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Boebert stares down Trump enemy as she sparks mockery with court appearance

Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) were among those in the audience to support Donald Trump on Thursday — and the Colorado Republican was reportedly staring daggers at the former president's critics.

Photos were taken of the lawmakers positioned directly behind the ex-president as his trial began and Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, continued his testimony.

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‘Might use it to vote’: Republican fearmongers on Fox about green cards for immigrants

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Fox News Business host Larry Kudlow are promoting a false, fearmongering conspiracy theory President Joe Biden will be handing out green cards to undocumented immigrants in an effort to help them vote. Their remarks come as ex-president Donald Trump, running to retake the White House, has amped up his anti-immigrant focus.

Kudlow on Wednesday said he worries "a lot" that President Biden will be giving green cards to undocumented immigrants who will use them to vote. Senator Blackburn agreed, telling the former Trump National Economic Council Director, "they're gonna try to vote."

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'Deadly silence': Morning Joe warns Trump he's made 'huge mistake' accepting debate rules

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned Donald Trump against appearing alongside President Joe Biden on the debate stage, where he said his weaknesses and personality flaws will be exposed.

The former president has made Biden's age a core issue in the presidential campaign, but the "Morning Joe" host said the slightly younger Trump actually showed more signs of impairment — and he suspects that his campaign is aware of that and not too eager to highlight the side-by-side comparison.

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‘Long history of playing games’: Biden campaign shuts down Trump’s tantrum

The Biden campaign on Wednesday proposed a series of two debates with very specific rules, including shutting off the microphone of the candidate not answering a question, and Donald Trump quickly accepted the invitations, including the stipulations, before turning around and proposing an additional series of debates.

In a stinging response the Biden campaign rejected Trump's proposal.

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'You're an attorney, obviously': CNN's Kaitlan Collins catches Trump lawyer off guard

Donald Trump's attorney Will Scharf was caught off guard when he was asked a specific question by CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

She asked him: "You're an attorney, obviously: Have you ever gotten a legal retainer that was grossed up by hundreds of thousands of dollars?"

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'Not your show': Fox's Hannity mocked for demanding CNN not be allowed to fact-check Trump

Fox News' Sean Hannity has a particular demand for how the upcoming CNN-hosted debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in June should be handled: moderators shouldn't be allowed to fact-check Trump during answer blocks.

"I would add that moderators' mics, they need to be muted also after a question," said Hannity. "Why? Because it's obvious. The liberal media, they'd love to be two on one versus Donald Trump. No, that can't happen. Nor should networks be allowed to put anything on the screen but the names of the candidates."

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'They don't always do this': Court insider says jurors gave a clue during Cohen testimony

Half the jurors who will hold Donald Trump's fate in their hands once his criminal hush money trial ends were seen at various times agreeing with the prosecution's star witness, Michael Cohen, when he testified on his second day.

CNN analyst Norm Eisen was in the courtroom during the former fixer turned foe's testimony, and saw some of the jury members agree with him.

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'Outrageous': Watergate prosecutor unloads on Jim Jordan's 'lawfare' against Trump trial

Former prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks tore into Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) over his "weaponization of government" hearing that rapidly devolved into a forum to attack former President Donald Trump's one-time attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, the key witness in the Manhattan criminal hush money trial against the former president.

Wine-Banks, who served as a prosecutor in the Watergate trials, tried to outline for Jordan's committee why Trump was indicted for hoarding classified information in a separate Justice Department case, whereas President Joe Biden was not — and came away disgusted with the whole proceeding, as she explained to MSNBC's Jason Johnson.

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'As Zen as the Tasmanian Devil': Fox News host mocked for Trump 'court meditation' excuse

Donald Trump isn't sleeping in court; he is actually searching for nirvana.

That's according to Fox News anchor Jesse Watters.

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'Terrible strategy': Trump aide says ex-president's debate plan is set to hand Biden a win

Former Trump White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin thinks her erstwhile boss is making a catastrophic mistake in the run-up to the newly scheduled presidential debates — and one that he's made on previous occasions.

Specifically, she argued in a panel on CNN, he's lowering the bar all the way to the floor for President Joe Biden, and making it easy for Biden to prove him wrong and exceed it.

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Prosecutors have shown there's no good explanation for Trump's payments: Cohen's ex-lawyer

Lanny Davis, the erstwhile lawyer for former President Donald Trump's one-time attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday that the prosecution has already laid out a clear map of Trump's illegal financial schemes in the Manhattan criminal hush money trial — and the defense has not presented any convincing argument for what those payments were if not what the prosecution said.

"The document we're showing here, this is [Trump Organization CFO] Allen Weisselberg," said Tapper, putting up a document. "And it's a document that basically comes up with the amount that they are going to pay Michael Cohen, which is reimbursement for the payment to Stormy Daniels, according to the prosecutors and Michael Cohen, plus $50,000 more for this other thing having to do with, like, some bogus polling or whatever. That's $180,000 times two, so that there's no tax penalty plus $150,000 because Michael Cohen was upset he didn't get a good Christmas bonus. That's — in total that's $420,000. And then it says $35,000 every month from Donald Trump. So that is the scheme and we haven't heard an alternate suggestion as to what this is."

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'I hope you're listening': Conservative George Conway gives direct message to 'wuss' Trump

Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway went directly after Donald Trump saying that he's too scared to testify in his own defense.

Trump has been trying to go after the district attorney, the judge's daughter, and witnesses for his Manhattan trial, where he's charged with 34 felony counts involving the falsification of documents. But at no point has he explained in his own words exactly why he is innocent of the crimes accused.

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'You pander so hard': Flame-throwing MAGA candidate burned for 'weak and gay' comment

A controversial MAGA candidate faced an angry backlash from fans of a rap artist whose song appeared, possibly without permission, in a campaign video that told viewers "don't be weak and gay."

Missouri GOP Secretary of State candidate Valentina Gomez wears what looks like a bulletproof vest as she runs to the 2010 Lupe Fiasco song "The Show Goes On" in the campaign video posted Tuesday.

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