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Trump's conduct, specifically targeting the judge's staff, "certainly goes beyond free speech," legal expert says

Smith calls out Trump team's "distortions of the factual and legal landscape in their motions"

After the civil war, Klansmen were prosecuted – and Confederate traitors forced from office – by the same laws Trump has now run afoul of

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Special counsel Jack Smith and another judge have also been victims of swatting as they oversee other cases against Trump

Former president appeared at a federal appeals court in election subversion case

When one judge asked a Trump’s attorney if a president who ordered the assassination of a political rival could be charged, the attorney appeared to equivocate, saying the president would first have to have been impeached and convicted by the Senate in order to be prosecuted.

“I think it’s paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal law,” said Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, an appointee of former President George H.W. Bush.

As one appeals court judge pointed out, Trump's defense could literally let a president get away with murder.