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Donald Trump Thinks Cable News Ratings Are Down Because Hes Not Being Talked About Enough  Forbes

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Donald Trump isnt too pleased that his tax returns from 2015 to 2020 were released to the public on Friday, but his response is an eye-opening revelation to his lack of understanding that all presidents (no matter which party they belong to) are not above the law. The former presidents business strategies are already being called into question, and the IRS may be looking into the loans he provided for Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr., so he made sure his voice was heard in a forceful statement.

The Democrats should have never done it, the supreme court should have never approved it, and its going to lead to horrible things for so many people, he wrote in the statement. The great USA divide will now grow far worse. The radical, left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street! Its almost as if hes trying to incite his followers similar to Jan. 6, 2021. There have been consequences for him and those who participated in that day, and its really something the country doesnt want to repeat.

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What hes failing to see is that he received some type of preferential treatment from the IRS because he did not receive the mandatory audit of his taxes in the first two years of office. Joe Bidens taxes were audited in 2020 and 2021 and all presidents moving forward should be handled in that same manner. Richard Neal, the Democratic chairman of the ways and means committee, shared in a statement last week, A president is no ordinary taxpayer. They hold power and influence, unlike any other American. And with great power comes even greater responsibility. He also chided the IRS for failing to expand the mandatory audit program to account for the complex nature of the former presidents financial situation.

Donald Trump will only see the actions of the committee as a witch hunt and he only has time for praising himself. The Trump tax returns once again show how proudly successful I have been and how I have been able to use depreciation and various other tax deductions as an incentive for creating thousands of jobs and magnificent structures and enterprises, he summed up in the statement. If he wants to be president again, Donald Trump will need to learn that his taxes are going to have to be an open book.

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In testimony to Jan. 6 committee, former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato said he didn't recall heated motorcade interaction with Trump  CBS News

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Former President Donald Trump wanted reporters to cover a private event he was hosting.

Advisers then had to explain why he could no longer call on a press pool for his events.

Advisers found reporters who happened to be working near the area for his event, the Washington Post reported.

Aides and advisers to former President Donald Trump said he had a difficult time transitioning from the White House to life as a private citizen, according to a new report from the Washington Post.

According to the Post, one example of this was when Trump wanted his team to call on a press pool reporters who travel with presidents for an event at Mar-a-Lago. Advisers had to break the news to Trump that this was no longer a possibility.

"We had to explain to him that he didn't have a group standing around waiting for him anymore," an unnamed former aide told the Washington Post.

The advisers ended up pulling reporters who were near Mar-a-Lago for other reasons, two sources told the Post.

Once Trump left office, he was frustrated at his downsized life, which included a smaller number of Secret Service, no access to Air Force One, and little press coverage compared to when he was president, four unnamed advisers to Trump told the Post.

Trump has spent most of his post-presidency in isolation at Mar-a-Lago, playing golf six days a week and using dinner at the club as an opportunity to revel in the attention of admiring fans who applaud his entrances and exits from the dining room.

The praise he receives from guests at his Palm Beach, Florida, and Bedminster, New Jersey, clubs is how he gets the attention he became used to as president, an aide told the Post.

"The appetite for attention hasn't waned, but that's where he gets it now," an unnamed Trump confidant told the Washington Post."The networks don't carry his rallies. He doesn't get interviews anymore. He can't stand under the wing of Air Force One and gaggle [with reporters] for an hour."

He has also spent less time being challenged by aides and listening to opposition from political opponents, colleagues, and independent journalists, the Post reported.

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Trump is now seeking a second term in theWhite House. On November 24, he announced his bid for president in 2024. Meanwhile, he continues to face mounting legal and political challenges.

The January 6 committee investigating Trump's role during the 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol is expected to recommend at least three criminal charges insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the US government against the former president to the Department of Justice.

Although the recommendations hold nolegal weight, the committee hopes the action will influence Attorney General Merrick Garland to take action against the former president, Politico reported.

Trump is also still facing an investigation from the Department of Justice after the FBI, executing a search warrant, found classified documents that the former president took with him from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago home.

A representative for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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House panel: Trump criminal referral a 'roadmap to justice'

The House panel investigating Donald Trumps efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat has referred the former president for four criminal charges, including engaging in an insurrection, in what the committees chair says is a roadmap to justice.

The stunning, unprecedented referral of an ex-president came at the final meeting of the bipartisan panel on Monday afternoon. The nine members also voted unanimously to approve the final report of the 18-month investigation, which will be released on Wednesday.

The committee alleged violations of four criminal statutes by Trump, in both the run-up to the January riot and during his efforts to remain in power after his defeat by Joe Biden.

