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Fresh off winning an $83 million verdict against former President Donald Trump, writer E. Jean Carroll appeared on CNN for a wide-ranging interview where she commented, among other things, on the performance of Trump attorney Alina Habba.

During the interview, CNN played Carroll a clip of Habba ranting outside of the courtroom last week and claiming that Judge Lewis Kaplan had improperly blocked her from calling defense witnesses, despite the fact that Trump had already been found liable by a jury for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, and this trial was only to assess what damages Trump owed her.

Appearing on CNN early Monday morning, New York writer E. Jean Carroll called Donald Trump an "emperor with no clothes" whose power has diminished now that he has been held responsible for defaming her.

Accompanied by her lawyer Robbie Kaplan, the recipient of a $83.3 million damage award levied against the former president admitted she was initially nervous about encountering the ex-president in court but then she realized he has become a non-entity.

"There he was, and he was nothing," she told CNN hosts Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly. "Just, no power. He had — he was zero. That was, I was flabbergasted and from then on we just sailed through."

Asked if she made "eye contact with him," she replied, 'Many times," she added, "He's an emperor without clothes. it's like looking at nothing. It was like... nothing."

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"I had been prepared for the worst force, you know, on the Earth today, the most powerful, the most effective, the most money, the richest, the most, you know —— and there he is, he's nothing," she elaborated. "It's just the people around him who give him the power; it's the emperor without clothes."

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CNN's John Avlon on Monday hammered former President Donald Trump for seemingly rooting for a terrorist attack or a stock market crash to help his 2024 bid for the White House.

While talking about some of Trump's recent Truth Social rants, Avlon took particular aim at Trump's claim that there is a "100 percent chance that there will be a major terror attack in the U.S.," which he described as "a crazy thing for the presidential candidate to say."

Attorney George Conway raised the possibility that Donald Trump is suffering from dementia, in addition to other mental disorders.

The conservative attorney told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the $83.3 million penalty imposed by a jury in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case would not stop him from slandering and slurring his enemies because he was an inveterate liar with a host of psychological problems.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss the Republican Party's inability to move on from Donald Trump to their own detriment, Washington Post journalist Jacqueline Alemany stated Republicans are conceding that the 2024 election is not going to go well for them.

As she put it, they are expecting it to be a "bloodbath."

Speaking with the hosts about Trump's interference in a possible border deal that is infuriating some GOP lawmakers, Alemany stated, "The House was pretty quiet last week as they were on recess. We're going to be getting more incoming on that this week, especially after Trump's, you know, trouncing of Nikki Haley in Iowa and then his victory in New Hampshire, where he is becoming a bigger and bigger voice that Republicans can't really ignore and are starting to be -- or will expect to be punished by Trump if they start to speak out against him and go against some of the things that he is advocating for."

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She then went on to explain that Trump's dominance of the party may hurt them going forward.

"But there are the same concerns that we saw in 2022 after the disappointing red wave, as everyone had expected, that ultimately didn't materialize," she elaborated. "Now, Speaker Johnson has essentially a two-vote majority where it's nearly impossible to get anything through, especially if Trump touches it and advises members not to vote for it."

"So I think that, you know, Republicans understand that they're headed for another potential electoral bloodbath, but it's this inevitable thing that they've sort of come to accept so long as Trump is the leader of the party," she added, "That's why you're seeing retirements; people just sort of taking a bow and these nods of resignation."

She later added, "There are concerns, but I don't see anybody doing anything about it."

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Early Monday morning, MSNBC legal analysts told the hosts of "Morning Joe" that Donald Trump is in for the scramble of his life to come up with either the on-hand cash to pay the $83.3 million he now owes E. Jean Carroll or to find a company to help him post the bond he will have to put up during his appeal.

Speaking with hosts on the first Monday after the 9-person jury slammed the ex-president for defaming Carroll by tacking on an extra $65 million in punitive damages, analyst Lisa Rubin claimed Trump is headed for some major financial difficulties.

"Let me give you the satisfying part first," she began. "Someone is going to have to post a bond in 100 percent plus of the verdict here. The bigger question is who that is."

"Many defendants in situations like this will find a company that will post a surety for them, and then you pay, as Donald Trump did, for example, in the Fulton County case, you pay a percentage of the verdict to the person who posts the bond," she elaborated. "In New York, the last time E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump, he wasn't able to secure that; he ended up putting $5.6 million in an escrow account directly with the court."

