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A CNN panel on Wednesday took aim at claims that former President Donald Trump's fraudulent manipulation of his assets' values amounted to a "victimless" crime.

David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, made the case that shareholders of banks who lent to Trump were essentially being ripped off by the sanction of artificially cheap loans that were offered to the former president.

Federal judge Aileen Cannon ruled against Donald Trump in his classified documents case and will keep the names of potential witnesses under seal, but a legal expert found one aspect of her decision "very surprising."

Cannon agreed with special counsel Jack Smith's office that releasing their names and other identifying information could jeopardize their safety, but she ruled that witness statements could be included in public filings, which MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance said would still put those individuals at risk.

Judge Aileen Cannon appears to "resent" having to take steps to protect witnesses against former President Donald Trump from threats in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Tuesday.

This comes after Cannon, a South Florida judge appointed by Trump himself, agreed to protect the names of certain government witnesses against Trump — after special counsel Jack Smith demanded protection for several witnesses he warned would be vulnerable.

A judge refused a delay motion from former President Donald Trump as he appeals a gag order from Judge Juan Merchan barring him from incessantly attacking court officers and the judge's own family.

The worst part for Trump, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig explained on CNN Tuesday, is that even if Trump is ultimately successful in his bid to remove the gag order, it won't actually do anything to help him.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took the airwaves Tuesday to complain she'd been unjustly mocked for claiming God punished the east coast with an earthquake and sent a warning with a solar eclipse.

"They most recently mocked my faith and made fun of me saying that 'God is sending us a sign to repent!'" Greene said on the conservative platform Real America's Voice. "I really don't care what they make fun of me about."

Former President Donald Trump is not acting out of any sincerely held beliefs when he gives his backing to anti-abortion activists, argued Republican Voters Against Trump's Sarah Longwell on CNN Tuesday morning.

Rather, she said, when Trump issued his video proclaiming abortion legislation was up to the states, even as he bragged about ending Roe v. Wade and sidestepping whether he'd actually sign a federal abortion ban, he was simply trying to craft a message that will stop the issue from hurting him.

Donald Trump has less than a week to stop his New York election interference trial over the hush money he's accused of giving to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. On Monday, jury selection begins in the case.

He's already filed a blitz of motions to stop or delay the trial, none of which has managed to halt the case from moving forward. In a new lawsuit filed Monday, Trump is suing Judge Juan Merchan over the gag order he issued and then expanded. Meanwhile, Trump is telling supporters on Truth Social that he may not follow the gag order and that it would be a "great honor" to be jailed like Nelson Mandela.

The stock price of the parent company of President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform took yet another beating in trading on Monday, and CNN financial reporter Matt Egan said it was shocking to see how much the stock's value had fluctuated over the last two weeks.

"This is amazing," he said when remarking on the share prices of Trump Media. "This stock is moving around so much that it makes bitcoin look boring, right? One day, there's a gravity defying spike the next day, it crashes back to earth."

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) mocked her political archenemy Donald Trump for choosing to embrace a political issue that has cost Republicans in election after election for nearly two years.

The former president had previously signaled he's willing to support a national abortion ban but then issued a falsehood-riddled statement on the topic that inflamed liberals and angered anti-abortion conservatives on Monday.

Former President Donald Trump only recently replaced the leadership of the Republican National Committee with close allies, including his daughter-in-law Lara Trump — and it's not going well, wrote Zeeshan Aleem for MSNBC.

This comes after a disastrously botched housecleaning exercise, where the RNC tried to purge huge numbers of important staffers to rebuild the organization with Trump loyalists, only to quickly realize they lost too many people and try to rehire them back, with many refusing to do so and the Trump campaign itself condemning the chaos.

Special counsel Jack Smith's team filed a U.S. Supreme Court brief urging the justices to reject Donald Trump's immunity claim in his federal election subversion case.

The former president has appealed a District of Columbia Circuit Court ruling against his claim, which will be heard by the high court on April 25, and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin highlighted the special counsel's effort to dissuade sympathetic conservative justices from tossing the criminal case.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out the conservative establishment for papering over Donald Trump's "crazy lies" to present him as a "normal" Republican presidential candidate.

The former president issued a statement claiming credit for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which Trump then claimed was supported by "everybody" – including, he said, "all legal scholars" of every political stripe – and the "Morning Joe" host skewered those assertions as ridiculous.

While some conservatives have criticized former President Donald Trump for deferring the explosive issue of abortion from the feds to the states, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was filled with nothing but praise.

"I thought what he did, his statement was exactly right," Gingrich said during an appearance on Fox News. "People who read it carefully who read carefully and think about it — we are a country that has to have this conversation."