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The chances are "slim to none" that former President Donald Trump can convince the judge overseeing his $83.3 defamation case that he doesn't plan "to stiff" E. Jean Carroll, a former federal prosecutor has said.

Andrew Weissmann made Lawrence O'Donnell burst into laughter on air Monday night as the pair discussed Trump's efforts to stay the ruling in Carroll's successful federal lawsuit, recently concluded in New York City.

Former President Donald Trump held a streaming event on Monday to prepare for the Super Tuesday primaries the following day, where a huge number of delegates are set to be awarded and the Republican primary could effectively wrap up.

And as Trump spoke, the Biden HQ account on X — a sanctioned campaign account — tweeted out both fact checks of Trump's false claims and highlighted some of the more bizarre things he said. All were accompanied by short video clips of the former president.

Former President Donald Trump won the North Dakota Republican caucuses Monday, according to projections from NBC News and the New York Times.

Trump defeated former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the last contest before Super Tuesday, the day with most delegates at stake as 15 states hold primaries and caucuses. A third of the delegates are up for grabs.

Former President Donald Trump legal strategist Kenneth Chesebro had an eyebrow-raising idea to help former President Donald Trump appease President Joe Biden after the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted Monday.

The odd advice appears in about 1,400 pages of emails, text messages and other documents released Monday amid the settling of a civil lawsuit filed against Chesebro, another attorney and 10 Wisconsin Republicans who posed as fake electors, the Associated Press reports.

Six Republicans facing criminal charges linked to Donald Trump's attempt to claim the 2020 presidential election won't stand trial until after the former president is expected to run again in 2024.

Nevada Judge Mary Kay Holthus punted their trial, slated to begin this month, to Jan. 13, 2025, the Associated Press reports. Holthus also scheduled a hearing next month to discuss defendants' attempt to have the charges tossed.

Insurrection can be a difficult topic to talk about, especially when you're a long-shot Republican presidential candidate on national television. That's particularly true when the host questioning you about it makes a small slip, as Nikki Haley learned during her interview with CNN host Jake Tapper on Monday.

"The explanation is not that they didn't like Donald Trump," Tapper told Haley, "they said that he participated in an erection."

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee's upcoming reelection bid in Georgia is an eventuality that could "add a whole new dimension" to the "weeks of theatrics" in the case, according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 13 charges in the case, where he has been charged alongside 18 others for attempting to delegitimize the results of the 2020 election. Trump contends the charges are politically motivated.

Less than a year ago, House Oversight and Reform chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) gave a press conference demanding the FBI hand over a claim from a confidential source — and promising never to use unverified information on the form as part of a "witch hunt."

It hasn't turned out that way.

The co-hosts of "The View" were floored to see the Supreme Court pick Congress as the decision-makers on the move to boot Donald Trump from state ballots using the Constitution's 14th Amendment insurrectionist clause.

The justices ruled Monday that Colorado could not remove the former president from its ballot — and that only Congress could make that decision when it comes to federal offices.