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Donald Trump insists presidents enjoy "complete and total immunity" – even when they "cross the line" – but a legal expert said that argument won't get him far in court.

The quadruple-indicted former president compared himself to a "rogue cop" in a Thursday morning post on Truth Social, saying that Americans must simply "live with" wrongdoing by chief executives, but MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann doesn't believe any court will be persuaded by those claims.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Republican lawmakers for exposing their latest impeachment gambit as a fraud from the start.

House Republicans have already held one impeachment hearing for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over border security, but they're also threatening to reject a bipartisan Senate bill on immigration because it might help President Joe Biden.

Donald Trump has been antagonizing the federal judge overseeing his second defamation trial, but a legal expert said there's something holding him back from behaving even worse in the courtroom.

U.S. District judge Lewis Kaplan has told the former president to keep his muttered comments to himself or face removal from the courtroom, which prompted Trump to throw up his hands and say he would "love" that, and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that obnoxious behavior seemed to be strategic.

MSNBC's Mike Barnicle was left speechless by a "Morning Joe" panel discussion of Donald Trump's supporters seeing him as a messianic figure.

The Lincoln Project released a new ad warning of the phenomenon, which Trump himself has encouraged, and the panelists agreed the former president was attempting to gather dictatorial powers for himself as he seeks a second term in the White House.

A legal expert previewed the testimony E. Jean Carroll would likely give against Donald Trump as her second defamation trial opens.

The former president was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming her at the first trial last year, and those facts are not in dispute in this trial, which will focus narrowly on the comments Trump made about Carroll while serving as president.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough brutally shut down Donald Trump's moaning and groaning about being forced to travel in inclement weather from his defamation trial to campaign in New Hampshire.

The former president took an evening flight from New York City to campaign in the early Republican primary state after choosing to watch jury selection in the defamation case filed by the woman he was found liable for sexually abusing, and the "Morning Joe" host jumped all over Trump for whining that no candidate had ever been treated as badly as him.

Donald Trump cruised to an easy victory in the Iowa caucus, and MSNBC's Steve Kornacki identified a surprising shift in the polling that showed him pulling away from his Republican rivals.

The former president has become the clear frontrunner for the GOP nomination, despite four indictments on 91 felony charges, two impeachments and looming penalties after he was found liable for business fraud and defaming his sex abuse victim, and Kornacki told "Morning Joe" that those legal problems were actually a political benefit to him.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough trashed Donald Trump supporters for backing a presidential candidate that any "sane" person would reject.

The former president trounced his rivals in the Iowa caucus in spite of a tsunami of legal problems – including indictments, lawsuits and looming penalties for fraud and defaming his sex abuse victim – and the "Morning Joe" host said his persistent political success is a symptom of the "twisted" personality cult that has gathered around the former reality TV star.

Donald Trump will stand trial once again this week for defaming a woman he sexually abused, and a legal expert threw cold water on his last-minute attempt to delay the case.

The former president's attorneys filed a request Friday afternoon asking U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to push back the start date so that Trump can attend his mother-in-law's funeral. The request was denied and the trial will begin as scheduled on Tuesday.

Donald Trump is widely expected to win the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus, but possibly not by as much as his campaign team had expected.

The expected margin of victory has thinned a bit heading into Monday's Republican primary vote, and MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire noted the situation has caused some internal anxiety among Trump allies.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough marveled at polls showing that Republicans were even more likely to support Donald Trump because of his alleged crimes.

The twice-impeached former president heads into the Iowa caucuses Monday with a formidable lead, despite having been indicted on 91 counts in four jurisdictions and being found liable for both fraud and sexual abuse, and polls show GOP voters simply do not care.

Donald Trump's fraud trial has wrapped up, and a legal expert said his two adult sons are facing a moment of accountability that threatens their livelihood.

New York attorney general Letitia James has asked Judge Arthur Engoron to impose $370 million in penalties from the former president and his sons after the judge found them liable for persistent fraud at the start of the trial, and she is also seeking the cancellation of Trump's business certificates in the state and a five-year ban for Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.

A legal expert identified a "major mistake" made by the judge overseeing Donald Trump's fraud trial, and she predicted that won't be repeated by other courts.

The former president had hoped to deliver at least part of his own closing argument at the conclusion of the New York fraud trial, but Judge Arthur Engoron blocked that plan after Trump and his lawyers rejected some limits the judge would have imposed.