Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who is investigating whether Trump and his allies broke any laws as they tried to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, is fighting back against the former president’s attempt to remove her from the case and exclude certain evidence.

Speaking of the Florida governor, his tenure has ushered in a sweeping package of bills targeting transgender people in what has been described as the most impactful series of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in state history.

The bills – which restrict gender-affirming care for minors, threaten drag shows, forbid people from using bathrooms that match their gender identity, and prevent people from using their chosen pronouns at schools – have been sharply criticised by LBGTQ+ advocates and are out of step with established procedures for trans people back by major medical organisations like the American Medical Association.

Former Florida state representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, the first openly LGBTQ+ Latino elected to the state legislature, wrote on Twitter the bills are “revoking our freedoms and ruining people’s lives in his quest for political power.”

“We will NOT be erased,” he added. “We will RESIST. We will FIGHT BACK. We will proudly RAISE OUR FLAGS. We will WIN.”

The Donald has been up late again “retruthing” bad news for the Florida governor wherever he can find it, posting stories from the likes of Newsweek and The New York Times to undermine his likely rival for the Republican presidential nomination – a sure sign that he is rattled by the threat Ron “DeSanctimonious” represents.

Trump was gloating after his pick for the Republican nomination to be Kentucky’s next governor, Daniel Cameron, won the race on Tuesday night while DeSantis’s choice, Kelly Craft, finished third in the GOP primary.

DeSantis’s pick for Jacksonville mayor also lost that same evening when Democrat Donna Deegan defeated Republican Daniel Davis.

US president Joe Biden would be vaulted to a massive lead over Donald Trump if the latter faces further criminal charges from the federal and state criminal investigations into his conduct, according to a new poll obtained by The Independent.

The poll of 1,571 registered voters was conducted by WPA Research, a Republican polling firm.

The CEO of WPA is an adviser to Never Back Down, the Super PAC supporting Florida governor Ron DeSantis, but the survey was conducted independently without his input and was not sponsored by the Super PAC.

The former president has been busy attempting to take “credit” for the US Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade last year by pointing out that he nominated the justices who did not agree with the 1973 precedent.

On Tuesday evening’s episode of Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax, Mr Trump compared his action against abortion to Florida governor Ron DeSantis’, saying he has done more for pro-life people.

“I’m the one that got rid of Roe v Wade and everybody said that was an impossible thing to do,” Mr Trump boasted.

A key lawyer for former president Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he was leaving his legal team, a move that comes as a special counsel investigation into the retention of classified documents shows signs of being in its final stages.

Timothy Parlatore told the Associated Press that his departure had nothing to do with Mr Trump and was not a reflection on his view of the Justice Department’s investigation, which he has long called misguided and overly-aggressive, or on the strength of the government’s evidence. He said he believed he had served Mr Trump well.

Other lawyers, including former Justice Department prosecutor James Trusty, are continuing to represent Mr Trump in Washington investigations.

Donald Trump has been on yet another bizarre rant on Truth Social over the fallout from his controversial town hall hosted by CNN at a New Hampshire college last week.

“It’s really amazing to watch the head of CNN get absolutely lambasted for asking me to do a so-called Town Hall,” Mr Trump wrote, referring to the network’s CEO Chris Licht.

He continued: “In all fairness, nobody had any problems with what he wanted to do until after the show started, when they quickly realised that [Kaitlan] Collins was not exactly Barbara Walters, or even close. That’s when the trouble from the Radical Left started. Neurotic little AOC with the bad looking boyfriend, went crazy. He owns CNN, he’s in their head,’ they screamed. CNN, take the GREAT RATINGS!”

The top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, who has announced her resignation, tried to influence the outcome of a race for Boston’s district attorney and violated multiple policies, the Justice Department’s internal watchdog said in a report released on Wednesday.

The inspector general’s 161-page report alleges a broad array of misconduct by US attorney Rachael Rollins.

It accuses her of disclosing to a journalist non-public information about a Justice Department investigation, soliciting and accepting 30 free tickets to a Boston Celtics game and accepting payment from a sports and entertainment agency for travel and means.

The National Archives has been called more than 80 times in the past decade-plus about classified materials found in the papers of former members of Congress and other US officials, according to newly released congressional testimony.

That figure underscores the weaknesses in how the US government tracks and safeguards its most important secrets.

Investigations are underway into the classified materials found in the holdings of former president Donald Trump and in later searches of files held by president Joe Biden before he won the White House and those in the possession of Mr Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence.

In case you missed it, former president Donald Trump’s attorney Timothy Parlatore is leaving his legal team, CNN reported on Wednesday.