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Invited on CNN to talk about the upcoming Donald Trump trial related to paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, once known as the former president fixer suggested his former client is open to being manipulated by the Kremlin.

Speaking with host John Berman, Cohen immediately launched into a warning about the former president now that he is facing close to half a billion dollars in fines after three legal setbacks.

Noting Trump's financial loses to E. Jean Carroll in two separate trials and the massive judgement levied by Judge Arthur Engoron that could reach $450 million, Cohen suggested Trump coud be ripe to be compromised, in no small part because he is "stupid."

Asked by CNN host Berman, "What do you think that number means to him?" Cohen shot back, "That's a total, it's like the death touch to Donald. They don't have that available cash."

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"I've read in several different articles that he has a substantial sum of cash, it's not true, I would highly doubt it," he added. "He's probably looking at RNC money, he's probably looking at Super PAC money again as part of money that he would use. But no matter what happens, he does not have enough and there will have to be a liquidation of his assets in order to cover this amount because you're right, it's not $354. It's into the $550 million."

Noting Trump is in a financial position where he is open to being "compromised," Cohen added, "If you're Vladimir Putin, I'll tell you how Vladimir Putin is probably looking at Donald Trump, right now; that Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man and a stupid man's idea of a smart man."

"So as a KGB, former KGB expert, he's [Putin] looking at Donald and saying, 'What can we do in order to help to help him to get away from these various different things?'" he continued. "But you, can't fix stupid. So that is what you just take advantage of."

Donald Trump finally broke his silence on the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny at an Arctic prison but stopped well short of condemnation.

The former president compared himself to Navalny — whom Russian authorities say collapsed and died from "sudden death syndrome" — and used Navalny's death to complain about the various criminal and civil legal proceedings against him.

Donald Trump will appeal the $355 million judgment in his New York fraud trial by challenging judge Arthur Engoron definition of the crime.

New York Attorney general Letitia James sued the former president and his two adults sons, along with the Trump Organization and two top executives, seeking $370 million in penalties for habitually inflating the value of real estate to obtain more favorable loans, but one of his attorneys told Newsweek that Trump would challenge the judge who found him liable for fraud at the outset of his trial.

After spending Sunday posting screenshots of various polls showing him either leading against former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) and President Joe Biden, Donald Trump went off on a multi-post bender at midnight fuming at the results of the financial fraud trial that could cost him as much as $450 million.

On his Truth Social platform, the former president, who is now looking at paying out over a half billion dollars in two civil suits and the trial just concluded in Judge Arthur Engoron's court room, attacked New York Attorney General Letitia James and then went on to attack Haley for not bowing out of the GOP nomination race.

According to the New York Times reporter who received Donald Trump's tax returns anonymously during the 2016 presidential election, the former president has already been discreetly liquidating his real estate portfolio long before he was slammed with almost $500 million in legal fines.

Speaking with hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," investigative reporter Suzanne Craig claimed it appears the former president has been "stockpiling" cash, although it is unclear how much he has on hand.

Noting the $450 million financial fraud judgement handed down by Judge Arthur Engoron on Friday, in addition to $83 million due to E. Jean Carroll, Craig explained Trump has few options besides dipping into his own cash reserves since most banks are off-limits.

"He won't be able to go to banks and get a loan," she explained. "While he was president, and since he left office, I think a lot of people, when they think of Donald Trump's banking relationships, think of Deutsche Bank which has done so much with him. What a lot of people don't know is that in recent years, Deutsche Bank has exited the scene."

MSNBC "The Weekend" co-host Michael Steele kicked off Sunday morning by laughing at Donald Trump hawking "golden tennis shoes" at Sneaker Con less than 48 hours after he was hit with a possible $450 million fine by Judge Arthur Engoron.

Late Saturday Trump made a surprise visit to the Philadelphia event, where he was met with no small amount of boos, to promote Trump-branded sneakers with price tags up to $399.

After sharing a clip of the former president staring and then holding up a pair of shiny gold basketball shoes, host Steele got in his digs while speaking with the Wall Street Journal's Sabrina Siddiqui.

"This is what it has come to now," Steele laughed. "We are sitting here talking gold tennis shoes for the presidency. What does this say about how much the decisions, the court decisions recently have disrupted the flow of the Trump game? Yes, there was booing — that's a lot of emotion when you are booing at him."

"How are you reading the telltale signs from his campaign? There is a different feel to it after the heels of the massive decision this week," he added.

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"Look, as we know, former president Trump is on the hook for a lot of money, it could be with interest totaling about a half billion dollars. He does have a lot of bills to pay. I'm not sure that this sneaker line is going to do the trick for him."

"They are gold," Steele interjected, leading to more laughter.

"They are gold," the Journal reporter conceded while laughing and then adding, "We will see how it pans out. Look, I think the financial challenges that he is facing are having an impact on him and his campaign."

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During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner stated that as bad as Friday was for Donald Trump, in light of being fined upwards of $450 million for financial fraud in a Manhattan courtroom, things are about to get much, much worse.

