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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) made a surprise appearance on NBC "Saturday Night Live" and was given a chance to pile on Donald Trump's growing problem of apparent incoherence during a parody of a CNN town hall.

Trump, played by SNL cast member James Austin Johnson, started off by attempting to explain in a rambling fashion how pop star Taylor Swift's appearance at the Super Bowl will lead to President Joe Biden stealing the 2024 election, before Haley was introduced to the surprised audience as a "concerned" South Carolina voter.

Referencing Trump's well-documented gaffe confusing Haley for Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Johnson's Trump blurted, "Oh my God, it’s her, the woman who was in charge of security on January 6!”

Given a chance to speak, the real-life Haley asked, "Are you doing OK, Donald? You might need a mental competency test.”

Johnson's Trump boasted that he "aced" a competency test before adding, "They told me I'm 100 percent mental, and I'm competent because I'm a man."

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After some back and forth that led to Trump mentioning his defamation case loss to writer E. Jean Carroll, (women "should never run our economy. Women are terrible with money... in fact, a woman I know recently asked me for $83 million"), Haley herself was put on the spot by the show's host, Ayo Edebiri of 'The Bear," who asked her, "I was just curious. What would you say was the main cause of the Civil War, and do you think it starts with an ‘s’ and ends with a ‘lavery’?”

Haley, addressing her own notable gaffe, replied, "Yup, I probably should have said that the first time."

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Despite D.C. Judge Tanya Chutkan dumping the start of Donald Trump's Jan. 6 insurrection trial off her March schedule and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon dragging her feet on the DOJ's Mar-a-Lago stolen documents case, one former federal prosecutor claimed it is not all "gloom and doom" for those who want to see the former president incarcerated.

Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explained that Trump will be spending a considerable amount of time in courtrooms for the foreseeable future.

"Let's talk about why the fact that the D.C. election interference case is not on the docket anymore is not all doom and gloom," host Phang prompted.

'It is not, because Donald Trump's criminal trial dance card remains packed," Kirshner shot back. "He has at least two trials in the coming months either of which could go, in theory, that could both go. So we will see Donald Trump criminally prosecuted in the coming months in one jurisdiction or another."

"I think the next court date to pay attention to, Katie, is March 1st," he continued. " Now, just as you indicated, the March 4th trial date in D.C. for him trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election has dropped off the calendar. And, you know, that trial will now have to await resolution of the appellate issue regarding this nonsensical claim of presidential absolute immunity."

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"But recall Judge Cannon in Florida, that's Donald Trump's prosecution for unlawfully retaining classified documents, for obstructing justice and for violating our nation's espionage laws, she set a status hearing date for a scheduling conference date for March 1st," he added. "Why? Because by March 1st I think we all knew whether the March 4th trial date would go or not."

"Technically Donald Trump is now freed up not only for his Manhattan district attorney prosecution — that is also an election interference case, falsifying documents to try to gain unfair advantage in the 2016 presidential election — that is scheduled for March 25th," he elaborated. "He is freed up to go to trial on March 25th. Technically he may also be freed up to go to trial down in Florida on May 20th which is when that trial is presently set for, though I think we feel like Judge Cannon may try to, sort of, push them down the road a little bit."

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According to Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson, Donald Trump's legal problems along with his gaffes and bizarre off-the-cuff remarks are creating a larger pool of conservative voters much more receptive to voting for President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election.

Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang, Wilson called the embattled ex-president an "obviously insane and an adjudicated rapist" who is faced with a major problem hanging on to conservative voters, and that there are more persuadable voters for the Lincoln Project to target than there were in 2020.

"We have an expanded range of voters who are responsive to an anti-Trump message than we did in 2020," he reported to the host. "In 2020, depending on the state, we modeled between three and eight percent of Republicans and independent-leaning voters who could be reached and moved by our message."

If Trump defends himself in the New York City criminal case for allegedly securing a hush money payment to an adult movie star, it could prove to be a demanding case to beat, argues a prominent legal expert.

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman appeared on CNN on Friday to explain why former President Donald Trump shouldn't feel relief that this criminal case may be the first draw out of the four.

A defense attorney in one of the January 6 cases raged against the "double standard" being given to former President Donald Trump as his supporters take the fall for what he incited them to do at the U.S. Capitol, reported CBS News' Scott MacFarlane on Friday.

This complaint, he noted, came down just minutes before Judge Tanya Chutkan suspended Trump's criminal trial date in the D.C. case, due to the ongoing delay in the Court of Appeals ruling on whether Trump has immunity from prosecution.