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Former President Donald Trump should be worried about the evidence stacked up against him, said his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen on MSNBC Monday — including the evidence Cohen himself plans to bring to bear.

Trump is facing down the first of his four criminal trials next month: the hush money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. And Cohen, who has been described as a key witness in the case, told anchor Jen Psaki that case is strong.

Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News pundit who is also a former judge, raised eyebrows Monday when she made a strange legal comparison between former President Donald Trump and two notorious convicted fraudsters.

Pirro complained that Trump had gotten an unfair deal in his New York City civil fraud trial — in which he was found liable for $464 million, but will be allowed to pay a $175 million bond as he pursues an appeal — in comparison to Bernie Madoff, the perpetrator of the world's largest Ponzi scheme, and Sam Bankman-Fried, a cryptocurrency "wunderkind" who could be sentenced this week to up to 100 years in prison.

Donald Trump may be a stable genius, but Judge Juan Manuel Merchan is proving to be the stable hand who might be the former president's perfect foil.

That's according to to Miriam “Mimi” Rocah, a former federal prosecutor and current Westchester County District Attorney, who appeared Monday on CNN's "Out Front" to laud the New York City jurist overseeing Trump's criminal hush money case.

Former President Donald Trump has the swing state of Michigan on his mind and a particular voting bloc he'd like to sway, according to new reports.

State GOP have been urged to make strides to win over “nontraditional Republicans voters and traditional Democrat voters — specifically Black voters — around the city and state, state GOP leaders said on Monday, according to the Associated Press.

House Republicans could be on the brink of "waving the white flag" as their efforts to impeach President Joe Biden look dead, Steve Benen wrote for MSNBC's MaddowBlog on Monday.

The GOP, led by Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), have been pursuing impeachment on the theory that Biden laundered international bribes through his son Hunter's foreign business dealings — but there is no concrete evidence yet to support this.

Donald Trump flashed a rare smile during a hearing in his hush money case Monday that was captured in a courtroom sketch and almost immediately mocked online.

Newsweek was first to report the response to court artist Jane Rosenberg's sketch that shows the former president, accused of falsifying business records to pay off adult film star Stormy Daniels, raising his eyebrows and sporting a grin.

Former President Donald Trump caught a break on Monday when a New York appeals court cut his bond to $175 million in the civil property fraud case and gave him 10 extra days to come up with the money.

But there is one unlikely group that might be privately dismayed by the development, conservative commentator S.E. Cupp told CNN: pro-Trump political action committees.

An attorney charged in former President Donald Trump's Georgia election racketeering case faces another court battle this week to keep his law license, according to a new report.

Jeffrey Clark is the subject of a complaint filed by the watchdog group The 65 Project, which has filed numerous election-related complaints against lawyers across the country, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Monday.

Former President Donald Trump got a lucky break on Monday, when a New York appeals court reduced the bond he owes in the $464 million civil fraud case to just $175 million — and gave him an extra 10 days to come up with the money before state Attorney General Letitia James can begin seizing his assets to pay what he owes.

The decision in the case, in which Trump was found liable for inflating property values to manipulate the Trump Organization's tax burden and loan interest terms, came just hours before James would have been able to seize his properties, which by some accounts, she was gearing up to do with his Westchester assets.

Judge Aileen Cannon handed special counsel Jack Smith a victory in his federal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, court records show.

Cannon Friday ruled that Smith can substitute summaries for some sensitive intelligence materials he'll need to share with Trump and his attorneys as the stalled Florida case slouches toward its yet-to-be-decided court date.

Former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial bond troubles are exposing him to more scrutiny, and ridicule too, a legal expert said Thursday.

Former prosecutor and Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman told Salon Thursday he was baffled by Trump's recent announcement that he could not find an insurer to back the $464 million payment due Monday in his New York civil fraud case.