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Donald Trump owes nearly $90,000 for every day he doesn’t pay his $355 million civil fraud trial penalty, according to multiple new reports

Justice Arthur Engoron’s “devastating” judgment increases 9 percent every year until it is paid off, according to the New York Daily News. Tallies from Attorney General Letitia James’ office put that at about $87,500 per day, according to the News.

A full-blown government shutdown may be coming, if reported rumors circulating among top Republican lawmakers are true.

In the power centers amongst the House of Representatives, there is chatter about a temporary stoppage of funding that could throw a wrench in the federal budget, according to a new Axios report.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was slammed Tuesday for publicly demanding information his political opponents say he'd received weeks before, according to a new report.

Jordan Tuesday subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and demanded case files for a number of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S.

A Jan. 6 rioter has accused an indicted FBI agent of stealing his cash and silver bars, according to a new report.

Former FBI agent Nicholas Anthony Williams was indicted last month on charges that he stole $2,500 in cash and silver bars, Law&Crime revealed Tuesday.

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley's declaration that she refuses to “kiss the ring" of Donald Trump spurred the former president's spokesperson to lash out on social media with curses and insults.

"She’s going to drop down to kiss --- when she quits," former President Donald Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung tweeted Tuesday. "Like she always does."

Donald Trump's one-time fixer Michael Cohen is the former president's "sworn enemy" — and the former president "will stop at nothing" to destroy him, according to a MSNBC legal analyst.

Lisa Rubin appeared on MSNBC's "Deadline White House" on Tuesday to discuss Trump's upcoming criminal court case linked to accusations that he paid hush money to an adult film star to cover up an affair before the 2016 presidential election.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) says the Republican Party's impeachment probe into Joe Biden is effectively dead, but he still can't admit it's because their only "informant" stands accused of lying to the FBI, a former Obama Administration staffer quipped Tuesday.

Alexander Smirnov has been indicted on charges he lied about the former vice president receiving a $5 million bribe through his son Hunter, which MSNBC host Alicia Menendez called a "major blow" to Republicans.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Donald Trump appointee whose decisions have raised concerns about bias toward the former president, might have finally gone too far, wrote legal experts Norm Eisen and Joshua Kolb for Slate on Tuesday.

What's more, special counsel Jack Smith might be gearing up to ask the appellate court to step in and get rid of her.

The New York bankruptcy court ruled on Tuesday that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani can appeal the civil court ruling that he defamed Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. But he will not be allowed to use his own money to do so.

A jury awarded the women a stunning $148 million in damages from Giuliani in December, and he filed for bankruptcy shortly after.

Donald Trump's failure-forward bankruptcy business model has been foiled by his success as a presidential candidate and that could mean trouble should he return to the White House, a media commentator explained Monday night.

Tim O'Brien appeared on "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" Monday to remind Americans — who last week witnessed the former president slammed with a more than $350 million civil fraud judgement — that money problems are nothing new to Trump.

Former President Donald Trump ended up with an $83.3 million judgment in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case — and yet he continues to push the same false claims that he never knew the writer, most recently at an event over the weekend.

Shawn Crowley, an attorney representing Carroll, told MSNBC's Jen Psaki on Monday that they are still monitoring him for legally actionable behavior.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis feels confident she defeated former President Donald Trump's co-defendants in a recent hearing that put her professional conduct into question.

Willis's ability to prosecute Georgia's election interference case against Trump hangs in the balance as a Georgia judge considers whether last week's hearing proved she had committed misconduct.