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Judge Juan Merchan made a decision about jury instructions Tuesday afternoon that could land Manhattan prosecutors a major win in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, one legal analyst and former prosecutor argued on CNN.

Trump is facing 34 charges of falsifying business records which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg contends was done to hide hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

A debate Tuesday about jury instructions in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial saw the judge tell off one of the former president's top lawyers, according to reporters in the courthouse.

Trump's defense rested in the Manhattan trial Tuesday, despite his vow to take the stand to clear his name of the 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a contended hush money cover-up scheme.

Donald Trump spoke out in a rambling speech Tuesday outside of the Manhattan courtroom that CNN found so objectionable it cut the rant midway through.

"As they say, there is no crime," Trump said, repeating soundbites he brought up multiple times. "It should be dismissed before you have a verdict. But they have a judge that's, let's say, complicated."

Donald Trump didn't testify at the end of his Manhattan criminal trial, despite teasing multiple times that he would do so.

When asked about this discrepancy outside the courtroom, eldest Trump son Donald Trump Jr. told MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard the prosecution was a "sham" to begin with.

The co-hosts of "The View" weren't shocked by the latest Nazi reference by the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential candidate.

On Monday, President Joe Biden's campaign called out Donald Trump for a video that shared a series of headlines about his new order.

On April 12th, former President Donald Trump said that he'd testify in his trial about a hush money payment to a porn star.

“I’m testifying. I tell the truth,” Trump said, standing outside at his Mar-a-Lago club. “I mean, all I can do is tell the truth. And the truth is that there’s no case. They have no case.”

Former Michael Cohen lawyer Lanny Davis revealed some new details about lawyer Robert Costello, whom Cohen was at one point considering retaining as an attorney.

The Trump hush money trial ended abruptly on Monday after Costello, a defense witness, angered the judge with his behavior. Tuesday didn't start off much better, as Costello was confronted by prosecutors who grilled him over past emails where he seemed to be attempting to manipulate Cohen and to get him to not flip against his one-time boss, who currently stands accused of falsifying business records while attempting to conceal a hush money payment for an alleged affair. He has pleaded not guilty.

The newly released transcript in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial reveals a dramatic moment that stunned legal experts who examined the document Monday night.

A CNN panel that included former federal attorney Elie Honig and Obama Administration "Ethics Czar" Norm Eisen unpacked the "extraordinary moment" when Merchan lectured attorney and Trump defense witness Robert Costello on courtroom decorum.

Former President Donald Trump faced condemnation Monday after sharing a video in support of his reelection campaign in which appear the words "Unified Reich."

President Joe Biden's campaign shared posted Monday night a screen shot of the video that appears to be a Truth Social post from Trump.

Former President Donald Trump has been pushing a demand that President Joe Biden submit to a drug test right before their upcoming debate — based on an evidence-free conspiracy theory that Biden is somehow getting pumped up to maintain his alertness when at public speaking events.

On the far-right Newsmax network in conversation with Eric Bolling, the former president's daughter-in-law Lara Trump, who now holds a senior position at the Republican National Committee, echoed this demand.

Former President Donald Trump's witness at his Manhattan criminal trial raised a massive stir after his conduct forced Judge Juan Merchan to clear the courtroom — but that's not all that happened.

Merchan further threatened that he would remove Robert Costello from the witness stand if there were any further breaches of decorum in the courtroom, according to court transcripts obtained by Lawfare's Anna Bower.

Michael Cohen's credibility with the hush money trial jury is in the pits after a chaotic day in Manhattan criminal court, according to former President Donald Trump's ex-lawyer.

William Brennan appeared Monday on CNN's "The Situation Room" to discuss the conclusion of Cohen's cross examination at the hands of Trump's lead attorney Todd Blanche.