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Donald Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina demanded a mistrial in an early Monday morning filing in the civil lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll. In his filing, Tacopina outlined all the ways he believes Judge Lewis Kaplan has worked against his client and proclaimed it a miscarriage of justice. The judge denied it.

Legal analysts were quick to pour cold water on the effort.

On Monday, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow recalled a 2009 story about Republican lawmakers who went to Uganda, pretending to be experts in sexual orientation. At the time, they encouraged the country to have zero tolerance for homosexuality in their country and said it was what was a problem in the United States.

So, Uganda drafted what became known as the "Kill the Gays" bill, which would require all homosexual people to be hanged. The backlash was so huge that the Republicans claimed that they had nothing to do with that and that they would never have suggested something so extreme.

Joy Reid and Ayman Mohyeldin chuckled on Monday about the reports that the Republican Party still hasn't learned anything from their failures.

Speaking on Fox Sunday, Republican Party chair, Ronna Romney McDaniel explained that the biggest problem for the GOP in the 2022 midterm elections is that independent voters weren't breaking their way. "And abortion was a big issue in key states like Michigan and Pennsylvania."

Donald Trump was eager to speak out about the civil trial in New York with E. Jean Carroll on his social media account, but when it came time to testify under oath, he flew off to Scotland.

Lawyer Joe Tacopina has been one of Trump's many attorneys who took on the cross-examination of Carroll, trying to tear down her story and label it as false.

Thanks to the Wall Street Journal, documents — including Jeffrey Epstein's emails and schedule— reveal several surprising people that were previously unknown for having met with the deceased sex offender, including linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, as well as the current director of the CIA.

According to Slate, Epstein met with now-CIA Director William Burns, who had been at the State Department for years. There were three meetings scheduled with Burns in 2014. Two of those were in Manhattan, and another was at a law firm in Washington, D.C. Burns said he only met with Epstein once at the law firm and once in New York.

Seven bodies have been found on a property in Henryetta, Oklahoma, KOCO reported Monday.

The discovery was part of a search for two teenagers that had gone missing early Monday morning in eastern Oklahoma.

An individual is suspected of setting fire to two Minneapolis mosques last week and going on to vandalize U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) office, before moving on to a shopping center known as the Somali Mall, federal authorities reported.

Jackie Rahm Little, 36, was charged via warrant at the end of last week in connection with all three attacks that are being treated by the federal authorities as hate crimes, WCCO reported. The motive hasn't been revealed, but FBI, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara confidently believe it was hate-related as they were all designed to "inflict terror onto the Muslim community."

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace started her Monday show by calling out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as "remarkably callous."

The comments followed his comments after another mass shooting in Texas after a mother asked her family's neighbor to keep the noise down while he was shooting off his AR-15 in his yard Friday. Instead, the man killed most of the family members and has been on the run since, according to reports.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels spoke with Law&Crime in an exclusive interview that revealed she's eager to testify in the New York prosecution of Donald Trump – and that she's glad he has to face a judge.

“That’s his comeuppance because no one ever told him what to do, probably in his whole life,” Daniels told reporter Jesse Weber in the interview.

Jill Wine-Banks, a former prosecutor during the Watergate trials, noted that as she has been watching the E. Jean Carroll trial, she came to believe former President Donald Trump isn't doing very well.

"It's always more complicated," she prefaced. "We don't know exactly what the jury is feeling. I can tell you that I felt like I had moved back into the '50s, maybe the '70s. But her cross-examination, her testimony was compelling. It was powerful. It was very credible. She also has coming up I'm sure, expert witnesses who will rebut much of what [lawyer Joe] Tacopina is trying to do. You didn't scream? Many rape victims don't scream. Many don't report it. She talked to two friends, one said don't report it, he will destroy you. Another said you should. She took the course of not reporting it. It's very believable."

For the second weekend in a row, Fox host Mark Levin continued showing videos of his conversation with Donald Trump. Among the things Trump thought the Fox audience needed to know is that he was treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was killed before leaving office.

Trump began by saying that former President Andrew Jackson was treated very badly after he broke previous treaties, stole land, and forced the march of Native Americans to "Indian Territory." That land was then taken from the Native tribes and became known as Oklahoma.

Former President Donald Trump went on a tangent against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Sunday evening with a series of posts that called out his poor leadership during the COVID-19 crisis and mocked him for flaming out as he considers a presidential run.

Taking to his social media site, Truth Social, Trump threw up four posts that included article links to graphs and his signature rants.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was looking for a fight, and he certainly found one when he went after Disney for being too accepting and compassionate about all children and those young at heart.

According to Sun Sentinel opinion editor Steve Bousquet, DeSantis' attack on "The Mouse" has slowly begun to disturb residents.