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ABC host George Stephanopoulos grilled New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) for supporting Donald Trump after attacking him during the primaries.

During a Sunday interview on ABC's This Week program, Stephanopoulos asked Sununu if he would support Trump even if he is convicted in a criminal trial. While supporting Nikki Haley earlier, Sununu had said Trump should drop out if convicted.

Donald Trump's boast that he may testify in the Manhattan hush money trial beginning on Monday was greeted with no small amount of glee by a former Jan. 6 Committee investigator on Sunday morning.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Marcus Childress claimed he was "praying and wishing" the former president would try to defend himself under oath for paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016 because that would allow prosecutors from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to corner him with follow-up questions that could take weeks to go through.

Speaking with the hosts, he explained, "Look, a lot of attorneys may not agree with Donald Trump taking the stand. If I'm a prosecutor on the case, I'm praying and wishing that he does'.'

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"There are so many public statements, and as [former Trump attorney] Michael Cohen just said, Donald Trump's inability to tell the truth is so well documented that the cross-examination could last as long as voir dire when it comes to impeaching what the former president just said on direct," he stated.

"I don't think the chances of Donald Trump taking the stand are very high if he is following, I would say, a traditional more safe legal strategy," he added. "If I'm a prosecutor in this case, I am hoping and praying he does so that I can show the world exactly his character for truthfulness and impeach everything he just said prior during direct."

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Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the former president was going to win the 2024 election despite his trials because he has a "big beautiful plane."

Leavitt made the remarks Sunday on Fox & Friends after Donald Trump held a Saturday night rally in Pennsylvania.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler bluntly stated that the moment Donald Trump steps into a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, it will commence the "worst day of his life" as he faces 34 felony counts that could lead to four years in jail.

Speaking with fill-in host Charles Coleman Jr., Butler explained that for the first time in his life, the former president's actions have led to a moment in life where he faces very real consequences that could impact his freedom.

Speaking with the host, he stated, "On Monday, something historical will happen. It will be the first day in Donald Trump's life that he is beginning to be brought to judgment in a criminal case for his own alleged corruption."

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"As you noted, his lawyers have filed nine different motions to delay the trial with Judge Juan Merchan. They're trying to get around the law that they can't appeal until after the trial, that is what the Article 78 motion was about," he explained. " And the reason for that, Charles, is that Trump's defense is delay. But when he is actually brought to judgment, when his cases are heard on the merits, he loses all the time."

Donald Trump's boast that he would be more than willing to testify at his upcoming hush money trial was greeted by a great deal of skepticism by one of his former lawyers on Saturday morning.

During an extended interview on MSNBC's "The Weekend," former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen blew a hole in the idea that it would be a good thing for the former president to take the stand as he faces 34 felony counts related to paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

Speaking with the hosts, Cohen pointed out the simple fact that Trump is never a good witness when put under oath, but admitted he would enjoy it if the former president made good on his promise.

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"First of all, he has to be there as a criminal defendant — he has to be there that is part of the process," he began. "But, the likelihood of Donald Trump being on the stand is equal to the likelihood of me waking up tomorrow 7'6" and playing center for the New York Knicks, it is not going to happen."

"How many times have we heard the same story again and again and again that, you know, ''I want to testify. Absolutely I'm going to. I'm going to tell the truth,'" he elaborated. "The one thing that, you know, every time Donald opens his mouth, you know that something non-truthful is coming out of it."

"We also know that he's not a good defendant, he's not a good witness," he continued. "We watched that with the E. Jean Carroll case, where he couldn't even identify E. Jean Carroll. and confused her with Marla Maples."

"He's not a good witness, he's not going to take the stand," he re-emphasized. "I hope that I'm wrong because I think that would be classic for America to be able to see Donald Trump on the witness stand trying to defend himself in a case that is indefensible."

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Donald Trump's efforts to derail an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority has drawn more concerns that he either doesn't know what he is talking about or he has grown more confused as he ages.

During a panel discussion on MSNBC's "The Weekend," co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend kicked off the conversation by noting that the former president used his Truth Social platform to rail against a provision of FISA and botched what he was opposing.

That led co-host Alicia Menendez to jump in and state, "He's trying to make this election about Joe Biden's mental acuity when in reality it is Donald Trump who continues to get confused about things."

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Displaying comments the former president made on social media, she continued, "So, 2018, he brags; 'Just signed the 702 Bill to reauthorize foreign intelligence collection. This is NOT the same FISA law that was so wrongly abused during the election.' "

"Then on Wednesday he writes: 'Kill FISA, it was used against me and others to spy on the campaign,'" she added.

"We have Fox News pointing out he confused section 702 with Title 1," she elaborated. "I mean, he's not even clear on what he's doing."

"He doesn't know," co-host Michael Steele interjected.

"He has no idea what he's talking about," former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) pointed out.

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As Donald Trump continues to try to make inroads with Black voters, his allegedly spontaneous viral visit to an Atlanta Chick-fil-A on Wednesday came at just the right time for the indicted ex-president as the patrons and staff, mostly young Black women, appeared to gush over him.

Fox News went wild over the encounter, calling it a "surprise visit."

While dressing down Speaker Mike Johnson for paying fealty to former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, former White House spokesperson Anthony Scaramucci predicted his ex-boss is going to be outmatched on the evidence alone.

"What are you doing, standing next to that guy," Scaramucci figuratively asked about Johnson while appearing on CNN. "And what happened to the backbone of the Republican party? How did you let this guy hijack the entire party, the party of Lincoln and Reagan, and throw it in the toilet like this?