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'Shoot Bragg in the head': 'Vile' threats laid out for Judge Cannon in Trump case

Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith has made a new argument to impose a gag order on former President Donald Trump in his classified documents case by displaying death threats from the former president’s most ardent supporters.

According to Law & Crime, Smith attempted to justify his demand for a gag order by showing some of the most egregious death threats Trump supporters made to judges and prosecutors. Smith is seeking to prevent the ex-president from lying about "FBI agents intending to murder him and his family" during the DOJ's 2022 search for classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022.

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Judge warned Trump will 'take a wrecking ball' to democracy if he's not imprisoned

Donald Trump has already given New York Justice Juan Merchan ample reason to sentence him to prison for falsifying business records, a columnist wrote Tuesday.

Each of the 34 counts he's been convicted of carries a maximum four-year sentence, although they would run concurrently. Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin argued that many convictions for Class E felonies do result in prison time — and she said Trump's "conduct and character" should be enough to put him behind bars in this case.

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Elise Stefanik's attack on Trump's civil fraud judge Arthur Engoron flopped: report

Rep. Elise Stefanik's attack on the New York civil court judge who held former President Donald Trump liable for over $450 million seems to have died with a whimper, according to a new report.

Justice Arthur F. Engoron and law clerk Allison Greenfield were both cleared by a state commission of allegations that they exhibited "inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance," according to a new report from the Daily Beast.

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‘Strategy and manipulation’: Artist draws truth from Trump’s face at hush money trial

NEW YORK CITY— Jessica Jarva scanned the growing line of anxious people waiting alongside the New York City courthouse where Donald Trump was on trial.

The sun had set and rain fell unabated. Jarvaland, as the artist calls herself, knew she, too, would be spending a rainy night in a dark alleyway — for the love of Michael Cohen’s right eyebrow.

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'What a sad way to dishonor our nation's fallen heroes': Trump blasted over holiday post

Former President Donald Trump's Memorial Day remarks were met with fierce backlash from a slew of journalists, as well as legal and political experts Monday.

The MAGA leader's message — which was posted to Truth Social — included attacks on Judges Lewis Kaplan, who presided over two defamation cases against Trump from veteran writer E. Jean Carroll, and Arthur Engoron, who presided over the ex-president's New York civil fraud case. He also mentioned Judge Juan Merchan, who's presiding over Trump's hush money trial, which is expected to conclude this week.

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'No shame': Elise Stefanik criticized for newest attack on Trump's hush money judge

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is stepping up her attacks on New York Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan, with a formal ethics complaint alleging a conflict of interest.

Stefanik, a close Trump ally and the chair of the House Republican Conference, has made public calls for Merchan to recuse himself from the case, in which Trump stands accused of falsifying business records to conceal hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

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'Can't imagine acquittal': Prosecutor says Trump is 'headed toward conviction' in New York

Donald Trump's legal team may have scored a few points on witness Michael Cohen, but the former president is still barreling toward a conviction in the New York hush money cover-up case, a Florida prosecutor said Sunday.

State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where he was asked about the case in which the ex-president stands accused of disguising business records to hide payments to an adult film star with whom he had a brief affair.

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Legal expert trashes Trump lawyer's first question for Michael Cohen

Donald Trump's Manhattan hush money trial began the afternoon session on Tuesday with cross-examination of Michael Cohen — and, right out of the gate, the defense lawyer wanted to ask about insults.

Todd Blanche, who has taken a back seat to Trump's other lawyer, Susan Necheles in recent days, began his questions by asking, "Mr. Cohen, my name is Todd Blanche and I have never met you. You went on TikTok and called me a crying little s--t."

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