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Donald Trump’s apparent sleeping in court on day one of his criminal trial for alleged business fraud related to a cover-up of “hush money” election interference has critics concerned.

While initial reactions to the news largely mocked him as “Sleepy Don,” or “Drowsy Don,” political and legal experts are wondering if the 77-year old ex-president would be able to stay awake during times of crisis, when an alert president would be critical to the nation’s security.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) grew up quite a bit wealthier than she has let on since entering politics, according to a new investigative report.

The New York Republican contrasted herself against her Democratic rival in 2014 as a scrappy underdog running against a "multimillionaire," but The Daily Beast found that the Harvard graduate came from a much more comfortable background than she has let on.

Former President Donald Trump reportedly nodded off during the first day of his hush-money trial in New York on Monday, and it didn't take long for his internet critics to pounce.

According to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, Trump's head on Monday kept "dropping down" while in court, with his mouth going "slack."

As speculation continues to swirl over who Donald Trump will choose for his 2024 running mate, Independent candidate and known anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims he was approached by the Trump campaign and offered the job.

In a video posted to Truth Social last week, Trump asked Democrats to vote for Kennedy, calling him “the most radical left candidate in the race." In the same post, Trump went on to insist that Kennedy is “a better man” than his Democratic challenger, President Joe Biden.

Former President Donald Trump has in the past had multiple courtroom outbursts that have forced judges to admonish his attorneys about "controlling" their client.

However, the New York Times reported Monday that Trump's lawyers have cautioned him that his usual courtroom antics could have disastrous consequences if he acts the same way in front of a jury that is charged with deciding whether he committed criminal offenses.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski showed Donald Trump as he entered the New York courthouse on Monday for jury selection in his hush money election interference and fraud trial.

After Trump spoke inside the courthouse, the "Morning Joe" host noted he was "making a few lies there" — particularly as he repeated his claims that the case has no merit and it's a political witch hunt orchestrated by President Joe Biden.

CNN host Kaitlan Collins handed Donald Trump a backhanded and snarky compliment on Monday morning after the former president launched into a one-minute-long rant about the unfairness of his being tried in the Manhattan hush-money case.

Flanked by a phalanx of attorneys and security, the former president addressed the press and claimed he's facing a case that never should have been brought — and then tried to pin it on President Joe Biden.

Former President Donald Trump said he would testify during his criminal trial that's set to begin in New York on Monday, and CNN legal analyst Jeremy Saland said that would be a dream come true for prosecutors.

There is ample reason to doubt that Trump will really testify, of course, given that he vowed to also testify in the New York civil fraud trial before backing out of it.

A Republican party official who was a founder of her state's "Women for Trump" advocacy group is admitting she is not enthused with the former president's third bid for the Oval Office and hopes that, if he doesn't win, he will just go away.

According to a profile in the Guardian digging into Donald Trump's voter woes in the key swing state of Wisconsin, local activist Terri Burl bluntly admitted she is "not excited" by the 2024 campaign and is making a unique pitch to some "Never Trump" Republicans that Trump will go away afterward they give him just one more chance to beat President Joe Biden.

Approximately 24 hours before he is expected to begin appearing in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks to face 34 felony counts that could land him in prison, Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on Judge Juan Merchan and demanded his court date be postponed. Again.

Lawyers for the former president spent last week flooding the court docket with a flurry of filings asking for a postponement of the criminal trial that will take up his alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.

After seeing his demands for more time or dismissal of all charges fail to persuade the judge, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to complain he and his legal team still have not had enough time to prepare for the case that was filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over a year ago.

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As part of his Sunday social media post, the embattled former president, who is on a losing streak in New York courtrooms, insisted his latest trial "cannot be allowed to go forward,"

He wrote, "Judge Juan Merchan, perhaps the most highly conflicted Judge in New York State history, only gave us a short period of time to read and study hundreds of thousands of pages of documents that D.A. Alvin Bragg illegally hid, disguised, and held back from us. Of course, and as the Judge knows, we need far more time than that. They could have started this Fake Biden Trial many years ago, not right in the middle of my campaign for President, and time would not be a problem. This is a blatant and unprecedented attack on Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent (who is leading in every poll!), done in close coordination with the White House, that cannot be allowed to go forward!"