(Meidas Touch) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says the U.S. Senate will hold a vote on the bipartisan border deal on Wednesday, despite Republican opposition. In a closed door meeting Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told his fellow Republican senators to vote 'no' on the bill, noting that while there is nothing wrong with the legislation, the political winds have changed. Translation: Donald Trump is actively pressuring Republicans to vote against the bill so that he can continue to run on the immigration issue during his campaign.

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It's Only Getting Worse for House Republicans

(Political Wire) “We’ve seen fits and starts, crashes and burns and our fair share of missteps by House GOP leaders through the years,” Punchbowl News reports. “But what we’re now witnessing with Speaker Mike Johnson’s House defies definition. Tuesday’s debacle — failing to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and then choosing to lose a vote on $17 billion in aid to Israel — is truly one of the most embarrassing days in recent House GOP history.”

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A New Florida Immigration Law Is Turning Farm Towns Into 'Ghost Towns'

(Civil Eats) Moncho had just started building a life in Florida when SB 1718’, a broad law targeting both undocumented immigrants and the people in their lives, passed through the state legislature last May. In the weeks that followed, his home stopped feeling like home. He began seeing more cops and state troopers in his town, a predominantly immigrant community. He feared it would only get worse and figured it was safest to leave before the law went into effect in July.

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RNC Chair McDaniel has offered to step down following South Carolina primary

(CNN) Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has offered to leave her position following the South Carolina primary later this month to allow former President Donald Trump to install his own party chair, two party advisers told CNN. McDaniel’s offer to resign comes as tensions between Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, and the RNC have heightened in recent days and as the former president’s team has begun quietly floating names to replace her.

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Marianne Williamson suspends her presidential campaign, ending long-shot primary challenge to Biden

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Trump's lawyers look to get charges tossed in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case

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Judge denies Trump's motion for mistrial in E. Jean Carroll defamation case

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2 House Republicans push back against claims that a president can easily fix the border: Why didn't Trump

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