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Donald Trump tested the boundaries of a gag order imposed by a New York judge ahead of his hush money trial, and George Conway said he doesn't think the former president can avoid jail.

The ex-president falsely claimed that judge Juan Merchan's daughter posted a photo on social media showing Trump behind bars, although that account was fake and not linked to her, and Conway told "Morning Joe" that Trump could not help himself from violating rules imposed on him.

Polls are showing president Joe Biden in a weaker position than he was at the start of the 2020 general election, and MSNBC's Claire McCaskill warned that Donald Trump would exploit those findings to stoke violence and chaos.

Biden consistently led Trump in national and swing states at this point four years ago, and while Democrats are confident the ex-president's criminal cases and legal bills will sap some of his strength by November, McCaskill told "Morning Joe" that she doesn't believe the polling tells the whole story.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Donald Trump is reportedly considering convicted felon Paul Manafort for a role in his 2024 campaign, despite his fraud convictions and questionable foreign entanglements.

The former president has discussed a fundraising role for Manafort, whom he pardoned in his final weeks in office along with Roger Stone and Jared Kushner's father, and former White House director of communications Jen Palmieri told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the timing of his return was highly suspicious.

President Joe Biden has faced small but persistent opposition in Democratic primaries so far, with about one in 10 Democratic voters choosing "uncommitted" in states where that's an option, but MSNBC's Claire McCaskill tried to soothe concerns about his strength heading into the general election.

The average Biden protest vote, whether voters are choosing "uncommitted" or picking long-shot candidates, has been about 13 percent so far, but the former Missouri senator told "Morning Joe" that incumbent presidents often face opposition from fatigued voters in primaries who turn out for them in November.

Donald Trump is moving closer to having his properties seized if he's unable to pay a $464 million fraud judgment or secure the same amount for a bond required to appeal, according to a legal expert.

The former president says he approached 30 insurers but found none of them willing to post the bond, and some of his friendly right-wing media commentators have noticed that no wealthy Republicans have stepped forward to offer their assistance either, and MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann told "Morning Joe" that seems to be a sign that Trump's business empire was more "fragile" than it appears.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was gobsmacked by federal judge Aileen Cannon's latest order in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

The U.S. District Court judge ordered Donald Trump's attorneys and special counsel Jack Smith's team to submit jury instructions ahead of a trial, but the "Morning Joe" host agreed with legal experts who say the two-page order compels them to engage in an irrelevant application of the Presidential Records Act instead of the Espionage Act, which is the law he's charged with breaking.