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U.S. Judge Tanya S. Chutkan reportedly compared the January 6 Capitol riot to the 9/11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday when she questioned the need for a long delay before Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C.

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Donald Trump was disqualified from holding office because a majority of senators voted to convict the former president on an impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Legal scholars on both the left and the right are launching an attempt to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential election on the basis of the claim that he engaged in “insurrection,” as cited by the Fourteenth Amendment.

GOP presidential candidate former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump is in “serious jeopardy” of being found not to be qualified to be president.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a resolution on Friday to censure Judge Tanya Chutkan for open bias and partisanship in her handling of cases of Americans linked to the January 6 protests.

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney requested an April 2026 trial date in Trump’s criminal trial over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. 

U.S. District Judge Tanka Chutkan, who is assigned to the January 6 case against former President Donald Trump, is related to some of the “most influential” Jamaican Marxists. 

Former President Donald Trump on Monday shared a quote from U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is overseeing his 2020 election case, demonstrating her apparent bias against him as she lamented that the former president “remains free to this day.”

Former President Donald Trump wasted no time Thursday responding to special counsel Jack Smith’s proposal for him to stand trial on Jan. 2, 2024, on charges related to the January 6 riot in Washington, DC.

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe said Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that former President Donald Trump’s “own rhetoric targeting” people “has an encouraging impact on people who are prone to violence.”

Most Republicans and independents do not approve of the latest indictment of former President Donald Trump for charges related to January 6, a recent Rasmussen Reports survey found.

MSNBC national affairs analyst John Heilemann said on Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” broadcast that former President Donald Trump would be using the “insanity” defense if his legal team claimed he believed the 2020 election was stolen.

The January 6 Committee defied a demand last year by incoming Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) that it preserve all of its records, evidence, and transcripts, and has destroyed much of what it collected over more than a year of investigation.

The New York Times reported Tuesday on a “secret memo” that proposed way in which the Trump campaign might use “alternate electors” in the event that challenges to the 2020 presidential election results were pending when Congress met on January 6.

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Weissmann said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” that he believed former President Donald Trump’s unnamed co-conspirators outlined in the January 6 indictment are “highly likely” to be indicted in a separate case.

Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was likely cooperating with the Department of Justice, and his testimony will be devastating for former President Donald Trump’s case.

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Monday on her show “The ReidOut” that the U.S. criminal justice system was “defiantly bifurcated” in favor of former President Donald Trump.

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team argued Special Counsel Jack Smith’s proposed protective order should be narrowed because it would violate Trump’s First Amendment right to free speech in a 29-page filing on Monday.

Most Americans, including three in ten Democrats, think that the trio of indictments against former President Donald Trump are “an attempt to stop” his 2024 presidential campaign, according to a CBS/YouGov poll. 

Donald Trump dubbed his former running mate “Liddle’ Mike Pence” as his vice president has been critical of him since last week’s indictment.

Former Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, a noted anti-Trump Republican, came down hard on the latest indictment against Trump.

John Lauro, an attorney for Donald Trump, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that a “technical violation of the Constitution” is not a violation “criminal law.”

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press” that the argument that former President Donald Trump did not break laws and was only expressing his First Amendment rights in the days after the 2020 election is a “deranged argument.”

Former President Donald Trump has turned on Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and declared she is a “wicked witch” who is destined one day to “live in hell.”

Former President Donald Trump will speak at the South Carolina GOP dinner on Saturday, August 5.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Friday on FNC’s “The Story” that former President Donald Trump’s behavior after the election was “reprehensible.”

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says that under his own “fraud” standard, Special Counsel Jack Smith could be indicted for omitting a key portion of then-President Donald Trump’s speech in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” said former President Donald Trump looked like a “scared puppy” arriving in Washington, D.C. to be arraigned in the January 6 case.

It is not a coincidence that former President Donald Trump drew a biased judge to oversee his 2020 election case relating to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, Kash Patel exclusively told Breitbart News.

Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe told CNN on Thursday that former President Donald Trump could “wipe out” all criminal charges against him, including both state and federal cases if he gets elected to the White House in 2024.

Former Vice President Mike Pence chief of staff Marc Short said Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that he believes since former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was not named as a co-conspirator in the special counsel’s indictment, it was likely Meadows is cooperating with the Justice Department’s investigation into events surrounding January 6, 2021.

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, told reporters outside the E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse where Trump was arraigned on Thursday that it was “not a coincidence” that charges have been filed against the 45th president following negative news coming out about Joe Biden and his family. “This is election interference at its finest,” Habba said.

Former President Donald J. Trump slammed President Joe Biden and accused him of “persecution of a political opponent” after he was arraigned in the second case Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) brought against him. 

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday spelled out his plan for revenge over the targeted harassment toward him at the hands of President Biden’s Justice Department, warning “In 2024, it will be our turn!”

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on charges alleging he attempted to overturn the 2020 election results Thursday in Washington, DC. 

CNN political commentator Van Jones said Thursday during the network’s special coverage of the indictment of Donald Trump that the former president was “masterful at getting half the country now to go along with this delusion that he has that somehow he’s the victim.”