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Watch CBS News By Melissa Quinn, Katrina Kaufman, Robert Legare Updated on: January 9, 2024 / 3:24 PM EST / CBS News Washington — A federal appeals court questioned the limits of a broad claim of presidential immunity put forward by former President Donald Trump, peppering his attorney with extreme hypothetical scenarios during contentious oral…
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Former President Trump said in an interview that aired Monday that he predicts the U.S. economy will crash and that he hopes it does so within the next year.In the interview with Lou Dobbs, Trump, the current front-runner in the GOP presidential primary race, explained that, if he were elected again, he would not want…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico’s top prosecutor said Friday that the state’s five Republican electors cannot be prosecuted under the current law for filing election certificates that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential race.However, Democratic Attorney General Raúl Torrez is…
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Massachusetts is among a handful of states contesting former President Donald Trump’s ability to appear on the 2024 ballot after he encouraged his supporters’ failed insurrection bid on January 6th, 2021. Trump has been removed from the Colorado and Maine primary ballots already and following appeals by the Trump campaign, the Supreme Court says it…
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Live updates: Trump to attend arguments today over immunity in election interference case  NBC Newssource

Republicans are again giving the former president a pass as he steamrolls his way to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

He lies just like him, he abandons his duty just like him.Joe Biden is a lie and a liar.That opening sentence is meant to sting. More importantly, it is meant to shatter the happy caricature that the sitting US president is an antidote – in character, nature and temperament – to his predecessor, Donald Trump.Biden…
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President Biden is trailing former President Trump by 8 percentage points in the battleground state of Michigan, according to a new poll. The latest Michigan poll found that while neither of the frontrunner candidates secured a majority support, voters were more likely to support Trump than Biden, The Detroit News reported. The poll, which was commissioned by…
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Judges expressed scepticism on Tuesday, as lawyers for Donald Trump presented a landmark case that ex-presidents should get immunity from criminal prosecution.Mr Trump's lawyers claimed his time in office protects him from charges connected to his alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election.The justice department argued the presidency was not "above the law".Mr Trump, the…
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This live blog is now closed. For the latest on Trump, you can read:In remarks to reporters in Washington DC after appeals court judges expressed skepticism at his claims of immunity , Donald Trump doubled down on his argument he should not face charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election.“What a sad situation it…
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Chosen by us to get you up to speed at a glanceDonald Trump has warned there will be “bedlam” if the justice department is allowed to prosecute him on election interference claims, accusing Joe Biden of attempting to push him off the ballot.It comes as the former president’s legal team argued he was exempt from…
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A federal judge in Nevada dismissed a ballot eligibility challenge against former President Trump on Tuesday, ruling the challenger does not have proper standing. Federal Judge Gloria Navarro determined that the man who brought the challenge, long-shot GOP presidential candidate John Anthony Castro, didn’t have authentic standing to bring the suit, because he filed to…
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WASHINGTON — Though Donald Trump is leading in New Hampshire two weeks out from the state’s Jan. 23 primary, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is gaining momentum in the Granite State, according to a new poll.A CNN and University of New Hampshire poll conducted between Jan. 4 and Jan. 8 found that 39% of…
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SEARCH“I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” Trump told Lou Dobbs in an interview on Lindell TV.Donald Trump admitted Monday that he wants a severe economic downturn to happen during the next year, because it will help his odds of winning the presidential election.The former president sat for an interview on Lindell TV with Lou…
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Help keep Salon independentTrump attorney Alina Habba on Thursday suggested that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would “step up” and rule in favor of the former president because he “fought for” him.Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado Supreme Court ruling barring him from the presidential primary ballot under the…
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The leading Republican presidential contender predicted “bedlam in the country,” and declined to condemn political violence.

What to watch for in Trump’s federal immunity appeals hearing in Washington, DC  CNNsource

SEARCHWhile journalists hem and haw over how best to cover Trump’s threats to democracy, there’s another question that needs asking: Is anyone even paying attention?Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.Exhaustion with the near-constant flood of headlines about Donald Trump is leading many to simply tune…
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Subscribe Now! Get features likeWhile supporters of Donald Trump celebrated that the MAGA leader was hardly mentioned in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents, a new report released by the Business Insider claimed that the former US President checks all the boxes for “Doe 174”.The court documents had identified Doe 174 as a person whose…
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The Eurasia Group placed “the United States vs. itself” atop its list of top risks for 2024.

Trump lawyers spar with judges over presidential immunity claim  BBCsource

Republican presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are set to go head-to-head Wednesday in the next Republican presidential primary debate, just days before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.   Former President Trump, the party frontrunner, is skipping the events, leaving just two candidates to square up in Des Moines at the event hosted by CNN. …
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Jump to Former President Donald Trump hopes the US economy will crash within the 12 months so he doesn’t get the blame for a downturn if he wins a second term.In a televised interview on Monday, he also said the economy is fragile and “running off of the fumes” of his accomplishments in his first…
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House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) warned U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland that if he doesn’t hold Hunter Biden, the president’s son, to the same level as Republicans who were held in contempt of Congress, he could face impeachment. “With respect to Merrick Garland, look, we know how he’s treated two Republicans…
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