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Washington Post -  Some recent pitches have raised eyebrows even among longtime Trump observers and advisers. Emails falsely claimed that the FBI wanted to shoot Trump during a court-authorized search of his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida for classified documents he allegedly unlawfully retained after leaving office. “Put Biden on Trial,” one read. “Darkest day in American history!” another read.

Trump’s warning of “ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!” resembles his tweet calling for his supporters to come to a rally Jan. 6, 2021 — “Be there, will be wild!” — that helped inspire violent extremist groups to buy weapons and make attack plans. Former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon said on the eve of the rally that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow,” and the rally turned into a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.

After the election in 2020, Trump and his campaign raised more than $100 million on false claims that the election was stolen. Those emails and fundraising pitches came under scrutiny by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, who pursued an investigation into whether anyone committed wire fraud by raising money off false election claims, according to people with knowledge of the investigation. No one has been charged related to the inquiry, but multiple witnesses were asked about who drafted fundraising language and whether anyone raised concerns about the claims being false at the time.More recently, Trump has used terms such as “bedlam” or a “bloodbath” to describe possible outcomes if he loses the November election. “If we don’t win, you know, it depends,” he said when asked directly about the possibility of violence in an April interview with Time magazine.

Arizona delegates to the Republican National Convention gathered this month in a Phoenix suburb, showing up to get to know each other and learn about their duties. Part of the presentation included a secret plan to throw the party’s nomination of Donald Trump for president into chaos. The instructions did not come from “Never Trumpers” hoping to stop the party from nominating a felon when delegates gather in Milwaukee next month. They instead came from avowed “America First” believers hatching a challenge from the far right — a plot to release the delegates from their pledge to support Trump, according to people present and briefed on the meeting, slides from the presentation and private messages obtained by The Washington Post.The delegates said the gambit would require support from several other state delegations, and it wasn’t clear whether those allies had been lined up. One idea, discussed as attendees ate finger-foods, was for co-conspirators to signal their allegiance to one another by wearing matching black jackets.

NY Times - Former President Donald J. Trump’s stake in his social media company is worth about half of what it was before his conviction on charges of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 presidential campaign. Mr. Trump’s roughly 65 percent stake in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, was worth roughly $6 billion on May 30, the day a New York jury found him guilty on all 34 charges. On Friday, the value of his 115 million shares of Trump Media had dropped to about $3.2 billion. 

Mediate -  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg requested that a judge should extend former President Donald Trump’s gag order due to dozens of threats made against officials connected to the hush money case. Back in April amidst his criminal trial, Judge Juan Merchan placed a gag order on the former president barring him attacking witnesses, jurors, and court staff involved in the trial, as well as Merchan’s relatives... 

Trump’s lawyers have sought to remove the gag order placed on Trump since the conviction but prosecutors have argued that although the gag order no longer needs to stay in place relating to trial witnesses, it should still be kept in place regarding jurors, prosecutors, court staff and their families, according to The New York Times.  Per the Times, the New York Police Department has found that 56 “actionable threats” have been made towards Bragg and his employees and family since the beginning of April. Bragg’s office cited this information when asking for Trump’s gag order to be extended on Friday.