On Thursday, Donald Trump implored Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith to “drop all litigation” against him in an attempt to spin a report into Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents that recommended no criminal charges against the president.
On the same day, Mr Smith slammed the judge overseeing the former president’s own classified documents case for causing “significant risks of threats” to witnesses by ordering prosecutors to submit unredacted documents.
In more potentially positive legal news for Mr Trump, US Supreme Court justices appeared highly sceptical of the oral arguments put forward by Colorado as they decide whether the former president should be allowed to remain on 2024 ballot papers.
Both Colorado and Maine have moved to have him removed citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which argues that anyone found to have “engaged in insurrection” after swearing a loyalty oath should not be allowed to return to public office.
The highest court in the land, which has a conservative majority, will now rule if that applies to Mr Trump concerning the Capitol riot of 6 January 2021, when his supporters stormed Congress erroneously believing the 2020 election had been “rigged” in Joe Biden’s favour.