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Trump team's efforts to shame Stormy Daniels 'fell flat' during 'withering attack': expert

Donald Trump's attorney attempted to shame Stormy Daniels for appearing in adult films and dancing nude, but a legal expert said those efforts likely "fell flat" with the jury.

The adult film actress testified for more than seven hours over two days about her brief sexual relationship with the former president, who is charged with falsifying business records in an effort to pay for her silence ahead of the 2016 election, and MSNBC's Lisa Rubin told "Morning Joe" that she held her own against aggressive cross examination.

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MSNBC panel slams Trump lawyers for their 'Weinstein-esque' attacks on Stormy Daniels

Donald Trump's criminal trial continued into its 14th day on Thursday, where actress and director Stormy Daniels was still on the stand.

Trump stands accused of 34 felony counts involving his falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment he allegedly gave to Daniels to hide claims of an affair.

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Prosecutors say they'll give judge brutal Trump details they purposely held back at trial

Donald Trump's lawyers demanded a mistrial in the Manhattan criminal case around the alleged hush money scheme, but it led to a threat from prosecutors.

Trump faces 34 felony counts involving the falsification of business records for an alleged effort to cover up the hush money given to adult actress and director Stormy Daniels.

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Trump ally Rick Scott may have violated gag order with attack on judge's daughter

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) flew to New York to join Donald Trump on the 14th day of the hush money trial Thursday — and took a break to attack a favorite target of the ex-president.

Trump faces more than 30 felony charges that accuse him of falsifying business records to cover up money he paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels to stay silent about an alleged affair.

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Trump attorney's dogged pursuit of Stormy Daniels is blowing up in her face: experts

Donald Trump's attorney Susan Necheles was dogged in her pursuit of Stormy Daniels on the witness stand Thursday — and experts warned her approach could backfire.

In day 14 of Trump's trial over charges that he falsified business records involving a hush money deal with Daniels in 2016, Necheles hammered Daniels on everything from discrepancies about whether they ate dinner during a tryst to what was, and wasn't, the adult movie star's signature.

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Lawyer sees confusing jurors as key to getting Trump acquitted: analysts

Stormy Daniels appeared in court again Thursday as cross-examination took a testy turn — and analysts said Donald Trump had a specific aim.

The former president's attorney, Susan Necheles, questioned Daniels and asked about repeated denials by her of an allegeged sexual relationship — which she has since gone into lurid details of in her testimony. On Tuesday, Daniels said she made the denials to comply with a non-disclosure agreement.

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Trump 'sleaze' oozing out of hush money trial won't 'impress' voters: Charlie Sykes

Voters won't be "impressed" by reminders of former President Donald Trump's "sleaze" oozing out of his New York criminal trial, according to anti-Trump conservative Charlie Sykes.

Porn actress Stormy Daniels told a jury about her sexual encounter with the former president, whose attorney then paid her off a decade later to keep her quiet before the 2016 election – when the "Access Hollywood" recording posed an existential threat to his campaign – and Sykes told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that swing voters would be repulsed by the details of Trump's personal life.

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'Holy eff!' Morning Joe nearly curses in hilarious reaction to Trump's latest cash grab

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough nearly cursed on the air upon hearing details of Donald Trump's latest Mar-a-Lago fundraiser.

The former president hosted a dinner for supporters who purchased NFT trading cards, including a series of the non-fungible tokens that came with a small swatch of the suit he was wearing during his mugshot at an Atlanta jail, and the "Morning Joe" host laughed out loud.

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Man hit with hate crimes after firing gun at gay neighbors: police

A 75-year-old Las Vegas man went after his gay neighbors with a handgun while shouting homophobic slurs, court documents allege.

The local CBS affiliate got the legal filing about the incident, which unfolded on April 25 according to records from 911.

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MSNBC host reacts with shock as she's told Georgia trial might be delayed to March: report

The Georgia Appeals Court on Wednesday agreed to hear Donald Trump's complaint against elected Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — a decision that could potentially push his trial back to March 2025.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein called it "almost impossible" to get to trial in the Fulton County election interference case by the November election.

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Ivanka shares 'cryptic' poem as Trump faces off against Stormy Daniels in court: report

Ivanka Trump shared "cryptic" poem on Instagram Tuesday as her father faced off against adult film star Stormy Daniels in his criminal hush money trial, according to a new report.

Trump's daughter shared video of musician Tom Waits reciting Charles Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart" the same day he watched Daniels testify about the one-night stand, which the adult film star said she was paid $130,000 not to speak about publicly, Newsweek reports.

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Trump exposed as a 'lame, desperate, creepy old man' by latest testimony: analyst

American voters would have been left gagging if Donald Trump's lawyer hadn't paid off adult film star Stormy Daniels in the weeks before the 2016 election, according to a legal analyst.

Daniels testified in lurid detail about a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, who she said compared her to his daughter and dangled an offer to appear on his "Apprentice" reality TV show to coerce her into sex, and former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that her testimony was crucial to prosecutors' case.

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'A 12-year-old would come up with a better ruling' than Aileen Cannon: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough walloped Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to indefinitely postpone Donald Trump's trial for mishandling classified documents.

The federal judge canceled a trial date for later this month and set a new schedule for working out legal issues related to how classified evidence will be presented to a jury, and the "Morning Joe" host blasted what he said were her shameless efforts to tip the scales of justice in favor of the former president who appointed her.

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