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Some investors who have been shorting the stock offering from Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of the Truth Social platform in which Donald Trump holds a major stake, are admitting they have a secondary motive besides cashing in as its value declines.

In interviews with the Associated Press, more than a few retail investors suggested they hope their bet on the company floundering will severely damage Trump's ability to eventually cash in and use the proceeds to pay his legal fees and maintain his lavish lifestyle.

Insiders in former President Donald Trump's intimate circle are glued to his hush money trial as courtroom testimony is revealing new salacious details that they hadn't already known, a political analyst said Friday.

Trump's New York City trial — in which he stands accused of falsifying business records to bury scandalous stories about himself ahead of the 2016 presidential election — has the rapt attention of the insiders who don't know what to expect, CNN reporter Kristen Holmes said Friday.

As a CNN panel hosted by Jim Acosta delivered blow-by-blow reports from the Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump and his legal team are fighting 34 felony counts related to paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels, a former White House counsel who served under the ex-president tried to explain the delay in Judge Juan Merchan's contempt ruling.

After prosecutors brought Trump's attacks on the court and witnesses before the judge on Tuesday and asked for sanctions for gag order violations, legal observers have been waiting to see if Merchan will merely fine Trump or send him packing to jail.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) is facing a firestorm of criticism for boasting in her new book that she shot and killed her family's 14-month old puppy because it was “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.

On Friday, the Guardian reported the incident that Noem recalled in her book "No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward," published as her name is being bandied about as a possible Donald Trump 2024 running mate.

The far-reaching felony indictments in Arizona for election tampering, combined with Donald Trump's own legal problems, could hasten one or more of the accused to flip on the former president in a race with their co-conspirators to secure the best deal.

According to former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, the 58-page indictment that names former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, ex-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and lawyer John Eastman among others came after too long a period of consideration, but is nonetheless solid.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is responding to Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Donald Trump's claim he has "absolute immunity" from criminal prosecution because he was a U.S. president, and she delivered a strong warning in response.

Trump's attorney argued before the nation's highest court that the ex-president could have ordered the assassination of a political rival and not face criminal prosecution unless he was first impeached by the House of Representatives and then convicted by the Senate.

Any chance that Donald Trump may have of winning re-election will require that he expand the number of voters willing to choose him over President Joe Biden — and that has the former president making some political concessions that risk alienating some of his most ardent followers.

In recent weeks, Trump has gone wishy-washy on the far-right's plans for more extensive limits on abortion — which is angering the anti-choice right. And then he added insult to injury by backing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as he pushed through a foreign aid bill that is sending billions to Ukraine.

The county clerk for Ingham County, Michigan blasted Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump after the ex-president's daughter-in-law bragged the RNC will have people to "physically handle" voters' ballots in polling locations across the country this November.

“We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers, people standing in polling locations, but people who can physically handle the ballots," Trump told Newsmax host Eric Bolling this week, as NCRM reported.

Upon arrival at the Manhattan courthouse where he is facing 34 felony counts related to election interference in the 2016 election, Donald Trump ran to the cameras and went on a long rant, including raging that his followers are being blocked from showing up to support him.

That led CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale to point out that the former president was lying almost non-stop.

The failure of Melania Trump to make an appearance at the Manhattan courtroom where her husband Donald is facing 34 felony counts related to paying off an adult film star is hurting his defense in multiple ways.

That's a claim made by analyst Amanda Marcotte in her column for Salon, where she said that the former first lady's absence is likely crippling a line of defense his lawyers would like to use to gain some sympathy from jurors.

According to a report from the Financial Times, the outside auditor hired by Trump Media & Technology Group to create a report used by investors for guidance has a history of using multiple names when signing off on documentation, which is raising some eyebrows.

The report notes that BF Borgers accounting firm principal, Ben F. Borgers, has filed forms using 10 different names including, Ben F Brogers, Blake F Borgers and Ben F Vonesh, among others that may just be simple misspellings.

Reacting to a desperate early morning plea from Donald Trump this week in which he urged Republican Party lawmakers to step in and make his legal problems go away, one political analyst stuck a knife in his hopes.

Early Wednesday, Trump ranted on Truth Social about his latest trial, writing in part that it, "Is a hit job on a Political Opponent the likes of which the USA has never seen before. For the Good of our Country, it must be stopped. The Crooked Joe Biden Witch Hunts have to be ended. REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON MUST TAKE ACTION!"