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Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie slammed former President Trump on Monday for his “awful temperament” in response to his mounting legal challenges. Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed Monday to impose a “narrow” gag order prohibiting the former president from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and their families involved in his Jan. 6 election interference case. Asked about Trump calling the gag order “unconstitutional,” Christie told former White House press secretary Jen Psaki: “Look, this is the awful temperament of the guy who is currently the front-runner for the domination of my party.”

Former White House press secretary turned-cable news host Jen Psaki noted former President Trump’s “affection for dictators” during an interview that aired on her MSNBC show this weekend. During a conversation with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Psaki asked the Democratic leader about a federal indictment the former president is facing over his handling of classified documents in the context of his dealings with some foreign leaders. “As you just alluded to, I mean reading the itemized list of 31 documents and the clearance levels as a former ranking member on the Intel Committee, there were Five Eyes classifications...

Former President Donald Trump, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, promised to appoint a special prosecutor to go after the Biden family and others in a post on Truth Social on Monday. He posted: NOW THAT THE ‘SEAL’ IS BROKEN, IN ADDITION TO CLOSING THE BORDER & REMOVING ALL OF THE ‘CRIMINAL’ ELEMENTS THAT HAVE ILLEGALLY INVADED OUR COUNTRY, MAKING AMERICA ENERGY INDEPENDENT, & EVEN DOMINANT AGAIN, & IMMEDIATELY ENDING THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA & UKRAINE, I WILL APPOINT A REAL SPECIAL ‘PROSECUTOR’ TO GO AFTER THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA, JOE BIDEN, THE ENTIRE BIDEN...

With Trump reportedly set to leave the Paris Climate Deal, this has prompted one of Trump’s “advisors”, Elon Musk, to tweet moments ago that he has done “all he can” to advise “directly to POTUS, through others in WH & via councils” that the U.S. remain in the Paris climate deal. And, in response to a Twitter user asking him what he will do if Trump decides to leave the climate deal, Musk tweets “we will have no choice but to depart councils.”(snip)