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Former Donald Trump biographer David Cay Johnston attacked the former president as nothing more than a teenage boy who, despite his claims, would not be willing to go to prison.

Trump is accused of falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment designed to keep details of an alleged sexual relationship with adult film star Stormy Daniels under wraps.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels testified in Donald Trump's criminal trial on Tuesday about her brief encounter and the hush money scheme that followed years later — and the ex-president's lawyers argued the details were so salacious they should never have gone before a jury.

Trump is on trial in Manhattan for falsifying business records to conceal the funds he sent to Daniels from the public at a time he was running for president.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee held a Tuesday briefing discussing the increase in antisemitic attacks on Americans on college campuses — and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) used it as the moment to promote the fringe conspiracy of the "Great Replacement Theory."

According to an excerpt of the transcript posted by The Forward's political reporter, Jacob N. Kornbluh, the meeting was held behind closed doors.

Stormy Daniels went into great detail about her two-hour meeting with Donald Trump while she testified in his criminal trial Tuesday — and one expert thinks it might have been too much.

Trump stands accused of falsifying business records to prevent the public from learning about a sexual encounter with Daniels at a time he was courting evangelical Christian voters to his 2016 campaign. Trump has denied that they had sexual relations and, at one point, went so far as to claim he didn't even know the adult movie star.

Donald Trump has denied that he ever had an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels. He even went so far as to say he's never met her and attacked her as a "horse face."

But as she testified on Tuesday, the details reveal the opposite.

A family from Brazil was visiting Bartlesville, Oklahoma, when their hotel was hit by a tornado, and they had no idea what the loud sirens meant.

The family told Tulsa's Fox23 they were only in Oklahoma a few days, and this was their first night in the United States. The roof of their Hampton Inn hotel was torn off and thrown across the parking lot, the anchor said in the report.

The son of a key witness in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial Monday once compared teaching the former president to tweet to recreating dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park."

“The moment I found out Trump could tweet himself was comparable to the moment in ‘Jurassic Park’ when Dr. Grant realized that velociraptors could open doors,” Justin McConney once told Politico. “I was like, ‘Oh no.’”

Former President Donald Trump took a swipe at Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) for his physical appearance, saying that he "looks pregnant to me" at a private fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago country club over the weekend, according to Politico.

“Have you ever seen this guy? He doesn’t look like a fat guy, except that his stomach is out,” Trump said at the event, which was reportedly also attended by Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX).

Former President Donald Trump's legal team delivered an "atrocious" defense in the most recent day in his Manhattan criminal hush money trial, former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal told MSNBC's Ari Melber.

The day featured testimony from Jeff McConney, the corporate controller of the Trump Organization, who recounted his role in reimbursing Trump's former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen for the alleged hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, which prosecutors say was fraudulently concealed from regulators — and Trump seemed to think it went well, making a "fist pump" gesture that was captured in the courtroom sketches, but Katyal made very clear it did not go well for him at all.

Rep. Matt Gaetz Monday claimed no human being has ever accused him of wrongdoing and faced almost immediate mockery on social media.

Gaetz was responding to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's claim that the Florida Republican had him removed to stymie an House Ethics Committee probe into allegations Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old girl.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) wanted to tell the puppy murder story in a previous book — and her publishing team had to stop her, according to a new report.

According to Politico, her first book's draft also discussed the story. "Then, as now, Noem wanted the story in because it showed a decisive person who was unwilling to be bound by namby-pamby niceties, while others on the team — which included agents, editors and publicists at Hachette Book Group’s prestige Twelve imprint, and a ghostwriter — saw it as a bad-taste anecdote that would hurt her brand. The tale was ultimately cut, according to two people involved with the project."

Rep. Matt Gaetz bemoaned his plight as the "most investigated man in Congress" Monday in response to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy's blaming the Florida Republican, and the ethics probe into allegations Gaetz had sex with a minor, for his ouster.

Gaetz discussed McCarthy's recent claim with Jake Tapper on CNN Monday afternoon, about a month after McCarthy claimed Gaetz led the charge to remove him to stop a since-revived investigation into allegations, which he denies, that he slept with a 17-year-old he was reportedly seen with at a cocaine-fueled party.

Former President Donald Trump came up with a new complaint Monday about his Manhattan criminal hush money trial: it's taking too long.

"Oh, we just heard two to three more weeks," Trump told reporters outside the courthouse. "I thought they were finished today, and they are finished today if you look at what's happening. I thought they were going to be finished today, and they want two to three more weeks, the judge asked them, and playing right into the judge's hands. The judge is so happy about two to three more weeks, because they all want to keep me off the campaign trail."