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Donald Trump betrayed his nervousness about the outcome of his criminal trial as he spoke to reporters outside the courtroom, according to one of his former staffers.

The jury on Wednesday began deliberations on 34 counts of falsifying business records, and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNN he noticed some quirks in the former president's body language that indicated he was worried he would be found guilty.

Fox News legal analyst Andrew McCarthy said that jury notes in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial suggested that jurors are buying into the prosecution's arguments in the case.

During a Thursday Fox News segment, host Kayleigh McEnany asked McCarthy about the jury's messages to Justice Juan Merchan.

Conservative podcast host and convicted criminal Steve Bannon said Thursday that former President Donald Trump should pick U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's wife, Martha-Ann, as vice president.

Bannon made the remarks while reflecting on an MSNBC discussion about Samuel Alito's decision not to recuse himself in a Jan. 6 case after his wife flew the U.S. flag upside down.

Judge Juan Merchan's attempt to clarify jury instructions is creating new worries for Donald Trump's defense team, a former Manhattan prosecutor told a CNN panel on Thursday morning.

On the second day of jury deliberations, the hush money trial judge attempted to clarify how circumstantial evidence can be used in the 34-felony count trial, with CNN's Joey Jackson deploying what is known as the "rain metaphor."

Pressed by hosts John Berman and Kate Bolduan to explain the morning's proceedings, Jackson stated, "John, what is circumstantial evidence? We all walk outside right, now we don't see a droplet of rain coming from the sky, but the cars seem to be wet, there are puddles that are in the street, there are other people who were wearing raincoats."

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"What can we logically infer? That it was raining outside," he elaborated. "So did you see it, John? Did you see it Kate? Did you see it, Jeremy [Saland]? None of us saw it but we could reasonably infer based upon the surrounding circumstances that it happened. That's the prosecution's main argument here."

"If the jury buys the circumstantial rain metaphor, it spells trouble for the defense," he added.

"And we'll just draw a little common sense that's the other word we need in there as well," former prosecutor Saland interjected.

"And also the rain metaphor sounds even more ominous the way Joey was describing it," co-host Bolduan contributed before asking, "But Jeremy talk about when, if they want more information and we read the tea leaves on it, this has the defense team sweating?"

"Absolutely, absolutely" he replied. "Even if we don't see it's wet, we see it over here. I've got common sense yeah. So absolutely this seems favorable, we don't know we're not there, but it seems very favorable."

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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday made another prediction of economic doom for New York City should jurors convict him of falsifying business records to cover up hush-money payments to an adult film star.

Speaking outside of a courthouse in Manhattan, the former president once again railed at his trial and argued that businessmen would flee the city for fear of being prosecuted for similar payouts to mistresses.

Donald Trump's allies are parroting his claims that the judge in his hush money trial has allowed jurors to choose which crime to convict of committing, but MSNBC's Lisa Rubin explained how the former president is misleading his followers.

The quadruple-indicted ex-president claimed New York justice Juan Merchan "is not requiring a unanimous decision on the fake charges," but, in fact, the judge instructed the jury that their verdict must be unanimous on each of the 34 counts Trump faces, although they do not have to agree on which particular unlawful means he may have used to violate state election law if they all agree he used some type of unlawful means.

With the jury dismissed for the day after more than four hours of deliberations and a series of notes to Judge Juan Merchan, legal experts are predicting Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will win his case against Donald Trump, and see jurors convict the ex-president on 34 criminal counts. The ex-president is on trial for allegedly falsifying business records as a means to cover-up a conspiracy scheme to promote his election to the Presidency by “unlawful means.”

"If I were in the DA’s office I’d be giddily bouncing off the walls right now," attorney George Conway wrote on social media late Wednesday afternoon.

As the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and leaders of NATO member nations joined the United States in advocating Ukrainian use of Western-supplied weapons to strike inside Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday that any such attacks could have grave repercussions.

"This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences," Putin told reporters during a visit to Uzbekistan. "If these serious consequences occur in Europe, how will the United States behave, bearing in mind our parity in the field of strategic weapons? It's hard to say—do they want a global conflict?"

Following a report on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris rallying Black voters in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton contrasted their appeal to voters with what he said was the contemptible way Donald Trump is trying to draw Black voters to his presidential campaign.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Sharpton first pointed to Trump recently saying that he has done more for Black Americans than Abraham Lincoln and then dropped the hammer on the former president.