Fundraising that didn’t meet expectations and spending that was profligate. A campaign manager now under fire. And a candidate for a second time in weeks expected to engage with a mainstream media he has disdained. ⁦@ShaneGoldmacher⁩ and me nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/… The bizarre anti LGBT video that appeared to have been picked up by DeSantis War Room from a friendly Twitter user was actually made by a campaign aide and made to look like it came from elsewhere, a person w knowledge of what happened said nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/…

Trump tells me minutes ago he has NOT been told he’s getting indicted, when contacted. “It’s not true,” he said, adding again he hasn’t done anything wrong. Trump statement came amid a report from one of his allies that he has been told this. NYT, CNN, WaPo and other outlets have all reported federal officials have been building toward a likely indictment, including with witnesses in Miami before a grand jury today.

Confirming WaPo from earlier, @alanfeuer and me on Trump aide Walt Nauta getting an assist from a Mar-a-Lago worker moving boxes back into the storage room shortly before Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran began a search of what was there nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/… Corcoran, who believed he didn't have proper clearance to transport the documents himself, called DOJ that night to arrange for them to come get them. nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/…

Jack Smith’s team has been drilling down in interviews about a map with sensitive intelligence that they’ve questioned whether Trump showed people aboard a plane or showed an adviser, Adam Goldman ⁦@alanfeuer⁩ me nytimes.com/2023/04/12/us/… They also been asking details about his travel schedule around the time of the May 2022 subpoena and whether he scheduled it to be present after the subpoena was issued nytimes.com/2023/04/12/us/…

Trump accompanied by lawyers Todd Blanche and Susan Necheles, as well as adviser Jason Miller and aide Walt Nauta, per person briefed. Trump was fingerprinted a person familiar with events said but not mugshotted. But people fundraising in his name aren’t wasting the opportunity and made their own mugshot, as this email that just landed shows

Trump's time-tested strategy in legal cases, most of them civil, is attack and delay. It's unclear if it will be the same here: one of the lawyers involved in some of his cases suggested it could change @WRashbaum @charlie_savage @Jonesieman me nytimes.com/2023/04/01/nyr… When he was under investigation for possible obstruction of justice in the Mueller case (Mueller made clear he wouldn't challenge Justice Dept policy re a sitting potus) Trump talked about the case a lot, including tweets treated as possible obstruction nytimes.com/2023/04/01/nyr…

Confirmed with @alanfeuer - Boesberg issued two separate rulings which may be appealed but if they hold, Pence goes before GJ and answers specific questions about Trump

https://twitter.com/kfaulders/status/1640764177261232162

In particular, Boesberg rejected the Trump executive privilege claim and issued a split ruling on Pence’s speech or debate clause argument, finding that Pence must testify on any illegal acts committed by Trump.

With a likely Trump indictment, Michael Cohen -- who served 13 months in prison, was interviewed for dozens of hours by agencies/elected officials, and whose testimony helped start the NYAG case-- is going to have his day in court. Protess @Jonesieman me nytimes.com/2023/03/22/nyr… “In dealing with me, he has never varied from our first meeting in 2019 to today in the details of what happened both in the hush-money and in the larger financial frauds," said @NormEisen nytimes.com/2023/03/22/nyr…

Democrats and some Republicans have made keeping Trump from the Oval Office their priority. But over the last year he’s shown he doesn’t need his hands on the levers of govt to have impact and, in the minds of many, to do damage. nytimes.com/2023/03/20/us/… The Trump post declaring he would be arrested Tuesday, which wasn’t based on anything concrete, was nonetheless a starter’s gun for Republicans to defend him against a Bragg indictment nytimes.com/2023/03/20/us/…

nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/… Hard to overstate how much anxiety Trump, who was first investigated criminally in the late 1970s, has around the prospect of being arrested nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/…

