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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Friday ramped up his attacks on former President Donald Trump amid revelations that foreign officials from countries such as China and Saudi Arabia spent lavishly at his properties while he was president.

While speaking outside the United States Capitol building, Raskin reiterated the importance of the so-called emoluments clause of the United States Constitution that prevents the president from receiving foreign payments during his term in office.

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, struggling to retain his number-two ranking in the 2024 GOP presidential primary race, framed supporters of same-sex marriage as a threat to America's religious institutions, and to the sacraments of Christian churches.

"You have previously said that the definition of marriage is exclusively between a man and a woman. I'm curious, is that still how you feel today?" CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked Gov. DeSantis at the network's town hall in Iowa Thursday night.

Invited on CNN to discuss the bombshell report on Donald Trump and his family taking in millions from foreign governments while the former president was still in office, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) dropped the hammer on Eric Trump for trying to blow off concerns about the cash grab.

Speaking with CNN host John Berman, Raskin highlighted findings in the report that he co-authored with Democratic colleagues on the House Oversight Committee before being asked about Eric Trump's pushback.

On the day before the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that sent lawmakers fleeing for their lives from supporters of ex-president Donald Trump, CNN's hosts took GOP lawmakers to task for diminishing the events of the day.

In particular, host Phil Mattingly busted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for turning tail on his own remarks right after the far-right insurrection that sought to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's win.

The brother of Brian Sicknick, the late United States Capitol Police officer who suffered from a fatal stroke the day after battling Trump-supporting rioters, had some choice words for the former president this week.

In an interview with CBS Mornings, Craig Sicknick expressed disgust after being played a clip of former President Donald Trump musing about pardoning the people who violently stormed the Capitol on his behalf, even going so far as to call them "hostages" instead of prisoners.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on the day before the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, one of the Capitol cops who was brutally attacked on that day showed no mercy for his assailants when asked about that day.

With host Willie Geist prompting him to react to Trump labeling them as "hostages in a speech recently," Aquilino Gonell pounced on the opportunity.

"These are the people who say they are pro-law enforcement and in support of police," he began. "I was assaulted by more than 40 people on January 6th. You know, it's recorded. It's on video. It is on pictures. Those are the ones that I mainly go to the courts to give my statement and also to testify."

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"Just right before Christmas, one guy who -- one writer who assaulted me, injured my hand, he tried to -- he tried to tell the judge he didn't assault me when it was clearly on video," he recalled. "These are violent people. Whether they were violent before January 6th, I don't care. Whether they were good people or not, they did it on January 6th; They were showing me who they were."

"That's the reason why I go to the court, to hold them accountable," he continued. "Whenever they get in front of the judge and claim — ask for leniency because they have a family, because they have a kid, because they're too old, because they're too frail, because they have PTSD, because they are former members of the military, a veteran like myself, well, they should have thought about those things before they committed those crimes before they assaulted me and my colleagues."

"I took the same oath that they did, and, yet, that did not make me remove myself from doing my duty and my job on January 6th," he added.

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CNN host Phil Mattingly found himself stunned after watching a video of Trump lawyer Alina Habba publicly pressuring Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to side with her client during a Fox News appearance.

During an interview on Fox News Thursday, Habba suggested Kavauagh would "step up" for former President Donald Trump given how Trump stuck with him even while he faced allegations of past sexual misconduct.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley tried to make amends for her slavery gaffe — and seemed to step on yet another rake in the process.

At a CNN town hall in Iowa Thursday night, Haley made an effort to walk back last week’s failure to list slavery as the cause of the Civil War.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) painted a devastating portrait of Donald Trump and his family taking what he called "bribes" for foreign governments which led to the bombshell report from House Oversight Democrats released on Thursday.

Speaking with host Mika Brzezinski, Garcia said the $7.8 million in foreign payments uncovered is just the tip of the iceberg and added further investigation is needed because Democrats have the "receipts" proving criminal activity.

Noting the report only details two years' worth of proceeds taken in by the Trumps from only four properties, Gracia suggested the amount of "grift" could be astronomical.

"This is an enormous grift, this is a violation of the Constitution, this is about foreign payments and bribes to the president of the U.S. from multiple foreign governments and countries," the lawmaker explained. "I also just want to note because it's important, what we have in front of us is really the tip of the iceberg. The nearly $8 million that we're discussing is essentially not only a two-year window, it is only from four properties owned by Donald Trump. Donald Trump has hundreds, hundreds of properties and businesses around the world. We were very limited to what we could actually look at."

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Trump's $7.8 million money grab makes him constitutionally "compromised," according to one legal expert.

The influx of foreign dough that former President Donald Trump raked in during his single term in office has former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade making it clear that Trump should be disqualified from serving.