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Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Donald Trump and his allies have ramped up their war against newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith, reviving a playbook they hope will defang the latest unprecedented legal threat bearing down on the former president. Why it matters: This isn't 2017. The political and legal conditions that…

Former Vice President Mike Pence has been contacted by the Justice Department, according to sources familiar with the matter, to provide testimony in its ongoing criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and former President Donald Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. File pool…

NEW YORK -- Donald Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010, his longtime accountant testified Tuesday, confirming long-held suspicions about the former president’s tax practices. Donald Bender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who…

Thanksgiving 2022 was never going to be a happy time at Mar-a-Lago, what with the shellacking of Donald Trump’s preferred candidates in the midterms, the not-so-gushing response from Republicans to the ex-president’s 2024 announcement, and the public abandonment of the former guy by both his favorite offspring and billionaire Aussie.…

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer presented his stew of rapidly changing, sometimes conflicting, always ephemeral legal arguments in the case stemming from the August raid of Mar-a-Lago to a panel of appellate judges on Tuesday — who often reacted with incredulity.  “Think of the extraordinary nature from our perspective: An…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the House Ways and Means Committee to get six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from the IRS, essentially ending a court battle that started in 2019. The justices, in an unsigned order with no explanation and no noted…

Just two weeks after the midterm elections, the last thing that many Americans want to think about, I would guess, is the 2024 Presidential election. (Full disclosure: I’m in that category.) But there’s no relief. After Donald Trump’s announcement of his candidacy last week, multiple other G.O.P. hopefuls flew to…

Nate Silver breaks down former President Donald Trump’s odds of securing the 2024 GOP presidential candidacy on “This Week.” Nate Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight. @natesilver538 Read More

Former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was restored on Saturday, after the social media platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, polled users about the idea. Musk posted a poll on Twitter asking whether he should reinstate the former president’s account. The poll elicited over 15 million votes. Reinstate former President Trump…