On the CAFE Insider docket:

– The closing arguments in former President Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial, and Trump’s in-court speech criticizing the case;

– Trump’s motions to dismiss the Georgia criminal charges, citing presidential immunity and double jeopardy violations;

– The arguments made by a Trump co-defendant in Georgia accusing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of engaging in an improper relationship with a lead prosecutor in the case; and

– Federal prosecutors’ new public corruption allegations against Senator Bob Menendez, including a bribery scheme involving Qatar.

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