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Trump appears miffed as potential jurors trash him to his face: reporter

Donald Trump has been forced to spend three days in court, listening to multiple Americans describe what they don't like about him — and he doesn't seem happy.

On day three of jury selection in the New York hush money trial, the pool of prospective jurors got specific about their issues with Trump.

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GOP's Anna Paulina Luna confidently waltzes past CNN fact check: 'I disagree'

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) confidently waltzed right past a fact check on live television over Ukraine's desire to join the NATO alliance.

House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced down a leadership challenge from within the Republican Party by moving forward with separate funding bills for aid to Ukraine, Israel and other allies, but Luna told CNN's John Berman that she and other GOP lawmakers would continue to oppose military aid to the embattled European nation.

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Trump jurors' fears usually only seen in 'violent organized crime cases': law professor

Alabama Law School professor Joyce White Vance referred to Donald Trump's jury intimidation as outright mafia-like.

Wednesday night, Trump began posting online about jurors — just hours before one told the judge she was concerned her identity had been compromised by information published about her and was dismissed.

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'He looked less orange': Dismissed potential juror confesses being struck by Trump's color

A potential juror who confessed she couldn't be impartial left Donald Trump's trial at the New York courthouse on Thursday and spoke to MSNBC about what it was like seeing the former president in person.

"You know, he looked less orange, definitely, like, more yellowish, like yellow," she told Yasmin Vossoughian. "He looks — he doesn't look angry or — I think he looks bored. Like, he wants this to finish. And go do his stuff."

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Lara Trump downplays hush money charges as simple 'bookkeeping error'

Lara Trump downplayed the criminal charges against her father-in-law Donald Trump as a mere "bookkeeping error."

The Republican National Committee co-chair appeared Wednesday on Sean Hannity's Fox News program, where she suggested Manhattan prosecutors were engaged in election interference for trying the former president on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up alleged hush money payments to adult movie actress Stormy Daniels, reported HuffPost.

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Judge gets warning Trump jurors are being identified as second gets dismissed

Donald Trump's election interference case over his alleged hush-money scheme lost seated jurors Thursday — with one released because she feared she would be identified.

Minutes after juror number two was dismissed, saying her worries over being named meant she wasn't certain that she could be fair and impartial, a male juror stepped forward to reveal he hadn't disclosed an arrest for tearing down political posters. He too was let go.

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No 'psychologist in the world' can explain Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'lunacy': Dem lawmaker

A Florida Democrat suggested Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) needs psychiatric help after calling her out on the House floor for spreading Russian propaganda about Ukraine.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (R-FL) blasted the Georgia Republican during a debate on funding to assist Ukraine in its war against Russian invasion, saying she was parroting Vladimir Putin's conspiracy theories about Nazis and sharing his own family's history with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and he told CNN's Kate Bolduan that he couldn't explain Greene's behavior.

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'Embarrassing': Morning Joe mocks James Comer for wilting under Jamie Raskin's questions

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) unloaded on House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) over the impeachment inquiry into president Joe Biden, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ridiculed the Kentucky Republican's "embarrassing" response.

The Maryland Democrat took issue with GOP lawmakers suggesting the president had accepted bribes from China, and Raskin demanded that Comer hold an impeachment vote immediately if Republicans had any evidence that Biden had taken bribes or committed any other crimes – and the "Morning Joe" host offered up one of his favorite allusions about the inquiry.

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Prosecutors have 'key piece of evidence' to refute Trump's Melania-based defense: expert

One of Donald Trump's big defenses in the hush money criminal case is the claim that he wanted to pay women off to keep it from his wife, Melania. One legal expert said that the claim won't stand up in court because Trump was trying to wriggle out of the hush money.

Speaking on an MSNBC panel, former top Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explained that the stories about Trump will be told "in gruesome detail."

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'Oh! It's Daddy': One phone call to Ivanka revealed Trump's fears over affair reports

Donald Trump desperately wanted to know if his daughter and allies were watching CNN's Anderson Cooper interview former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal as she gave her side of the story about an alleged 15-month affair.

The tale came in a passing comment from conservative lawyer George Conway, previously married to Kellyanne Conway. The story, he explains, illustrates just how worried Trump was about the news story.

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'He's unwell': Conservative George Conway shows how to use Trump's anger against him

Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway poked fun at Donald Trump Wednesday, suggesting it was easy for the conservative attorney to trigger the former president.

"You have an interesting perspective on how thin-skinned Donald Trump is," MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace told Conway. "Your tweets drove him bat s--t crazy."

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'Never bring James Comer to a Jamie Raskin fight': Republican skewered over testy battle

Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and James Comer (R-KY) fought a battle of words in a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing Wednesday over the Republican's beleaguered efforts to impeach President Joe Biden and was almost immediately mocked.

Raskin repeatedly slammed Comer over his party's repeated accusations that Biden had accepted bribes, despite an investigation that has yet to turn up a smoking gun, demanding to know which crime Republicans believed Biden had committed and received a less than specific reply.

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GOP lawmaker attacked by ex-colleague for turning 'his back on his own principles'

Rep. Tom Massie (R-KY) revealed on Tuesday that he would join fringe lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in attempting to bring down Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Massie said that he signed on to co-sponsor Greene's motion to vacate the speaker's chair during a caucus meeting Tuesday.

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