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"It'll be interesting to see if any surety is willing to put themselves out there for Donald Trump in exchange for 10 percent to 20 percent plus collateral," she stated before predicting, "My guess is he will be hard-pressed to find that person in New York than he was, for example, in Georgia when he faced that Fulton County indictment."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough placed Donald Trump's $83.3 million penalty in the E. Jean Carroll case in line with other staggering payouts by his political allies.

A jury ordered Trump to pay the penalty to Carroll for sexually abusing and then defaming her while serving as president, after a previous jury last year found him liable for both actions and awarded her $5 million for defamatory statements after he left office, and the "Morning Joe" host said courts had repeatedly imposed consequences lies aired by the ex-president and his pals.

Prior to deriding her courtroom skills, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman suggested Donald Trump might be thinking about dropping controversial attorney Alina Habba after taking a massive $83.3 million hit in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial.

Speaking with MSNBC host Alex Witt, the attorney jokingly called Habba's courtroom skills a "comedy of bumbling" because it appears she has no idea how to conduct herself in a courtroom.

Before he got to the point, he noted that Trump was "brought to heel" by the massive penalty imposed by a 9-person jury.

"He [Trump] has not publicly mentioned E. Jean Carroll since the ruling. Could he be putting himself on some sort of defamation budget?" host Witt joked.

"Yeah, I think so," Litman replied. "And I think it is significant because it shows him having been brought to heel. You saw his supporters saying, 'He doesn't take any crap. He does what he wants and gets away with it.' Here, he did what he wanted but didn't get away with it; he got socked once a little bit and now very harshly."

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"I think maybe Alina Habba, maybe in his own mind, that's a path I can't go and I've been burned very severely, we will see," he continued before adding, "But I think it will be a really encouraging sign that the legal system can actually constrain him."

Addressing Habba later, he continued, "She does seem to be perfectly chosen to be the wrong lawyer in the courtroom. She got generally mocked for not having the basic skills, which I think is true, but more than that, she tussled with the judge. she tussled with, you know, everything about the proceedings. She was Trumpian."

UAW President Shawn Fain blasted former President Donald Trump on Sunday over his poor record on supporting unions.

During an interview on Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan reported that the Teamsters reportedly met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home.

Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway brushed off Donald Trump's flubs during speeches as "clearly a typo on the teleprompter."

On Sunday's Fox News Media Buzz program, host Howard Kurtz aired clips of both Trump and President Joe Biden misspeaking.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) warned his party that it is headed for a big collapse in November because Republican voters will stay home due to Donald Trump being at the top of the ticket.

Speaking with MSNBC fill-in host Charles Coleman Jr., an exasperated Dent pointed to recent polls and GOP primary results to bolster his case.

"Since 2016 Donald Trump has made losing great again for Republicans," he joked referring to Trump's 'Make America Great Again' mantra.

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"For this very reason: his brand of politics turns off a lot of swing voters and independents. There are some Republicans still here representing districts that Joe Biden won — about seventeen or so. And Donald Trump makes victory exceedingly difficult for them in these districts as well as the swing states."

"And until Republicans figure this out, Donald Trump is creating problems for them not only with independents but I would argue with a significant amount of the Republican base," he elaborated.

"Yes, Donald Trump controls the party, he has over half the voters, he conceded, "But it depends on which polls you look at, but maybe as many as a third of Republican voters aren't going to vote for Donald Trump this time. This is catastrophic, not only for the presidential race of the GOP, but also for many down-ballot races"

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As part of a rant about the standoff at the border between Texas authorities and federal agents over razor wire being used to keep immigrants seeking asylum from entering the U.S., Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) urged Texas Republicans to ignore a Supreme Court 5-4 ruling on the matter.

Noem, reported to be on the list of possible Donald Trump running mate candidates, blew off concerns from CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash that the razor wire is leading to the needless death of innocents and instead ranted about President Joe Biden.

"You and two dozen other Republican governors wrote a letter expressing solidarity with Texas urging the state to use every tool and strategy, including razor wire fence to secure the border," host Bash prompted. "A lot of people interpreted that to mean you think Texas should defy the Supreme Court and stop federal agents from removing the razor wire. Do you think Texas should do that? Should they defy the Supreme Court?"

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"Texas should stand their ground," expressionless Noem replied. "They should enforce their state law and go back to the constitutional rights that they have been granted to protect their state's sovereignty. That's what so many of us governors are offended by. Democrats were threatening to encourage the president to activate our [national] guards in order to get them to stand down and not protect our states."

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) reacted to the verdict in the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case by doubling down on his support of former President Donald Trump.

During a Sunday interview on ABC's This Week program, host Martha Raddatz asked the surrogate if he was bothered after a jury ordered Trump to pay $83 million for defaming Carroll.