The panel is also referring four Republican members of Congress to the House ethics committee for refusing to comply with subpoenas.

The Trump referrals are for influencing or impeding a an official proceeding of the US government, conspiring to defraud the US, unlawfully, knowingly or willingly making false statements to the federal government, and assisting or engaging in insurrection against the United States.

Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, the panel chair, said the referrals will be transmitted to the justice department in very short order.

They are largely symbolic, as attorney general Merrick Garland will make his own decision on charges at the conclusion of the justice departments own investigations, headed by special prosecutor Jack Smith.

But, speaking to CNN after the session, Thompson said:

Im convinced the justice department will charge former president Trump. No-one, including the former president, is above the law.

In his opening remarks to the meeting, Thompson said: We have every confidence that the work of this committee will help provide a roadmap to justice.

John Eastman, Trumps attorney, whom the panel said had helped Trump in his conspiracy to stay in power, was also referred. Unnamed others are also likely to face referrals, including former chief of staff Mark Meadows, Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and former department of justice official Jeffrey Clark.

Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin announced the referrals. Ours is not a system where foot soldiers go to jail, and the masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass, Raskin said:

The president has an affirmative and primary constitutional duty to act to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Nothing could be a greater betrayal of this duty than to assist in insurrection against the constitutional order.

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Were wrapping up our live US politics coverage for the day, after a historic announcement from the January 6 committee that they had voted unanimously to refer former president Donald Trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution on four counts. Heres a recap of todays key events:

The four counts of the Trump referrals are for influencing or impeding an official proceeding of the US government, conspiring to defraud the US, unlawfully, knowingly or willingly making false statements to the federal government, and assisting or engaging in insurrection against the United States.

The referrals are largely symbolic, as attorney general Merrick Garland will make his own decision on charges at the conclusion of the justice departments own investigations, headed by special prosecutor Jack Smith.

The panel is also referring four Republican members of Congress to the House ethics committee for refusing to comply with subpoenas, including Kevin McCarthy, the GOP leader who is expected to run for speaker of the House when the party takes control of the chamber next year.

The January 6 committees full report is expected to be released on Wednesday.

In other high-stakes news, the supreme courts chief justice, John Roberts, has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from later this week ending a pandemic-era policy of rapidly expelling migrants caught at the US-Mexico border, at the request of Republican officials in 19 states.

Updated at 18.23EST

Whats next for the Jan 6 committee?

Though the committee has released an executive summary of its findings, a full report is expected to be made public on Wednesday.

Broader documentation of the committees interviews with more than 1,000 witnesses are also expected to be made public in the coming days, CNN reported, satisfying the demands from Trumps allies to see not just the committees clips from interviews with Trumps confidantes, but the full context.

The committee itself will dissolve, with Republicans holding a majority in Congress next year. Four members of the committee will not be returning to Congress, having lost or chosen not to run for reelection in the midterms. Despite its historic work, the committee is unlikely to serve as a political steppingstone for many of its members, the New York Times wrote.

Its unclear how the committees recommendation that Trump should face criminal justice will affect the justice departments ongoing criminal investigations into Trumps conduct on 6 January and his handling of top secret documents. Now that Trump is officially running for reelection, the justice department has appointed a special counsel, Jack Smith, a career prosecutor and political independent, to oversee those investigations.

Updated at 18.13EST

Breaking: supreme courts chief justice temporarily blocks end to pandemic-era border restrictions

At the request of Republican officials in 19 states, the supreme courts chief justice, John Roberts, has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from later this week ending a pandemic-era policy of rapidly expelling migrants caught at the US-Mexico border, Reuters reports.

The Republican officials led by the attorneys general in Arizona and Louisiana on Monday asked the supreme court to act after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to put on hold a judges ruling last month that invalidated an emergency order known as Title 42. The policy is set to expire Wednesday.

The Biden administration had faced sharp criticism for extending Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that advocates said had made the legal process of seeking asylum in the US much more dangerous, unstable and unsanitary.

Since the policy was put in place in March 2020, more than 2.4 million migrants have been expelled from the US and prevented from exercising their legal right under US and international law to seek asylum. The policy was justified as a way of preventing the spread of Covid-19.

In November, a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to lift the Trump-era asylum restriction, calling the ban arbitrary and capricious. The judge gave the justice department five weeks to implement the change, with great reluctance, setting the deadline for this Wednesday, 21 December.

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More than 9,000 threats against US lawmakers in past year, Capitol police chief says

As the January 6 committee has referred Donald Trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution on four counts, including assisting or engaging in insurrection against the United States, in another part of the Capitol, the chief of the Capitol police is testifying about the rising number of threats against members of Congress.

