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Former Bush speechwriter David Frum on Friday argued that former President Donald Trump all but admitting this week that he wanted to lead a war against the American constitutional order.

Appearing on CNN, Frum commented on Trump saying during a campaign rally that he wanted to be driven to the United States Capitol building to be with his supporters who would go on to break into the building, chant for the hanging of Vice President Mike Pence, and send lawmakers fleeing for their lives.

Both jurors and voters have been hearing details about the "unseemly" world of tabloid publications as part of Donald Trump's hush money trial, but a legal expert explained that prosecutors must show the former president was a willing participant in those "tawdry" schemes.

The quadruple-indicted ex-president has been charged with falsifying business records to illegally conceal his hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, and panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" reacted to her attorney's testimony that exposed negotiations around celebrity scandals that walked right up to the line of extortion.

Progressive policy experts took aim at corporate greed and profiteering during a Thursday U.S. Senate hearing on "shrinkflation," the process of reducing the size or quantity of a product while selling it at the same price.

At the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing—entitled "Higher Prices: How Shrinkflation and Technology Can Impact Consumers' Finances"—Chair Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) began by acknowledging that "prices today are far too high, and families are having a harder time finding a fair price, seeing more of their paycheck vanish into thin air."

Robert F. Kennedy's outsider run for the presidency was recently given a boost at an event hosted by a New York activist organization with ties to both Donald Trump and the "stop the steal" movement that helped precipitate the Jan. 6 insurrection.

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Jake Lahut, Kennedy — whose campaign has been centered on his anti-vaccination views — appeared at a "medical freedom conference" last weekend that was backed by the Constitutional Coalition of New York State that was knee-deep in questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Since at least 2012 Donald Trump has been engaging in election denialism. Now, a tenet of the Republican Party, the refusal to accept official election results they don't like is ingrained in a large number of his followers.

“I think that the powers that be on the Democratic side have figured out a way to circumvent democracy,” Darlene Anastas, 69, of Middleborough, Massachusetts, told NBC News. The network "spoke to more than 50 Trump supporters, most of whom said they don't believe Biden can win legitimately in November."

Donald Trump's attorneys introduced a conspiracy theory during cross exam that could help them sow seeds of mistrust inside and outside the courtroom.

Defense attorney Emil Bove asked Doug Daus, a records custodian for the Manhattan district attorney's office, whether data he extracted from two cell phones belonging to Michael Cohen could have been manipulated or deleted by the FBI, and Rubin told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that was intended to give Trump and his allies another line of attack on the trial itself.

Judge Juan Merchan earned kudos from a former federal prosecutor this week for keeping order in his courtroom even though he has been routinely targeted with verbal vitriol about being "compromised" by a former U.S. president who is on trial.

"The judge is endlessly fair and made it clear he said, 'Look, there are carrots and sticks and this was a carrot in terms of Mr. Pecker,'" said former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann while appearing on "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell after spending Thursday inside the courtroom.