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'Weak and desperate' Trump 'holed up in Mar-a-Lago' as Biden sharpens knives: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Donald Trump as "weak and desperate" for bragging about winning trophies at his own golf course and comparing himself to Jesus Christ.

President Joe Biden has been taking the fight to his challenger after Trump apparently locked down the Republican nomination, and the "Morning Joe" host said the ex-president had been unable to find his footing against more aggressive campaigning as his own operation is dogged by money issues and his own myriad legal problems.

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Judge 'beyond irritated' by Trump's latest attempt to delay trial: expert

Donald Trump and his lawyers annoyed the judge overseeing his hush money case involving Stormy Daniels, according to a legal expert who attended a pretrial hearing.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin told "Morning Joe" that the judge saw through their attempts to delay the trial and refused to budge on setting a new trial date for April 15, finding that the former president's legal team had been given more than enough time to review evidence recently provided by the Department of Justice to both prosecutors and the defense.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene reduced to 'raging against reality': GOP strategist

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took aim at House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and threatened to strip his power, and a veteran Republican congressional staffer said the Georgia Republican lacked a coherent strategy and would only cause more chaos.

Greene made a motion to vacate Johnson last Friday, but she lacks much support from other Republicans and there's no obvious choice to replace him, and GOP political strategist Brendan Buck told MSNBC's "Way Too Early" that she may have bitten off more than she can chew.

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Morning Joe stunned by depths of Trump campaign cash problems: 'They didn't have money?'

Donald Trump is having the same money troubles heading into the 2024 election that some of his allies believe cost him re-election four years ago.

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire stunned "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough with a revelation about the depths of his fundraising issues, with that cash crunch forcing the cancellation of a campaign rally and keeping the former president holed up at Mar-a-Lago as president Joe Biden steps up his attacks.

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CNN pulls plug on Trump speech as he spews a 'plethora of falsehoods'

CNN cut off live coverage of Donald Trump's public remarks at one of his Manhattan real estate properties, claiming that most of what he was saying was untrue.

The former president spoke at 40 Wall Street after appearing in court in the Stormy Daniels hush money case and following an appeals court ruling that dramatically reduced the bond he must post to avoid forfeiting some of his real estate holdings as a penalty in his fraud trial.

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'Humorous': Trump's biographer says ex-president's new plan to play the victim won't work

Donald Trump has until Monday to figure out his money woes after being issued a hefty fine for fraud in New York. Some have compared it to a game of chicken, with New York Attorney General Letitia James on one side and Trump's real estate empire on the other.

"I think we should get kind of clear on the various time frames here, because it's not like he can just push a bankruptcy button," said Trump biographer Tim O'Brien. "Or you just sell some assets. If there's an extension of the time frame, if the appellate court intervenes beyond the petitions. I imagine that Tish James is ready to do this at dawn on Monday morning if she needs to.

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'Fire sale' value of Trump properties revealed by CNN analyst

Donald Trump suggested he may be forced into a "fire sale" of his business empire as he struggles to come up with a $454 million bond due on Monday after his fraud conviction — and an expert looked into how much cash that could bring in.

CNN's investigative reporter Jonathan Greenberg, who has covered Trump's properties and wealth for years, reported that his calculations show the ex-president would be forced to sell seven of his properties at fire sale prices if he was to raise the cash he needs.

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Stormy Daniels tells 'The View' MAGA ‘suicide bombers’ text her threats from own phones

Stormy Daniels told "The View" on Thursday supporters of Donald Trump's are becoming more violent and threatening as his hush money trial nears.

"It's the weirdest thing to be in this situation where time is kind of not real, and the sad part about it, or the tricky part, is that I had started to do really well. Things had gotten quiet," she said about her life.

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Alvin Bragg hits back at Trump's demand to dismiss hush money trial

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hit back Thursday at attempts by Donald Trump to dismiss his trial in the hush money case.

Trump had won a delay after the Southern District of New York unexpectedly released a massive dump of documents related to the case, pushing the start back from March 25 to April 15.

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'Authoritarianism is bad for business': Morning Joe panel warns wealthy Trump donors

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and his guests issued a chilling warning to wealthy Americans who support Donald Trump's return to the White House.

Billionaire megadonors, who had abandoned the former president after the Jan. 6 insurrection, have returned to the fold now that he has seemingly locked down the Republican Party nomination, but panelists on "Morning Joe" said they're wrong to think they're immune from the threats Trump poses to democracy and the constitutional order.

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'They made a mistake': Morning Joe pinpoints GOP's biggest Biden impeachment blunder

The House Republican impeachment inquiry into president Joe Biden fell flat once again in a hearing that wasn't even carried live on Fox News, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough identified the major mistake GOP lawmakers made.

Democrats undercut the credibility of another GOP witness with troubling ties to Russia, while former Rudy Giuliani associate and convicted fraudster Lev Parnas testified that the allegations that formed the basis of the inquiry were manufactured by Russian intelligence officials, and the "Morning Joe" host said Republicans should have let the case play out as a whisper campaign instead of subjecting the evidence to real scrutiny.

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Expert rips Cannon's 'mind-boggling' rulings: 'If it were law school she'd be failing'

Judge Aileen Cannon has drawn widespread criticism for her handling of Donald Trump's classified documents case, and one legal expert said she's failing basic questions of law.

The U.S. District Court judge ordered Trump's attorneys and special counsel Jack Smith's team to submit proposed jury instructions that "engage" in two scenarios, each of which misstates the law and facts of the case, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and a former prosecutor who appeared on "Morning Joe" castigated Cannon's oversight of the criminal matter.

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'It doesn’t make any sense': Ex-DOJ prosecutor doubts Trump's latest financial claims

Andrew Weissmann, the former senior prosecutor on Robert Mueller's special counsel team, questioned the validity of Donald Trump's claim that he's broke.

Filling in for Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, MSNBC host Alicia Menendez said that something doesn't quite add up in Trump's latest claim that over 30 companies wouldn't bond him. Attorney General Letitia James questions whether the refusals are actual people saying they wouldn't bond him or if Trump simply wasn't open to the terms outlined.

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