Some lawmakers see increased privacy protections as one response:

Updated at 17.12EST

Unanswered questions, unsolved crimes: the 6 January pipe bombs

After more than a year of work, there are still key questions about 6 January that remain unanswered, including: who was responsible for placing the viable pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committee headquarters that were discovered that day?

Asked about that issue, congressman Jamie Raskin said I dont believe there have been any updates since we first looked into it. Those are unsolved crimes, CNN reported.

Updated at 16.55EST

January 6 committee Democrat who lost her House seat: Its all been worth it.

This is Lois Beckett, picking up our live politics coverage from Los Angeles.

Democratic congresswoman Elaine Luria of Virginia, a member of the January 6 House committee, lost her reelection bid to her Republican opponent.

As Luria recapped the January 6 committees recommendations this afternoon, CNNs Jake Tapper asked her if she thought the committees work had played a role in her loss.

Luria said she believed it had, but that she felt preventing another event like January 6 was more important than her individual political career.

Its all been worth it, she said.

Luria also emphasized that the 2022 midterms more broadly had not produced a wave of victories for the most pro-Trump candidates, as the former president had hoped. The most emphatic election deniers they did not win, she said.

Luria and other Democrats told the New York Times they believed the January 6 committees work had more importance for midterm voters than polls had indicated.

Updated at 16.40EST

Four law enforcement officers who came under attack during the January 6 Capitol riot have just been on CNN, sharing their thoughts about the criminal referrals for Donald Trump handed down this afternoon by the January 6 House committee.

Daniel Hodges, DC Metropolitan Police:

Its entirely appropriate. I dont think anything is really surprising about the charges. The chatter was whether it would be meaningful at all for the committee to make these referrals and I think it is, even if its just symbolic.

Symbols have meanings, symbols of power, and, you know, future generations [will] look back and say that this branch of Congress, this branch of government, did the best they could to make accountability happen.

Michael Fanone, DC Metropolitan police:

I think it was appropriate having sat through each and every one of the committees hearings. This was the inevitable outcome. Again, you know, it is symbolic and its up to the Department of Justice, ultimately, to seek criminal accountability for those responsible for the January 6 insurrection.

Aquilino Gonell, US Capitol Police:

Its been very meaningful to have that coming from Congress, given the amount of evidence that they uncovered, and its appropriate.

Harry Dunn, US Capitol Police:

Im glad that they did it. But respectfully to the January 6 committee, its been two years. We knew what they announced today on January 7, 2021.

I really appreciate all the work that theyve done and theyre continuing to do, and the justice department is doing. But I dont even want to get into the what ifs if they dont [charge Trump].

Updated at 16.05EST

Heres our full story about this afternoons House January 6 committee meeting that approved criminal referrals for Donald Trump. Chris Stein reports:

The January 6 committee has referred Donald Trump to the justice department to face criminal charges, accusing the former president of fomenting an insurrection and conspiring against the government over his attempt to subvert the outcome of the 2020 election, and the bloody attack on the US Capitol.

The committees referrals approved by its members Monday are the first time in American history that Congress has recommended charges against a former president. It comes after more than a year of investigation by the bipartisan House of Representatives panel tasked with understanding Trumps plot to stop Joe Biden from taking office.

The committee believes that more than sufficient evidence exists for a criminal referral of former President Trump for assisting or aiding and comforting those at the Capitol who engaged in a violent attack on the United States, congressman Jamie Raskin said as the committee held its final public meeting.

The committee has developed significant evidence that President Trump intended to disrupt the peaceful transition of power under our Constitution. The president has an affirmative and primary constitutional duty to act to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Nothing could be a greater betrayal of this duty than to assist in insurrection against the constitutional order.

The committee accused Trump of breaching four federal criminal statutes, including those relating to obstructing an official proceeding of Congress, assisting an insurrection and conspiring to defraud the United States. It also believed Trump committed seditious conspiracy the same charge for which two members of the rightwing Oath Keepers militia group were found guilty of by a jury last month.

The lawmakers also referred four Republican House representatives to the chambers ethics committee. The group includes Kevin McCarthy, the GOP leader who is expected to run for speaker of the House when the party takes control of the chamber next year.

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Donald Trump could face up to 25 years in prison if he is convicted of the four criminal charges for which a House panel this afternoon referred him to the justice department.

The US code on assisting with or engaging in an insurrection allows for a sentence of up to 10 years, and disqualification from holding or running for any office under the United States for anyone convicted.

The former president announced his third run for the White House as a Republican last month.

As for the other three charges Trump could face, all carry prison terms of up to five years, conspiracy to defraud the US, unlawfully, knowingly or willingly making false statements to the federal government; and influencing or impeding a an official proceeding of the US government.

