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While speaking to a rally crowd in Sioux City, Iowa, Donald Trump complained about his legal challenges, including how much it has allegedly broken his bank.

According to the ex-president, he has $100 million in attorneys' bills. While it's certain that Trump owes an ample sum in legal fees, such a hefty amount would mean that all of his lawyers were making more than $10 million each. What might be true, however, is that from start to finish, Trump and those who are linked to him in several of the lawsuits have cost him nearly $37 million, the Associated Press reported last week.

MAGA lawyer Sidney Powell has continued to peddle election conspiracies despite pleading guilty last week to her role in the 2020 election conspiracy in Georgia – and experts are saying she can't have it both ways.

On her Truth Social and Telegram Wednesday, Powell said that she still firmly believes the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump and even attacked the Fulton County District Attorney's Office for what she called "extortion" to get her to cooperate.

Blake Masters has dropped out of the U.S. Senate race, announcing Thursday that he is running for Congress instead. It paves the way for failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to take the Republican nomination.

Masters, who failed in his attempt at a U.S. Senate seat in 2022 against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), announced his new campaign on social media, saying that he's seeking the eighth congressional district.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) continued his investigation into President Joe Biden and his family with a letter sent this week to the Justice Department recounting what he says he has "discovered."

National security expert Marcy Wheeler has followed the GOP's attempts to find dirt on Biden through his family from the start – and found Grassley's latest report shocking in its brazenness.

Donald Trump's lawyer Chris Kise on Thursday protested the $10,000 fine the ex-president was handed after he verbally attacked a court clerk. Kise had said on Wednesday that he was against the fine being issued in the first place because he didn't want to have to spend time writing another appeal.

By Thursday, Kise brought it up again, claiming that Trump's First Amendment rights are being violated.

Donald Trump snarled Thursday after being hit with a fine for violating the gag order set by Judge Arthur Engoron in the New York fraud case.

He started his morning with another rant against the judge, saying in a rambling social media post that Engoron "fined me $10,000 yesterday under his so-called gag order."

Donald Trump left his fraud trial courtroom during a short morning recess Wednesday – and quickly appeared to violate the gag order set by Judge Arthur Engoron.

The Associated Press reported that Trump repeated attacks on the judge as a "partisan" – but added that he has "a person who is much more partisan sitting alongside of him," quoted The Messenger's Adam Klasfeld.

Day two of Michael Cohen testifying in Donald Trump's fraud trial kicked off Wednesday with the witness accusing the defendant's lawyer of yelling at him.

It followed an eventful first day of testimony Tuesday in which Trump's former lawyer Cohen took to that stand and occasionally called his own objections – which triggered Trump's lawyers so much that Chris Kise shot out of his chair to exclaim, "Your, honor, the witness is out of control," prompting the courtroom to erupt with laughter.

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen left court for lunch on Tuesday after bombshell testimony that he helped his former boss artificially inflate his assets – and came back for an afternoon session that was almost as lively.

MSNBC's Lisa Rubin was among those in the courtroom, live tweeting events as they unfurled.