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The late night host roasted Trump and his legal team for saying the “most ridiculous answer imaginable” to whether a president can should be immune from prosecution if they order a rival’s assassination by the US military.

On his Tuesday night show, Kimmel pointed out the absurdity of the Trump attorney’s argument and joked about what it might unwittingly mean for the Republican.

“If the president can order SEAL Team Six to kill a political rival, Trump had better lock the doors at Mar-a-Lago because ‘Bazooka Joe’ Biden has every reason to blow it to kingdom come right now.”

Amelia Neath has more.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of CNN’s Iowa debate, a two-hander between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis since Donald Trump will be elsewhere while no else has qualified.

A man whose life was upended by right-wing conspiracy theories accusing him of being a federal agent assigned to entrap Trump’s supporters has been sentenced to one year of probation for crimes connected to the January 6 attack.

Ray Epps received a sentence of 12 months of probation on 9 January after pleading guilty to a charge of disorderly or disruptive conduct for joining a mob in Washington DC and encouraging rioters to march to the US Capitol, where the former president’s loyalists stormed the halls of Congress to reject the results of the 2020 presidential election.

He was sentenced in the same building where Mr Trump was attending his own hearing to defend his claim to “immunity” from prosecution for his attempts to overturn the election, culminating in the mob fuelled by his election lies that he failed to stop.

Alex Woodward reports.

The former US first lady has been discussing her anxieties about what might happen in November as the 2024 election year gets underway in earnest.

You can watch her interview with podcaster Jay Shetty below, courtesy of Indy TV.

Trump has said presidential immunity is “the least” he is entitled to, in a rambling six-minute video in which he accused Joe Biden of “opening a giant Pandora’s box.”

The former president accused his political rival of being “the most corrupt president” in US history and warned him to “be careful” ahead of his appearance in an appeals court.

In a video released on social media on Monday ahead of his appearance in Washington, he once again accused Biden of “weaponising” the justice system against him and claimed that “people are angry that I [did] such a good job”.

Mike Bedigan has this report.

The trio of judges on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit appeared to be sceptical about former president Trump’s claim that he enjoys sweeping immunity from prosecution as an ex-chief executive during arguments in their Washington DC courtroom on Tuesday.

With Trump present in the courtroom, not far from where a riotous mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol just three years ago, all three members of the three-judge panel expressed at least some level of doubt at the arguments put forth by his attorneys, who were appealing a district court judge’s decision denying him the immunity that would prevent him from being tried on charges related to his efforts to unlawfully remain in office after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

Andrew Feinberg and Alex Woodward have more.

Former president Donald Trump’s lawyer told a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday that a president would be immune from prosecution unless impeached and convicted, even if he was accused of having ordered a rival’s murder by the US military.

During arguments in a Washington DC courtroom, Trump attorney D John Sauer told Judges Michelle Childs, Florence Pan and Karen Henderson that Trump is immune from prosecution under the impeachment and double jeopardy clauses of the US Constitution, citing the Senate’s 2021 acquittal of the ex-president on charges that he incited the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Judge Florence Pan, a 2022 appointee to the circuit court by President Joe Biden, almost immediately began a rapid-fire questioning of Sauer over his contention.

She asked him if, hypothetically, a president could order the killing of a rival by the US military or sell pardons and be immune from any legal consequences.

“I understand your position to be that a president is immune from criminal prosecution for any official act that he takes as president even if that action is taken for an unlawful or unconstitutional purpose, is that correct?” she said.

Andrew Feinberg reports.

What else has the Republican been up to on social media?

Screaming nonsensically in all-caps about his legal affairs, of course, the below being a particularly fine example of Trump Derangement Syndrome afflicting Patient Zero.

More interestingly, he is back to criticising Fox News, on the eve of that same network hosting a town hall event with him in Iowa ahead of the state’s caucuses early next week.

He’s accusing them of “building up” Nikki Haley in New Hampshire by even quoting a poll that’s relatively favourable towards her.

Trump intends to personally deliver part of the defence’s closing argument at the conclusion of his civil fraud trial in New York on Thursday, according to a report by ABC News.

The Republican is a defendant alongside his two eldest sons, Don Jr and Eric, as well as two former Trump Organization executives.

They are represented by lawyers Christopher Kise, Clifford Robert and Alina Habba but Trump is reportedly keen to give part of the closing argument himself.

ABC News says their sources say the plans remain fluid.

The former president posted a slew of video messages to Truth Social on Tuesday afternoon, four of which were directly about the judge in the case, Justice Arthur Engoron.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports.