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Former President Donald Trump's MAGA lawmaker allies aren't helping his criminal hush money case by showing up at the courthouse — and they may be hurting him by angering the judge and the jury, one former Trump attorney says.

Tim Parlatore spoke with CNN anchor Brianna Keilar Wednesday after several GOP lawmakers attended the New York City trial, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) even at one point trying to hold a press conference inside the courthouse and being rebuffed.

A caller on C-SPAN's morning show explained that she had left the Republican Party because its lawmakers "do nothing but interfere" and "endorse everything [Donald] Trump does."

During Wednesday's Washington Journal program, a caller from Maryland named Mary said she used to be a Republican but changed her party affiliation to Independent.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell expressed rage Wednesday over a recently adopted flag in Minnesota that he believes is a secret plot to implement Islamic law in the state. He called the flag "an atrocity."

"What they've done with this flag is absolutely outrageous," Lindell told right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon.

Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) tore into Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for holding a hearing in defense of former President Donald Trump as he faces dozens of criminal charges.

At Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on government weaponization, Plaskett made it clear that Republicans were only concerned with protecting Trump.

Former President Donald Trump's legal defense team has to continue going after Michael Cohen to prevent a conviction in the Manhattan criminal case, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Sara Sidner on Wednesday — and there are two key points they need to hammer home if they want to do it.

Although Manhattan prosecutors have done everything in their power to corroborate Cohen's accounts of Trump's alleged criminal conduct in the hush payment scheme to adult film star Stormy Daniels, using independent evidence and witnesses, and although some experts believe the first round of the Trump defense team's cross-examination of Cohen went poorly, the fact remains that he's an impeachable witness, Honig said.

CNN host Kasie Hunt shook her head in exasperation Wednesday as Florida Congressman Rep. Cory Mills rattled off defenses for Donald Trump’s hush money trial.

Mills, who accompanied the former president to the Manhattan criminal courtroom Tuesday, stuck to talking points that are frequently repeated by MAGA allies.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough went on an extended rant on Wednesday morning over a recent questionable — according to analysts— New York Times/Siena poll that showed Donald Trump with unusually huge leads in battleground states, with the "Morning Joe" host accusing the venerable newspaper of publishing "garbage" to create news.

According to the NYT poll, President Joe Biden is struggling with young voters and voters of color. However, as co-host Mika Brzezinski pointed out, polling experts have taken to social media to rip the pollsters' methodology apart saying the final results have been "skewed" in Trump's favor.

Defendant Donald Trump may gripe about being tethered to court and unable to stump for president on the campaign trail, but that's not stopping his devoted allies from turning a Manhattan courtroom into campaign headquarters.

Huddling around a lo-fi camera setup Tuesday and claiming to be at the 100 Centre Street criminal courthouse in Lower Manhattan were Trump's son Eric, his wife and RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump, along with Reps. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Cory Mills (R-FL) and former presidential candidate and vice president contender Vivek Ramaswamy.

Donald Trump's lead attorney shocked legal experts with his cross examination of a star witness fixer who says he helped the former president funnel $130,000 in hush money payments to an adult film star with a story to tell.

CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen said Tuesday he was stunned that Todd Blanche managed to commit the "cardinal sin of cross examination" in a New York City criminal court trial that involves infamous tapes, alleged Lake Tahoe trysts and a historic presidential election.

Stormy Daniels and her family will likely flee the country should former President Donald Trump be found not guilty in his criminal hush money case, her husband said Tuesday in an exclusive interview with CNN.

Barrett Blade appeared on "Out Front" about one week after Daniels testified about the affair she says she had with Trump — who denies the encounter — at the heart of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's criminal case.

NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard said Tuesday that Trump's behavior in court is coming off as if he doesn't care — and the jury is noticing it.

Speaking to MSNBC, Hillyard said actions like shutting his eyes are sending a clear defiant signal to anybody watching.