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Donald Trump dozed off in his hush money trial again on Tuesday at a crucial part of the hearing, MSNBC reporters said.

Lawyer Keith Davidson took the stand to talk about his previous representation of adult film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy playmate Karen McDougal — two people central to the case. Davidson was involved in the deal to sell their stories about sexual relationships with Trump to the National Enquirer.

Donny Deutsch believes former President Donald Trump's criminal trial is having a surprising effect, considering it involves accusations that he paid hush money to an adult film star.

"Anybody who thinks this is making him empathetic or rallying his troops, no," Deutsch said during a Monday appearance on MSNBC. "He's sitting there neutered, powerless. For the first time in his life and he can't do and say what he wants."

Former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner warned that if Judge Juan Merchan decides Donald Trump violated his gag order, it could have knock-on consequences in all of his criminal cases.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, Kirschner said the conditions of Trump's bail in every indictment he faces are that he will not commit any other crimes.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was indulging in Donald Trump's "fetish" for brutality by confessing to gunning down her family's puppy for misbehavior, according to anti-Trump conservative Charlie Sykes.

The Republican governor who has been considered a frontrunner to become the former president's running mate, and both Sykes and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough agreed Noem was pitching herself to Trump by revealing that she had fatally shot the 14-month-old pup for ruining a pheasant hunt and killing a neighbor's chickens.

The first witness in Donald Trump's hush money trial has already established a key component of the case that's necessary to convict the former president, according to a legal expert.

David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, told the jury that he sought out damaging stories about his friend ahead of the 2016 election and paid to keep them from publication, and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin told "Morning Joe" that he had helped prosecutors demonstrate that Trump knew about the scheme and intended for it to help his campaign.

Former President Donald Trump's former assistant Rhona Graff took the stand Friday in his criminal fraud trial to testify about her role as "keeper of the keys," according to experts watching the trial.

Trump biographer Tim O'Brien discussed Graff's testimony on MSNBC Friday, saying the information she had to give involved many documents for the company.

Michael Fanone, a retired Washington, D.C. police officer who suffered life-threatening injuries during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, condemned Donald Trump Friday for celebrating the rioters as he seeks a second term in office.

The cop appeared Friday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss the former president's claim of absolute immunity that's under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. He blasted the arguments from Trump's attorney and questions asked by the conservative justices as infuriating.

Though the U.S. Supreme Court appears likely to reject Donald Trump's claim of absolute immunity, several onlookers expect it to make a move that will greatly delay Jack Smith's election interference case against the ex-president.

But a legal expert says the special counsel still has "one trick up his sleeve" to skip past any further trial delay conservative justices might grant.

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker shared the information that elevates Donald Trump's criminal charges from misdemeanors to felonies on Thursday, ex -Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann revealed.

Speaking to MSNBC after Pecker broke from testifying, Weissmann noted that violation of campaign finance laws elevates the falsification of business records charges from misdemeanors to felonies.

Donald Trump's lawyer, John Sauer, struggled to explain his argument before the Supreme Court on Thursday — and one justice came close to losing her patience.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson debated with Trump's lawyer over the claim of absolute immunity for presidents for "official actions." But, when Sauer divided presidential actions and non-presidential, it prompted more questions from the justices.