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Judge Juan Merchan made a decision about jury instructions Tuesday afternoon that could land Manhattan prosecutors a major win in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, one legal analyst and former prosecutor argued on CNN.

Trump is facing 34 charges of falsifying business records which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg contends was done to hide hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

A debate Tuesday about jury instructions in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial saw the judge tell off one of the former president's top lawyers, according to reporters in the courthouse.

Trump's defense rested in the Manhattan trial Tuesday, despite his vow to take the stand to clear his name of the 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a contended hush money cover-up scheme.

Donald Trump did not testify Tuesday before his defense rested in the Manhattan hush money trial, despite him vowing to take the stand to clear his name of the 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money scheme that he's accused of.

One of his former lawyers suggested it could be due to exhaustion.

Donald Trump spoke out in a rambling speech Tuesday outside of the Manhattan courtroom that CNN found so objectionable it cut the rant midway through.

"As they say, there is no crime," Trump said, repeating soundbites he brought up multiple times. "It should be dismissed before you have a verdict. But they have a judge that's, let's say, complicated."

Donald Trump didn't testify at the end of his Manhattan criminal trial, despite teasing multiple times that he would do so.

When asked about this discrepancy outside the courtroom, eldest Trump son Donald Trump Jr. told MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard the prosecution was a "sham" to begin with.

The co-hosts of "The View" weren't shocked by the latest Nazi reference by the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential candidate.

On Monday, President Joe Biden's campaign called out Donald Trump for a video that shared a series of headlines about his new order.

Former FBI Director James Comey has overcome his initial skepticism about the hush money case against Donald Trump and now believes he's quite likely to be convicted.

The former president has been charged with falsifying financial records to cover up hush money payments to an adult film actress to prevent voters from learning about their sexual relationship, which prosecutors say amounts to an illegal campaign contribution, and Comey told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the evidence is much stronger than the indictment indicated.

Donald Trump casually discusses using the FBI as his secret police to punish enemies, according to a former White House aide.

Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as White House communications director in 2017 and has been an outspoken critic ever since Trump told four congresswomen of color to "go back" to their home countries two years later, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he fears the former president would seek retribution against him if he's re-elected to a second term – although he strongly believes Trump will implode.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called BS on the "double standard" that's keeping Donald Trump and his allies out of jail for violating court rules in his hush money trial.

New York Justice Juan Merchan cleared the courtroom to admonish attorney Robert Costello, who had angered the judge for making comments and facial expressions indicating his disagreement with rulings, and the "Morning Joe" host said that anyone else would have already been held in contempt and thrown in jail.

Legal and political analysts agreed that the meltdown sparked by a witness called by Donald Trump's defense team Monday could not have left a good impression with the jury.

Michael Cohen's former lawyer, Robert Costello, was brought up to testify for the defense in an effort to reveal what Cohen had told him.

High drama unfolded Monday in Donald Trump's criminal case as prosecutors asked to have a C-SPAN video admitted into evidence that they said would prove a key piece of Michael Cohen's testimony.

Cohen testified last week that he spoke to Trump's security guard, Keith Schiller, on Oct. 24 about the status of the hush money payment to actress and director Stormy Daniels and that Schiller put Trump on the line.

Criminal defense attorney Danny Cevallos said on Monday that Donald Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, has been asking questions that may be hurting his own client's defense.

During an appearance on MSNBC, Cevallos theorized about reasons why Blanche hasn't been objecting to what he says are leading questions being posed by prosecutors.

Trump supporters believe Michael Cohen dropped a bombshell on the stand that could get Donald Trump off the hook in his hush money trial — but some experts aren't so sure.

Trump stands accused of 34 felonies for creating false business records to conceal hush money spent to keep an affair quiet.