Noting the millions the former president has been ordered to pay New York writer E. Jean Carroll from two different civil suits, Kirschner pointed to the Trump hush money trial in March and multiple other criminal trials in Trump's future.

"Let's start with the ruling from Justice Arthur Engoron, what are your two top line takeaways?" host Phang asked.

"Well, Katie, among the top line takeaways is, I think we have to look at the trajectory that Donald Trump's civil trials have been on," he replied. "He started by losing a $5 million judgment, then he lost an $83 million judgment. Now he's lost more than $450 million judgment and, as you say, he is barred from doing business in New York for a number of years."

"Here is the thing," he elaborated. "As bad as all of that is, Lady Justice is just getting warmed up because next up for Donald Trump is his first criminal trial, then he has four criminal trials stacked up."

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"It is impossible to see how he survives politically, how he survives financially and I think you know all of this is just Donald Trump slowly being taken out of the system for the civil fraud, the civil wrongs, and the crimes he has alleged to have committed."

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Speaking with MSNBC host Ali Velshi on Saturday morning, former Trump executive vice president Barbara Res claimed she was not surprised Donald Trump's financial antics caught up with him in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom leading to a monumental judgment that could top $450 million.

According to Res, Trump knew what he was doing when he committed financial fraud, but had been brought up to never admit when he was wrong and he is likely already trying to figure out how to cash in on the latest notorious chapter of his life.

"Last year, you said to CNN, you thought that Donald Trump was enjoying this process. Do you think he still is?" hoist Velshi asked.

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"I don't think he likes getting buffeted around and things being said about him that are so awful, such as what was in the ruling" she told the host. "But I think that he is okay with it to the extent that he can spin it. And he has already started that."

"I think it's hard, he believes, one, he's gonna get away with it. And two, he thinks that he can make money off of this somehow— get more fundraising, more people to feel sorry for him. 'Oh my god, look what they're doing to Trump. He must be president, let's give him some money.'"

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Taking time out from discussing Donald Trump's financial woes, the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" jumped all over the former president for his latest rambling attempt to explain his continuous mistaking of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

After spending the morning talking about Judge Arthur Engoron fining the former president and his Trump Organization for financial fraud that could add up to $450 million with interest added, co-host Michael Steele changed the subject back to Trump's apparent mental deterioration.

Introducing a clip of Trump at a South Carolina rally, Steele began, "If Donald Trump is about anything it is about revisionism, especially when it comes to his lack of mental acuity. I want to play for you Trump, on Wednesday, talking about the purported mix-up between Nikki Haley and Pelosi. Let's take a listen to this gem."

After the panel watched Trump tell the crowd, "When I say that Obama is the president of our country, they say, 'He doesn't know! It's Biden. He doesn't know!' So it's very hard to be sarcastic. When I interpose, cuz I am not a Nikki fan, I am not a Pelosi fan, when I purposefully interpose names they said, 'He didn't know Pelosi from Nikki! From tricky Nikki, tricky dicky. 'He didn't know,' I interposed, they make a big deal out of it," the entire panel began laughing.

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A laughing Steele added, "So, Alexi [McCammond], we're the slow ones. We should just have known, oh, — ," as co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend interrupted and added, "He's up here, we're down here."

McCammond joked, "It was sarcasm, you guys. Duh."

"This is where we find ourselves," Steele offered. "We look at things objectively here what the man says, and he comes back and tells us, 'No. that's not what you heard. This is what I heard, this is what I said, this is what I meant.'"

Now that Donald Trump has been saddled by Judge Arthur Engoron with a massive financial fraud penalty that could cost him upwards of $450 million, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin pointed out that the former president has limited options on where to turn for money.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Rubin noted that New York Attorney General Letitia James was playing the long game when she asked Engoron to place tight financial restrictions on Trump and the Trump Organization.

"About two months after Letitia James first filed her complaint, she asked for relief, saying that she had enough evidence to show even at that early stage that he [Trump] should be prevented from doing a number of things with his assets," she explained. "Those things include, after the appointment of the independent monitor, he cannot wholesale transfer or sell any of his significant assets without notice to the independent monitor, nor can he restructure or refinance his businesses either."

After noting the former president was able to service the judgment against him in the Trump University case Rubin stated that is not available to him this time due to the injunction James requested much earlier in the case.

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"He can't do that here and the reason is because this order, in addition to the preliminary injunction saying you can't refinance, you can restructure without advance notice, this sort of goes even further," she told the hosts. " It says you can't borrow money from a New York registered or chartered bank, period, for what I believe is at least a three-year period of time."

"That means in order to satisfy these judgments, Donald Trump has to, I think, rely on his own asset base," Rubin elaborated. "And, yet he has an independent monitor who's going to be on top of him every step of the way, as well as a new independent director of compliance, who's going to be scouring the books and making sure that what happens at the Trump organization is on the up and up to use a legal term."

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