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George Conway confidently predicted Donald Trump would quickly lose his immunity battle and stand trial as scheduled in his Washington, D.C., election subversion case.

The former president's attorney argued Tuesday that he should be broadly immune from criminal prosecution because he had not been convicted in his impeachment trial by the Senate following the Jan. 6 insurrection, but Conway told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the three-judge appeals court panel might already have decided to deny that claim.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough burst into laughter at Donald Trump's claim that he would deliver his own closing argument in his New York fraud trial.

The former president vowed to speak up for himself in the $370 million civil fraud trial later this week, days after his attorneys argued before a Washington, D.C., appeals court that he should be broadly immune from criminal prosecution, and the "Morning Joe" host could barely deliver that news without laughing.

Donald Trump's lawyers "painted themselves into a corner" by staking an absolute position on presidential immunity, according to a legal expert.

The former president's attorney, John Sauer, argued Tuesday before a seemingly skeptical three-judge appeals court panel that the Constitution does not allow for criminal prosecutions of chief executives unless they have been both impeached and convicted by Congress, but legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" why that was a mistake.

Donald Trump filed three new motions seeking to wriggle out of criminal prosecution in Georgia, but a legal expert called his arguments "laughable" and predicted they would "quickly" fail.

The former president's lawyers asked a judge to dismiss the charges because, they argued, he was acting within the scope of his official duties when he pressured state officials to overturn his 2020 election loss, and they also argued that Trump didn't know he was breaking the law, and the third motion cites double jeopardy based on his second impeachment.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough went off on Donald Trump for wishing out loud that the U.S. economy would crash in the next 12 months to help his re-election campaign.

The former president credited his own administration for the job market's strength but also claimed the economy was "fragile," saying that a "crash" was inevitable but hoping that it happened before he might potentially be re-elected so he would escape blame, and the "Morning Joe" host added that to the pile of evidence that should disqualify Trump from holding elected office.

Donald Trump blamed the Civil War on Abraham Lincoln in a campaign speech over the weekend, but conservative Charlie Sykes said his sourcing was implausible.

The ex-president spoke to supporters in Iowa, where he claimed Lincoln should have "negotiated" an end to slavery to avoid bloodshed, and Sykes told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that was one more example of Trump's right-wing extremism.

Donald Trump has been leaning into the crimes that he's been charged with committing, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough concluded that his supporters actually approve of him breaking the law.

The twice-impeached former president has been indicted four times on 91 counts, found liable for fraud and sexual assault, and disqualified from two states' ballots for violating the Constitution's insurrectionist clause, but his lawyers insist Trump should be immune from prosecution and called for special counsel Jack Smith to be held in contempt for working on the case before that appeal is decided.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned Donald Trump's latest remarks about the Civil War and bashed conservatives who continue to run cover for his outrageous statements and behavior.

The twice-impeached former president, who has been disqualified from the ballot in two states under the Constitution's insurrectionist clause, suggested in a campaign speech over the weekend that Abraham Lincoln should have negotiated an eventual end to slavery to avert bloodshed, and the "Morning Joe" host was appalled.

Donald Trump's legal team has been attempting to stall various legal proceedings against him, but an expert said the former president would be wise to allow one of them to proceed.

The ex-president has been indicted four times on 91 counts and found liable for both fraud and sexual abuse, although his lawyers are working to push trial dates in those criminal cases past the 2024 election. But MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos told "Morning Joe" that Trump would be smart to go ahead and face trial in Manhattan.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough flatly rejected conservative arguments against the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that disqualified Donald Trump from holding political office.

Former attorney general Bill Barr claimed the ruling would help Trump politically, and many others have argued that his political fate should be decided at the ballot box, but the "Morning Joe" host laughed off claims that the decision was anti-democratic.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Donald Trump is lucky he's not sitting in jail with his insurrectionist supporters instead of stewing over his removal from the Colorado presidential ballot.

The Colorado Supreme Court disqualified the former president from holding political office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment due to his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection, and the "Morning Joe" host said Trump deserved to be imprisoned along with those who followed his lead and stormed the U.S. Capitol to overturn his election loss.

A former judge on Wednesday praised the decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify Donald Trump from holding political office.

Michael Luttig, a conservative former appeals court judge, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the state's court had correctly decided the issue on its constitutional merits, and he said the U.S. Supreme Court should affirm the ruling based on the evidence against the former president.

George Conway had been skeptical of the legal theory that Donald Trump should be disqualified from office, but he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he was persuaded after reading "trivial and weak" dissents in a Colorado Supreme Court ruling striking him from the state's ballot.

The court overturned a district court judge's ruling that found the former president had incited an insurrection Jan. 6, 2021, but said it wasn't clear whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was intended to cover the presidency, and Conway said he was "completely sold" on the theory by the dissents.