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The extraordinary legal peril surrounding Donald Trump is reaching a fever pitch at the same time the former president is forging ahead in a 2024 Republican primary that is increasingly dominated by criminal investigations in New York, Washington and Atlanta. Source: CNN

Behind the gilded doors of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump and his advisers are preparing for several different potential scenarios related to a possible indictment from the Manhattan grand jury probing a hush money scheme. Source: CNN

• Video: Maggie Haberman on what could happen if Trump is arrested • Analysis: Grand jury indictments, explained • DOJ convinces federal judge Trump used his attorney in furtherance of a crime in classified docs probe • Opinion: Trump’s risky call for protests Source: CNN

While the country anticipates the first-ever indictment of a former president — assuming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charges Donald Trump with a crime — it’s worth looking at the mechanics of what’s going on in the legal system and how the process that applies to everyone is being applied to Trump. Source: CNN

Donald Trump’s Republican allies in the House are doing what the former president taught them to do — use government power to try to keep his legal threats at bay. Source: CNN

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Amid all the other uncertainties surrounding the possible indictment of Donald Trump, the flurry of events has made one thing unequivocally clear: the former president remains the center of the GOP universe. Source: CNN

• Analysis: Attacks on Manhattan investigation show GOP still can’t break from Trump • Analysis: House GOP uses new government power to try to defend Trump • Opinion: Trump’s risky call for protests Source: CNN

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