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Scott Gessler, an attorney for Donald Trump, was peppered with questions in a Colorado case that could keep the former president off the state's ballot.

During oral arguments on Wednesday, a justice for the Colorado Supreme Court asked Gessler how it was not "absurd" to claim the Constitution's framers would have allowed an insurrectionist to be president.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) complained on Wednesday that he was being blamed for House Republicans' dwindling majority after he orchestrated the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

In a special podcast, Gaetz addressed McCarthy's decision to retire from Congress after being removed as speaker of the House.

Fox News contributor Kayleigh McEnany took a shot at Donald Trump's supporters on Wednesday by suggesting white nationalists should be banned from higher education.

The former White House press secretary made the remarks during a discussion on Fox News about anti-Semitism on college campuses. McEnany pointed to Harvard University President Dr. Claudine Gay's testimony before Congress.

Right-wing MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon lashed out at Fox News host Sean Hannity after he asked former President Donald Trump if he would be a "dictator" if re-elected.

The question came during a Tuesday town hall on Fox News.

Former President Donald Trump's failure to give a straight answer to Sean Hannity on whether he would govern as an autocrat at the Fox News town hall in Iowa was an astonishing moment, said analyst Van Jones on CNN Wednesday morning — and a failure of the simplest test for an American politician imaginable.

Widespread reporting has detailed claims that Trump and his allies plan to use a second term to reshape the government in his image, create a loyalty cult out of the civil service, and send the Justice Department after Trump's political enemies.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) continued her media blitz this week by speaking to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, a previous White House aide from George W. Bush's administration. Wallace has since abandoned the Republican Party — blaming Donald Trump.

Liz Cheney's book "Oath and Honor" was released Tuesday and exposes some former colleagues as knowing full well that there was no election fraud in 2020 and that Trump lost. Others are shown by Cheney to have been too scared of Donald Trump to stand up for themselves.

Former President Donald Trump blundered massively when he suggested to Sean Hannity at his Iowa town hall that he would act as a dictator, but only on "day one" — all while refusing to clarify whether he would abuse the powers of his office when asked specifically.

That's the view of David Urban, a former strategist to Trump, who weighed in on CNN Wednesday morning.

Former President Donald Trump didn't directly answer Sean Hannity's interview question about whether he would act as a dictator and punish his political enemies if given a second term, just saying that he would do some dictatorial things on "day one" and then not after that. But according to Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), you shouldn't take any of that seriously.

Burchett's comments, to CNN's Phil Mattingly on Wednesday morning, came amid a broader discussion about Trump's second-term plans, which have set off alarm bells with political experts as he and his allies strategize how to transform the civil service into a personal army and turn the Justice Department against political rivals.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for telling "lie after lie" to minimize the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The Louisiana Republican, who led a legal effort among House Republicans to invalidate Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, has ordered the release of security video footage from the U.S. Capitol attack, but with the faces of rioters blurred out to protect them from being "retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned a Fox News audience that cheered on Donald Trump's threats to act like a dictator on "Day One" of a second presidency.

The twice-impeached former president appeared Tuesday night in a town hall broadcast on the network, where host Sean Hannity asked him leading questions to help him walk back remarks he's made during campaign rallies and push back against reports that his second administration would be authoritarian – but instead Trump said he would only do that on his first day in office.