.@alanfeuer, @jessemckinley and me on Boris Epshteyn, the latest in a long line of aides who've tried to be Trump's 2.0 Roy Cohn. nytimes.com/2023/03/14/us/… Despite lacking a track record as a strategist or operative, Epshteyn made more than $1.1 million last cycle from at least 13 candidates after records show he worked for just two prior to that nytimes.com/2023/03/14/us/…

After weeks of dancing between the raindrops on Ukraine, DeSantis makes his views clear to Tucker Carlson: Protecting Ukraine not a key US interest. @jonathanvswan and me nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/… DeSantis's view is at odds with prospective candidates like Pence and the declared hopeful Haley, but in line with where Trump has been for months @jonathanvswan nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/…

Trump's promise to be people's "retribution" foreshadows a term of spite if he returns to the White House. @ShaneGoldmacher and me nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/… .@AmbJohnBolton on Trump's remarks: “It would be, first and foremost, getting back at the people he thinks deserve some kind of punishment for not doing what he tells them to do. And it’s a big group of people.” nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/…

NEW: DeSantis to Iowa, NV and NH in the next few weeks - and possibly South Carolina nytimes.com/2023/02/28/us/… The stops in the key early primary states are part of a non-book tour (places where he's been invited to speak but has to be careful because of Florida rules on the executive accepting gifts) but are his unmistakable entry to the national stage nytimes.com/2023/02/28/us/…

"Did former President Trump consume detailed information about foreign countries while in office? How extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered with? Did he indicate he knew he was leaving when his term ended?" nytimes.com/2023/02/12/us/… Those are among the questions DOJ investigators have been directing at witnesses, as Smith has assumed control of the federal investigations into the former president operating under a compressed timeframe nytimes.com/2023/02/12/us/…

When Trump posted innuendo about DeSantis on his social media site, DeSantis demurred instead of firing back. Instead, his harshest hit that week was on the press. @MichaelCBender and me on whether DeSantis is going to be able to sustain this posture nytimes.com/2023/02/12/us/… DeSantis, who has never run nationally,is leaving himself a short runway and little margin for error with a likely late announcement. And history is filled with Rs trying to figure out how to handle Trump’s smears and attacks finding themselves steamrolled nytimes.com/2023/02/12/us/…

Ben Protess and me on Evan Corcoran going before the grand jury, a potentially major moment in the Mar-a-Lago docs investigation depending on the circumstances under which he appeared nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/… Corcoran has been on prosecutors' radar since last year, after his various assertions to them as they were making efforts to see if Trump had any remaining classified documents or presidential records at Mar-a-Lago nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/…

What if the field is smaller than people think? ⁦@MichaelCBender⁩ ⁦@reidepstein⁩ and me on the strangely static state of the GOP primary, in which few have been eager to be a Trump target and most major donors are frozen nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/… A number of Republican donors and current/former electeds are preoccupied with the potential for another version of the 2016 primaries playing out. One is Paul Ryan, who has told people that donors/others need to find a way to keep the field small nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/…

Via @MichaelCBender and me, Trump's first filing - covering the six weeks after midterms - is not the show of strength people came to expect of his fundraising as a nominee and then president nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/… Trump is being judged partly on metrics he has demanded in the past he should be, with a campaign that often bragged about its hauls. But he insisted, despite objections from aides, on announcing right after a poorer than expected midterms for Rs nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/…

The fraying of Trump’s well-work legal playbook as he faces a crush of simultaneous civil and criminal threats > nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/… Trump was first investigated by federal prosecutors in the 1970s, a case sparked by the reporting of the late Wayne Barrett and which had a weak witness and an approaching statute of limitations. Trump appeared to believe he’d talked his way out of danger nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/…

NEW: W @nytmike, Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba sanctioned nearly $1 million for frivolous lawsuit accusing Clinton, the DNC, Comey and others of a sweeping conspiracy to harm him in 2016 nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/… Just as Cheney during J6 hearings dismissed suggestions Trump was simply being given bad advice when he tried to thwart the transfer of power, the judge in the case laid the blame for the suit at Trump's feet