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State trying to 'psychologically torture' Trump in 'depressing' courthouse: MAGA senators

Donald Trump is on trial for 34 felony counts in Manhattan, and his allies spent early Monday afternoon standing outside the courtroom and defending him by attacking the judge and his daughter, the jury pool, the state of the courtroom and how "boring" the trial is.

Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) stood behind Trump as he spoke to the press on Monday morning ahead of Michael Cohen's testimony.

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'Nonsense!' George Conway hits back as Trump lawyer gives CNN hush money 'talking points'

George Conway knocked down the "talking points" of a Donald Trump lawyer who appeared on CNN Monday to defend the former president against criminal charges in the New York hush money case.

Trump lawyer Will Scharf, who is not involved himself in the trial, claimed that prosecutors were using "smoke and mirrors" to charge the former president, saying the trial would almost certainly end with an acquittal.

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Watch: Michael Cohen lawyer spars with ex-Trump attorney over legality of hush money

Michael Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, and a former Donald Trump attorney got into it on CNN Monday morning while the former Trump "fixer" was on the stand.

Tim Parlatore, who briefly worked for Trump during the classified documents case, claimed that there is no real proof of anything in the case other than Cohen's word against Trump's. The only testimony they'll be able to rely on is from those saying Trump is a micromanager.

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Expert predicts how prosecutors will use Michael Cohen to throw off Trump lawyers

Michael Cohen will take the stand Monday in Donald Trump's hush money trial, and a legal expert predicted his testimony would be briefer than defense attorneys might expect.

The former president's longtime fixer will walk jurors through the scheme he and Trump concocted to ensure adult film actress Stormy Daniels would remain quiet before the 2016 election about her sexual relationship with the Republican nominee, but legal analyst Danny Cevallos told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he expected Cohen would not remain on the stand very long.

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'Let me complete the sentence': Michael Cohen's lawyer pushes back on credibility issues

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is expected to testify in his hush money trial, and his legal adviser explained how he would counter the former president's attacks on his credibility.

Cohen pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who testified last week, and his legal adviser Lanny Davis pushed back on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" after legal analyst Lisa Rubin questioned his credibility as a witness.

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MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace bursts into giggles over Trump's clumsy denials of alleged affair

Donald Trump's excuses around the hush money case aren't adding up in the minds of the panelists on MSNBC Friday.

Trump stands accused of 34 felony charges about falsifying business records to cover up an alleged affair. He continues to maintain there was no affair and that he did nothing wrong.

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Trump loyalist Rick Scott refuses to answer if he thinks ex-president is lying: reporter

Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott flew to Manhattan with Donald Trump on Thursday to attend his criminal proceedings and speak out in support. But when it came time for Scott to reveal where he stands, there were no answers.

Trump is charged with 34 felonies involving the falsification of business records around a hush money payment to conceal an alleged affair. Trump maintains his innocence and claims he never had the affair.

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'His mojo back': Legal analyst says Trump now acting like trial 'going in his favor'

Donald Trump's mood has significantly increased since adult movie actress and director Stormy Daniels was on the stand, a legal expert shared Friday.

On Tuesday and Thursday of this week, Daniels testified in Trump's Manhattan criminal trial, where the ex-president faces 34 felony counts accusing him of falsifying business records around a hush-money scheme to keep quiet a sexual relationship he had with her.

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Ex-Trump lawyer buried by female CNN hosts as he tries to shame 'untoward' Stormy Daniels

Donald Trump's former attorney William Brennan flipped out on live television over Stormy Daniels' recent testimony in the former president's criminal hush money trial.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to adult movie star Daniels, who testified Tuesday and Thursday about a one-night stand she says they shared.

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'Give me a break!' CNN's Acosta whacks Trump for still trying to deny Stormy Daniels tryst

Stormy Daniels told a jury about the sexual encounter that Donald Trump tried to hide from voters in 2016, and a political analyst scoffed at the idea that her testimony would help him attract new supporters for his re-election.

The former president has been charged with falsifying business records to cover up that affair as part of a scheme to violate election law, and Daniels provided salacious details about the extramarital affair about which she had been paid by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to keep quiet.

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A 25-year-old Trump boast just came back to haunt him in court

Prosecutors in Donald Trump's hush money trial want to admit an interview from 25 years ago where his typical bragging may come back to bite him.

The old interview with Larry King shows Trump talking about campaign finance law.

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Prosecutors' attempt to link witness to Trump defense team falls flat: CNN analyst

Donald Trump's operations director, Madeleine Westerhout, said under oath on Friday that she had met with the former president's legal defense team -- but CNN legal analyst Elie Honig doesn't think it's a very big deal.

Trump is on trial for 34 felony counts about whether he falsified business records to conceal a hush money payment he gave to actress and director Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an affair.

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'Wow! Wow! Wow!' Morning Joe panel stunned by 'disorienting' speed of Trump trial

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" marveled at the "disorienting" speed of the prosecution's case in Donald Trump's hush money trial, and legal experts agreed that put the defense team at a disadvantage.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels testified for more than seven hours about the 2006 sexual encounter at the center of the case, and prosecutors have brought a series of former Trump aides and employees to tell jurors about his micromanagement and penchant for pinching pennies, and his former attorney Michael Cohen will soon take the stand to tie together all that evidence into a narrative.

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