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'Getting into his lawyer's face': Trump pushes attorney to 'fight harder' in trial

Donald Trump lost it with his lawyers once the group returned from the lunch recess, according to a report.

The lawyers were fighting over Trump's team's failure to produce documents under New York's reciprocal discovery laws.

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'They didn't show up': MSNBC host mocks size of MAGA protest outside hush money trial

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell wasn't exactly blown away by the crowd of Donald Trump supporters outside the Manhattan courthouse where he's standing trial Monday.

"The revolution will not be televised. Because they didn’t show up. Couple million Trump voters live within an hour of courthouse. Maybe 50 showed up," he posted on X Monday.

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'Sit': Animated Trump lawyer ordered to take seat by hush money judge

Donald Trump's top lawyer Todd Blanche got a firm order from the judge in the hush money case Monday.

The attorney kept jumping up to interrupt a prosecutor as they argued about what evidence could be presented to the jury in the case involving allegations that Trump arranged for money to be paid to an adult movie actress to hide an affair from 2016 voters.

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Ex-Trump aide says Republicans have 'made peace' with hush money case

"The View" opened Monday with footage of Donald Trump entering the New York criminal courthouse as he faces the fraud trial over the Stormy Daniels hush money scheme.

"I mean, Melania has barely been seen in the last few months," Ana Navarro said of Trump's wife.

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'Shrunken' Trump looks as if the 'reality of the trial' has hit him: legal expert

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski showed Donald Trump as he entered the New York courthouse on Monday for jury selection in his hush money election interference and fraud trial.

After Trump spoke inside the courthouse, the "Morning Joe" host noted he was "making a few lies there" — particularly as he repeated his claims that the case has no merit and it's a political witch hunt orchestrated by President Joe Biden.

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Alvin Bragg can't show jury 'Access Hollywood' tape — but he can use the transcript: judge

Judge Juan Merchan ruled Monday that Trump's prosecutors cannot show the jury in his hush money trial the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape — but he has allowed the transcript to be used during the trial.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wanted to use the tape, in which Trump brags about how his celebrity lets him make sexual advances to women, as evidence.

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'One broken man abused by another broken man': Trump-Johnson presser ridiculed online

Former President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson's Mar-a-Lago press conference Friday was met with almost immediate scorn from a slew of social media skeptics.

Trump and Johnson's national address focused on an "election integrity" bill the two Republicans argued was necessary to prevent "hundreds of thousands" of noncitizens from taking part in federal elections. The press conference also provided the the pair a platform to speak out against immigration policy under President Joe Biden.

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'Dime-store demagogy': Not even conservatives are buying Trump's election integrity bill

Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson's announcement of a new "election integrity" was met with scorn from fellow conservatives Friday.

Trump and Johnson addressed the nation from Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida social club, to promote their solution to what they described as a looming problem in the 2024 presidential election.

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Judge gives last-minute denial to Trump's demand to stop hush money trial

Judge Juan Merchan made a last-minute ruling Friday that denied Donald Trump's attempt to stop his New York hush money trial, claiming pretrial publicity made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.

The first of the former president's criminal cases to go before a jury is now almost certain to start Monday.

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'Very boring': Rev. Al Sharpton laughs at reason Alvin Bragg isn't a good target for Trump

Donald Trump has spent much of the past few years attacking prosecutors, judges or anyone else involved in court cases against him but, according to Rev. Al Sharpton, he won't have much ammunition when it comes to hush money prosecutor Alvin Bragg.

Nicolle Wallace began the conversation on MSNBC Friday with questions about jury selection, which begins Monday in the criminal case.

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Trump mocked after insider admits ex-president 'couldn't get his head around' basic fact

Former President Donald Trump was ridiculed Friday after his former adviser admitted he "could not get his head around" a basic fact.

Former adviser Fiona Hill reports in a new book reviewed by the Guardian that Trump, as president, had a hard time understanding Ukraine was a country.

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'Pathetic and unAmerican': Liz Cheney goes on attack against 'Moscow Marge' Taylor Greene

Liz Cheney unleashed an attack Friday against Marjorie Taylor Greene for what she suggested was parroting Kremlin propaganda.

In an interview with the far-right streaming station "Real American Voices," Greene claimed there was no genuine concern that Russia's President Vladimir Putin had plans to invade the rest of Europe if he took over Ukraine.

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'Pretty dismissive': Republican says most House colleagues don't back MTG's speaker fight

WASHINGTON — The House drama continued into Friday as rumors spread that Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene could imminently move to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from his leadership post — but her colleagues told Raw Story there was little appetite to join her fight.

The Republican Conference met in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, where Greene said she didn't address the issue with the members.

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