High-profile legal powerhouse and former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb says the bombshell recordings of Donald Trump allegedly pressuring two Michigan election officials to refuse to certify the 2020 results for Joe Biden could put both the ex-president and Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel at risk.

Cobb earlier this week predicted Trump would win unanimously at the U.S. Supreme Court when he appeals the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that found he is ineligible to be on the state’s ballot because he violated the 14th Amendment by engaging in insurrection.

“I think this case will be handled quickly. I think it could be 9-0 in the Supreme Court for Trump,” Cobb told CNN, as The Hill reported Tuesday. “I think the law is clear.”

But Cobb, who led the Trump White House’s defense in the Mueller investigation, was decidedly not in Trump’s camp on Friday.

The Detroit News Thursday night reported it had listened to four recordings of a telephone call made on November 17, 2020 – exactly two weeks after the election – during which the outgoing president pressured two Michigan “canvassers” to not certify the election in Wayne County, which includes Detroit. Joe Biden won 68% of the vote there.

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Politico reports the Trump campaign “recently highlighted” Cobb’s views on the 14th Amendment case, but the former White House attorney “told Playbook he saw the recordings as ‘likely a violation’ of the federal honest services fraud statute.”

“Also, shows the depths to which Trump personally participated in fraudulently pimping the big lie,” Cobb also told Politico, referring to Trump’s web of lies about election fraud. He added that RNC chair Ronna McDaniel “is equally exposed. Clearly, evidence going to the core conspiracies charged by the special prosecutor.”

Cobb isn’t there only one pointing the finger at Trump and McDaniel.

“To some legal analysts, the tape — in which Trump tells the canvassers to ‘fight for our country’ and McDaniel promises legal assistance — instead tells a story of bribery,” Politico reports. NCRM has also reported one legal expert says it “sounds like a classic case of bribery under Michigan State law.”

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Others are also calling out the RNC chair.

Veteran political consultant Karl Rove, dubbed “Bush’s brain” for catapulting George W. Bush into the White House, says both Trump and RNC chair Ronna McDaniel could be in trouble for the recorded remarks they made two weeks after the 2020 election.

“If this tape is true the former president’s created another problem for himself,” Rove told Fox News on Friday. On McDaniel, he added, “I think the chairman is in trouble here because she’s saying to them, if you agree to change your decision on certification in Wayne County, we’ll get you lawyers to stand by you. Again, I think that was highly inappropriate.”

Roberts: Is it a problem for Ronna McDaniel as well?

Rove: I think it is. I think the Chairman is in trouble here. pic.twitter.com/o7npp8hfrX

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The super-conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court is refusing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request to rule on ex-president and criminal defendant Donald Trump’s claim he has “absolute immunity” and cannot be prosecuted for any crimes he may have committed during his time as President.

Smith had requested the nation’s highest court take up this question: “Whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from federal prosecution when he has been impeached but not convicted before the criminal proceedings begin.”

Trump is claiming both absolute immunity and ineligible for prosecution because the U.S. Senate found him not guilty after the House impeached him.

The justices’ response to Smith’s request was a short as possible: “Petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment DENIED.”

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At times the court will say which justices voted a certain way, or if one justice accepted or denied the request without sending to the full court.

“The court’s decision is a major blow to Smith, who made an extraordinary gamble when he asked the justices to take the rare step of skipping a federal appeals court and quickly deciding a fundamental issue in his election subversion criminal case against Trump,” CNN reported Friday afternoon.

“The public interest in a prompt resolution of this case favors an immediate, definitive decision by this Court,” Smith had said in his request, asking the justices to allow him to skip over, or “leapfrog” the appellate court. “The charges here are of the utmost gravity,” he added, in his filing, CNN had reported earlier.

Smith was counting on the nation’s highest court to rule quickly, pointing to its decision a half-century ago in another caae against another president, Richard Nixon.

“Here, the stakes are at least as high, if not higher: the resolution of the question presented is pivotal to whether the former President himself will stand trial – which is scheduled to begin less than three months in the future,” he wrote.

As she closes the gap in the polls between herself and Donald Trump, former Gov. Nikki Haley’s bid to become the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nominee is facing more scrutiny — including on a recent 11-month period where she made an estimated $2.5 million.

According to a report from the Washington Post, Haley stepped down as Trump’s U.N. ambassador in late 2018, not long after a process server attempted to serve her with papers at the United Nations building over the foreclosure of her parents’ lake house on which she was listed as a defendant.

What followed, the Post reported, was the former lawmaker trading on her high-profile to cash in through paid-for speeches, though details of what said are vague and there are questions about all of her sources of income.

That is because she has yet to release her income taxes — something she has demanded of others.

The report from the Post’s Issac Stanley-Becker noted, “In an 11-month period, ending January 2023, she earned about $2.5 million from paid speeches alone, delivered to banks, other businesses and advocacy groups, according to her disclosure. That’s more than she earned in combined salary during the eight years she spent as governor and then a presidential Cabinet member.”

The report stated that the Haley campaign has danced around questions about her paid appearances, with Stanley-Becker writing that a “Haley spokesperson said the campaign does not have transcripts of Haley’s paid speeches because most took the form of question-and-answer sessions. Haley also has not released her recent tax returns. The spokesperson said she intends to but did not respond to questions about when.”

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That contrasts notably with Haley in 2016 demanding, “Donald Trump, show us your tax returns!” while also dragging his 2016 presidential opponent Hillary Clinton into the attack by complaining, “We have two presidential candidates that refuse to disclose information: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.”

The Post’s Stanley-Becker adds, “Haley’s reversal of fortune sheds light on inconsistencies between her public posturing and personal finances. She has touted her background in accounting yet faced penalties for failing to pay taxes on time, according to state records and news reports. She has demanded transparency from political adversaries yet veiled some aspects of her own sudden wealth whilenot always maintaining bright lines between her public role and private life.”

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