There is, of course, uncertainty over whether the justice department will charge Trump with these crimes, far more whether he would be convicted. But this is the first time we know of the potential penalties Trump faces for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Updated at 15.33EST

Well see the full report (hopefully) on Wednesday, but heres the executive summary of the January 6 House panels findings, published this afternoon at the conclusion of its final meeting.

It gives an outline of the 18-month investigation and key findings that resulted in a criminal referral for Donald Trump on four federal charges today, including assisting in or engaging in an insurrection.

You can read the panels summary here.

The House panel investigating Donald Trumps efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat has referred the former president for four criminal charges, including engaging in an insurrection, in what the committees chair says is a roadmap to justice.

The stunning, unprecedented referral of an ex-president came at the final meeting of the bipartisan panel on Monday afternoon. The nine members also voted unanimously to approve the final report of the 18-month investigation, which will be released on Wednesday.

The committee alleged violations of four criminal statutes by Trump, in both the run-up to the January riot and during his efforts to remain in power after his defeat by Joe Biden.

The panel is also referring four Republican members of Congress to the House ethics committee for refusing to comply with subpoenas.

The Trump referrals are for influencing or impeding a an official proceeding of the US government, conspiring to defraud the US, unlawfully, knowingly or willingly making false statements to the federal government, and assisting or engaging in insurrection against the United States.

Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, the panel chair, said the referrals will be transmitted to the justice department in very short order.

They are largely symbolic, as attorney general Merrick Garland will make his own decision on charges at the conclusion of the justice departments own investigations, headed by special prosecutor Jack Smith.

But, speaking to CNN after the session, Thompson said:

Im convinced the justice department will charge former president Trump. No-one, including the former president, is above the law.

In his opening remarks to the meeting, Thompson said: We have every confidence that the work of this committee will help provide a roadmap to justice.

John Eastman, Trumps attorney, whom the panel said had helped Trump in his conspiracy to stay in power, was also referred. Unnamed others are also likely to face referrals, including former chief of staff Mark Meadows, Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and former department of justice official Jeffrey Clark.

Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin announced the referrals. Ours is not a system where foot soldiers go to jail, and the masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass, Raskin said:

The president has an affirmative and primary constitutional duty to act to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Nothing could be a greater betrayal of this duty than to assist in insurrection against the constitutional order.

Updated at 16.51EST

Here are some more tweets from the House January 6 committee session today:

The four Republican congressmen who have been referred to the House ethics committee for refusing to comply with the January 6 panels subpoenas are Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader and would-be speaker from California; Jim Jordan of Ohio; Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona.

Updated at 14.42EST

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It was a rough Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago this year, and Christmas is not looking much betterunless Donald Trump accusing Santa of being a mole for radical left Democrats and throwing a plate of cookies and milk against the wall is considered standard holiday cheer in Palm Beach.

On Tuesday, one day after the January 6 committee recommended the Department of Justice charge the ex-president with four major crimes, Punchbowl News reported that the House panel has begun extensively cooperating with the Justice Departments special counsel charged with overseeing investigations into former presidentDonald Trump. That special counsel, Jack Smith, reportedly sent the committee a letter on December 5, requesting all of the panels materials from the 18-month probe, and beginning last week, the panel started sending Smiths team documents and transcripts, with plans to share more documents and transcripts in the coming days, according to Punchbowl News source.

The reported cooperation marks a new front in the DOJs criminal investigation of Trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election results and the insurrection that followed; previously, the January 6 committee had chosen not to share its findings with the department. Now, the committees year-plus of legwork, including interviews with more than 1,000 witnesses, could prove extremely valuable to Smiths investigation. Earlier this month, CNN reported that, while some in Trumps inner circle viewed Smiths appointment by Attorney General Merrick Garland as a positive development for the ex-presidents freedom, others were worried he was brought in as a hit man and is likely to indict the guy.

In other less-than-positive developments for the 2024 presidential candidate, the House Ways and Means Committee voted on Tuesday to publicly release six years of Trumps tax returns, which it obtained earlier this month to the former guys extreme chagrin. Trump, of course, has spent years going to extreme lengths to keep his tax documents under lock and key: He invented a rule that he couldnt release them because they were under audit; he begged the Supreme Court to save him; and he installed a Treasury secretary who effectively took a vow to hide every copy of the returns in his anal cavitybefore the Treasury ultimately let Congress get its hands on them. So this turn of events will obviously be deeply upsetting to him.

Prior to the vote, Republicans insisted that releasing the returns could lead to horrible, horrible acts of transparency.

