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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) cast shame on Republican members of Congress after they "hung out with a felon" by meeting with Donald Trump.

During a Thursday House Judiciary Committee hearing, Swalwell alluded to Trump's visit with Republican lawmakers earlier in the day. The hearing sought to examine Trump's hush money conviction in New York.

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing convened by chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) to discuss the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of former president Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff used his time to troll the Republican-dominated committee by reminding them that their putative leader is a convicted felon.

Granted his five minutes, the California Democrat began, "I wanted to begin by quoting the jury in the Manhattan hush money trial," at which point he stated the word "guilty" 34 times [editor's note: we counted] reflecting the end result of the trial.

He then continued, "This was what the jury pronounced. Unanimously on every count. My Republican colleagues don't really contest Donald Trump's guilt. This is the fascinating thing; their argument has been he should never have been prosecuted. Where they falsely claim it was a political prosecution. They falsely claim it should have been a misdemeanor, not a felony."

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"But they don't contest, not really, that Donald Trump was making hush money payments to a porn star to hide their affair from voters," the former prosecutor continued. "What they are really saying is they're comfortable electing and nominating someone as president of the United States someone who made hush money payments to a porn star."

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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to maintain the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion drug Mifepristone and the co-hosts of "The View" were shocked to hear that it was a unanimous decision.

All justices agreed that the doctors complaining about the drug didn't have standing to bring the case because they didn't use the drug in their practices and were instead only basing the case on their own personal objections.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) clashed with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) at a hearing on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of former President Donald Trump.

Moments after the hearing got underway on Thursday, Chairman Jordan called on Gaetz to question witnesses for five minutes. However, Gaetz offered a motion to subpoena Bragg and Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo.

Former President Donald Trump reportedly praised Hannibal Lecter, a fictional cannibal, at a meeting with Republican lawmakers Wednesday.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made the remarks while speaking to the House Republican caucus, according to CNN.

A new viral video showed supporters of Donald Trump arguing that the Earth is flat.

According to The Good Liars, a comedy duo, the video was filmed at a rally for Trump. It had over a million views by Thursday.

Former President Donald Trump claimed that he might intentionally lose the first presidential debate of 2024 in an effort to keep President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.

During an interview that aired Thursday on Real America's Voice, Trump sought to lower expectations for his debate performance. He argued that Biden should take a drug test before the event.

Donald Trump is headed to Capitol Hill to meet with Republican lawmakers, but a former GOP congressional staffer doesn't expect them to talk much about policy and instead will focus on keeping their presumptive presidential nominee one step ahead of the law.

The former president will return to the U.S. Capitol for the first time since the Jan. 6 insurrection, and political adviser Amanda Carpenter told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Trump likely hopes to extract assurance from congressional Republicans that they will help him escape legal consequences for provoking that attack, as well as the other cases in which he's been indicted or already convicted.

With Donald Trump headed to Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with GOP lawmakers including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), CNN's John King reported that some GOP lawmakers would just prefer not having to deal with him at all.

Speaking with host John Berman, King stated that ever since the former president first came on the political scene there have been Republicans who privately have taken shots at him but have held their tongues publicly because they fear his wrath.

"That Donald Trump is back on Capitol Hill of all places as Republican kingmaker is a wow," King told Berman who replied, "You know, it's interesting because there's the issue of what it says about him and, as I think, you know, he's got this skill, whether you liked him or not, this political resilience that is in many ways unprecedented, but what does it say about them?"

"What does it say about these Republican members who absolutely were saying other things on January 6, 7, 8, and 9th?" he asked.

"Many of them, some will never say this publicly, but in private conversations, many of them from the beginning had been trying to figure out how do we make him go away? How does he go away?" King replied. "When will the trap door open and he will go away because, never mind 5:00 A.M. tweets when he was president, even never mind the insurrection. I know the people out there throw things at the TV."

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"But he's not a conservative, he's not one of us, he doesn't stand up against Vladimir Putin. You know, he's just not a traditional Reagan Republican or a Bush Cheney Republican," he said of the GOP lawmakers.

"They've wanted him gone a long time, but they haven't even figured out how," he elaborated, "and I think that the fact that the Marco Rubios and Ted Cruzes and the people who Trump just eviscerated in 2016 and still to this day doesn't really respect and thinks he dominates will just follow him. Follow him because they are afraid of his people they're afraid of the phone calls, the protests, the people back home."

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CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams found himself appalled on Thursday after seeing former President Donald Trump's latest fundraising pitch.

During a roundtable discussion, host Kasie Hunt displayed a message Trump sent out to his supporters this week that began with the subject header, "HAUL OUT THE GUILLOTINE!"

Paul Ryan rebuked Donald Trump in a Fox News interview, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out his opposition as insufficient.

The former House speaker and current Fox Corporation board member questioned Trump's character and fitness for office, calling him an authoritarian and a drag on other Republican candidates, but the "Morning Joe" host lambasted Ryan for stopping short of saying he would vote for President Joe Biden and saying he would instead cast a write-in vote.