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Former President Donald Trump's odd response to reports that he frequently naps through his criminal hush money trial triggered a wave of mockery on social media Thursday.

Trump's excuse, peppered with self admiration, appeared on Truth Social Thursday.

Legal analysts found it unusual to see Donald Trump's lawyers clash with a witness during the Manhattan hush money trial on Thursday.

Trump faces 34 felony counts surrounding accusations he paid adult film star Stormy Daniels to hide details of a sexual relationship ahead of the 2016 election. Daniels' former attorney, Keith Davidson, also helped negotiate a hush money deal with Playboy playmate Karen McDougal involving similar allegations.

Justice Juan Merchan appeared to lose patience with Donald Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, in the hearing on Thursday about potential violations of a gag order, legal analysts and reporters in the courtroom posted on social media.

Trump has already been found to have broken the order nine times. Thursday's hearing came after the Manhattan District Attorney's office accused him of four new violations.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is widely expected to survive Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's planned motion to vacate next week, when some Democrats are predicted to pitch in and save him, but that may be merely a Pyrrhic victory, cautions Charles R. Davis.

Why? According to the Salon writer's Wednesday column, Johnson's career could be effectively over.

Donald Trump's campaign is "playing up" issues like crime to appeal to more male voters and turn the 2024 election into a "men vs. women" contest, an Axios reporter claimed Wednesday.

Speaking to MSNBC, Axios co-founder Jim Vandehei said that with ballot initiatives for reproductive health in states around the country, Trump's campaign has given up attempting to appeal to female voters and opted for appearing more "manly" instead.

Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert has jumped from her own district and into another part of the state in an effort to keep a seat in Congress — but one columnist on Wednesday said it was she, not the area she covered, that was the problem.

Writing for the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, Mark Z. Barabak called the congresswoman "one of a feral breed of conservatives attacking Congress from within."

Donald Trump's second administration will find itself unable to rely on a key restraint that prevented the former president from pursuing bad federal policy during his first term, a one-time staffer warned Wednesday.

Former Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews appeared on CNN to share her fears that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, will surround himself with easily swayed staffers should he regain the White House in 2025.

Fox News commentators have flipped reality on its head to paint a "cult" like narrative about former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan that gives off "North Korea vibes," argued Greg Sargent in a blistering analysis for the New Republic.

This analysis arrives as the former president faces an ongoing trial which has been rife with mishaps that include reports of frequent courtroom naps, a contempt ruling and a threaten of jail from judge Juan Merchan over multiple gag order violations.

A longstanding legal firm serving former President Donald Trump's campaign and businesses is seeking to withdraw from a lengthy case because of “irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship,” according to a new report and court records.

The firm LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Rosen, Kittridge, Carlin and McPartland on Friday requested to remove itself from a lawsuit filed by a campaign surrogate who said the campaign sidelined her in 2016 after she revealed she was pregnant, the New York Times was first to report.

Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin Tuesday took a harsh view of the contempt order handed down by Manhattan criminal court judge Juan Merchan to former President Donald Trump.

"I think it is historic and I think we need to pause and recognize what a big deal this," Toobin told a CNN panel Tuesday night. "This is a finding of criminal contempt that had to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and that's what the judge did."