While it could be sometime before the documents are released to the public, The New York Times previously noted that they may not contain major new revelations, as weve already learned a tremendous amount about Trumps finances over the last several years. In 2019, for instance, Michael Cohen,the then presidents former attorney,toldCongress that Trump regularly inflated and deflated the value of his assets when it benefited him. And earlier this year, the New York attorney generals office sued Trump and his three eldest children on accusations of lying to lenders, insurers, and tax authorities about said assets. (At the time the suit was filed, an attorney for Trumpinsistedthat absolutely no wrongdoing has taken place.)

Meanwhile, earlier this month, Trumps family business was found guilty of multiple counts of tax fraud (among other things). And then, of course, theres the 2018 story from the Timeswhich won a Pulitzerrevealingthat Trump amassed much of his fortune through dubious tax schemes, some of which included instances of outright fraud. (At the time of publication, a lawyer for Trump insisted that TheNew York Times allegations of fraud and tax evasion are 100% false and highly defamatory. There was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone. He added that if therewasfraud or tax evasion, Trump had nothing to do with it, saying: President Trump had virtually no involvement whatsoever with these matters.) Two years later, the same news organizationrevealedthat Trump had paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, another $750 in 2017, and bupkis in 10 of the previous 15 years.

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Photo by EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images Above, former US President Donald Trump speaks to the media while departing a polling station after voting in the US midterm elections at Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 8.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said on Friday that former President Donald Trump should be indicted because he already "confessed" to taking highly classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago home after leaving the White House last year.

"...It is long past time to arrest Donald Trump for his obvious crimes, his ongoing crimes. Crimes to which he has confessed," Kirschner said in a video he posted to Twitter. "He actually said 'I took these documents' more openly and more transparently than other presidents. It is not like there is some challenge in proving that Donald Trump took the documents openly and transparently."

Kirschner said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is treating Trump differently as it continues to investigate his mishandling of classified documents, which were seized by FBI agents in August following an approval from Attorney General Merrick Garland. Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in regard to the documents and said that any classified documents that he took had already been declassified.

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"You need to treat the former president, the way you treat every other American who commits crimes," Kirschner added, referring to the way the DOJ is handling its investigation. "And Donald Trump is being treated better than and different than everybody else who commits any kind of crimes that are comparable, mishandles classified information and it's wrong and it's gotta stop."

The DOJ recently asked Washington, D.C., District Chief Judge Beryl Howell to hold Trump's office in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena that was issued in May that required the former president to return all classified documents.

However, the federal judge on Friday refused to hold Trump or his legal team in contempt of court and asked the DOJ to handle the issue itself, ABC News reported. Had Judge Howell agreed to hold the ex-president in contempt, he would have been fined on a daily basis until he complied with the subpoena's requirements.

Kirschner on Friday said that Judge Howell was right to decline the DOJ's request and criticized the DOJ's prolonged process in indicting Trump as federal prosecutors asked Trump's lawyers to certify twice that the former president gave back all classified information and that no more documents were still at Mar-a-Lago, according to The Guardian.

"What Judge Howell was saying in substance 'do your job' and frankly it makes [the] DOJ look weak and feckless...unwilling or unable to deal with the crimes of Donald Trump," Kirschner said, adding later that "the federal judges have been telling the DOJ for a very long time 'take care of this problem.'"

Kirschner said that the DOJ is putting Trump a "little above the law" by not treating him the same way any American who commits crimes would be treated.

"If somebody robs a bank. First of all, we typically don't subpoena the bank robber and say 'can you please return all the money you stole to the bank or maybe bring it to the grand jury pursuant to this subpoena. No, you get a search warrant and an arrest warrant and you lock up the bank robber for the crime he committed, but that's not the way [the] DOJ decided to go with Donald Trump," Kirschner added.

Hundreds of documents with sensitive material were recovered from Trump's house during the court-authorized search. Those documents reportedly included information about nuclear programs and highly classified programs. Meanwhile, one of Trump's lawyers said in June that all classified documents were returned, but the FBI found evidence that suggested that he still kept more sensitive records.

Trump on Friday criticized authorities for taking the documents from his house.

"Under the Presidential Records Act and the very well established Clinton Socks Case, the raid of Mar-a-Lago by the FBI, and the taking of documents and many other items, was ILLEGAL," he wrote on his Truth Social platform. "Everything should be returned, at once!"

Further expressing his dissatisfaction with the way the DOJ is handling the Mar-a-Lago investigation, Kirschner said, "I am not sure when the Department of Justice is gonna get the message or get the memo that they need to indict Donald Trump for his crimes."

Newsweek reached out to Trump's office for comment.

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