2020 Election

Attorneys for Donald Trump have asked attorney general Merrick Garland to stop special counsel Jack Smith from completing his report detailing his investigations of the president-elect. Should Garland decline to do that, they propose that the decision to release the report be made by whoever becomes attorney general when Trump takes office.

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday falsely claimed that a Georgia appeals court’s decision to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from his 2020 election interference case in the state signals that the lawsuit is “entirely dead.”

Joe Rogan was inspired to have Donald Trump on his podcast when the former president was shot during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, claiming the “timing was perfect” after years of turning the conversation down.

Rogan’s admission came during Friday’s highly anticipated interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which saw Trump call the presidency a “very dangerous business” as the two discussed a wide range of topics.

In a highly anticipated interview, Donald Trump touched on a wide range of cultural and political issues Friday night in an three-hour conversation with Joe Rogan, who hosts one of the biggest podcasts in the world. 

The recording went on so long that Trump arrived several hours late to his rally that night in Traverse City, Mich. Frustrated at having to wait so long, many people left.

Former President Donald J. Trump taped a nearly three-hour episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Friday. He courted the show’s young male audience by floating the idea of eliminating the income tax, talking about mixed martial arts fighters, praising the military skills of Gen. Robert E. Lee and speculating that there was “no reason not to think” there could be life on Mars and other planets.

With 34 days to go before Election Day, and with early voting already under way in states that will decide the presidential contest, Judge Tanya Chutkan has granted Biden-Harris Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s motion to publicly broadcast the evidence he would offer at trial in the 2020 election-interference case against the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump.

The ruling is no surprise — indeed, Rich and I anticipated it on the podcast last week.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is about to wade into uncharted legal waters, deciding which of Donald Trump’s alleged election subversion crimes are official acts of an American president and hence at least presumptively immune from prosecution. The Supreme Court directed Chutkan to undertake this unprecedented litigation by creating out of whole cloth a doctrine of criminal immunity for a president’s “official acts.” On Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers made a last-ditch attempt to prevent this maiden legal voyage from setting sail.

The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case approved a request by special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday allowing him to file an “oversized” brief responding to the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling.

Smith sought permission for District Judge Tanya Chutkan to file a “comprehensive” opening brief explaining how the government intends to prosecute Trump in light of the Supreme Court’s July 1 ruling which granted the 45th president absolute immunity for certain presidential acts.