Filing, citing this social media post from trump that reads, if you go after me, im coming after you. Trumps campaign defended the post as the definition of political speech. And said it had nothing to do with the case. Now smith wants the judge to ban trumps defense team from sharing sensitive evidence with the former president. He argues trump may publicly disclose that information, as hes done in the past. And yesterday, the former president also entered a not guilty plea to three new charges. Those are in the classified documents case. The filings mark the second time in 24 hours that the former president entered a not guilty plea. The former president s extensive legal troubles dont appear to be slowing his campaign. Last night in alabama, he called the cases election interference. Every one of these many fake charges filed against me by the corrupt biden d. O. J. , could have been filed two and a half years ago, they didnt want to do it two and a half years ago, they wanted to wa
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President putin may be factoring the 2024 presidential elections into his ukraine war approach. essentially banking on the possibility that if president biden loses, and trump or another republican candidate wins, that u.s. support for ukraine would diminish, which would then of course benefit putin. and now this is not a steadfast hard u.s. intelligence assessment on putin s mindset but u.s. officials do think that he is taking this into consideration, and as one expert said, it is basically a potential light at the end of the tunnel for putin that would drive down any possibility of a near-term resolution to this war. now, obviously, we know that the likelihood of a near-term resolution is quite low now. but this could incentivize putin, folks are concerned in the u.s. and europe, to drag on the war, through november of next year. kylie atwood, cnn, washington. let s stay focused on
Ukraine. cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood joins me. this is notable. seems to be this man believes he ll have an easier course in ukraine in biden is no longer president and trump is. that s exactly it. officials concerned he s factoring in the u.s. election, which we should note is more than a year from today, into his strategy on the battlefield in ukraine, essentially banking on the possibility that if joe biden doesn t win this election, there s a republican in office, of course potentially trump being one of those, considering he s the leading player in the primary right now, that u.s. support for ukraine is going to diminish, and that would of course benefit putin, essentially incentivizing him to drag out this war for longer. resources, of course, are a question. there isn t an intelligence assessment his mind on this, but this is what sources are saying. putin knows trump will help him, and so do the ukrainians and our