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Hours before Donald Trump was scheduled to appear at a Manhattan courtroom where he is facing 34 felony counts related to election interference related to hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels, the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" shared a new ad demonstrating his legal issues would make him unemployable.

In the ad, produced by the Republican Voters Against Trump PAC, an actor is heard asking real-life employers for a job while admitting he is currently facing 88 felony accounts, has been accused of stealing government secrets and then asking, "Do you all take people who have been found liable of sexual assault?"

In each case, he is warned he won't get through an interview, with the employers replying "They're going to do a background check," and "We actually run a full background. It won't go through."

The ad then concludes with, "If Trump is too big of a liability to get a job at your local mall, he is too big of a liability to be president of the United States."

As part of a preview of the Monday beginning of Donald Trump's hush-money trial, CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen explained the prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office did themselves an enormous favor by getting two attorneys seated on the jury.

Early Monday morning, Judge Juan Merchan will convene the historic trial where the former president faces 34 felony counts that amount to alleged election interference for paying adult film star Stormy Daniels to remain quiet about their affair before the 2016 presidential election.

Based upon the opinion of two prospective jurors who did not make the cut to participate in the historic criminal trial of Donald Trump, the former president's defense may be hampered by the attorney he hand-selected to oversee the case.

With opening statements scheduled to begin Monday morning in the so-called hush money case where the former president is looking at the possibility of jail time after being charged with 34 felonies, the last thing Trump needs is a lawyer whose courtroom demeanor has already been singled out.

In interviews with the New York Times' Maggie Haberman, the two dismissed New Yorkers, who wished to remain anonymous due to the prospect of threats, described the scrutiny they were under after filling out a questionnaire and expressed annoyance with attorney Todd Blanche.

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According to the report, the unidentified man and a woman only identified as Kara, both professed that they were aware they would have to put their feelings aside and judge Trump based upon the evidence presented.

Donald Trump kicked off his Saturday morning by going on an all-caps tirade aimed at Judge Juan Merchan as his attorneys prepare to defend him in a contempt hearing set for early next week over his other attacks on Truth Social.

On Monday, the former president's trial on 34 felony counts related to paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels will proceed after a jury was sworn in on Friday.

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Now facing an actual criminal trial that could lead to four years in prison if he is found guilty, the ex-president is ramping up his attacks on the judge and appears to still be furious he is going to trial.

On Saturday morning, he wrote, "THIS SCAM 'RUSHED' TRIAL TAKING PLACE IN A 95% DEMOCRAT AREA IS A PLANNED AND COORDINATED WITCH HUNT THAT COULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT 8 YEARS AGO, BUT EVERYBODY PASSED. INSTEAD THEY WAITED AND BROUGHT IT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE WORST AND MOST INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT EVER, CROOKED JOE BIDEN. IT IS BEING PRESIDED OVER BY POSSIBLY THE MOST CONFLICTED JUDGE IN JUDICIAL HISTORY, WHO MUST BE REMOVED FROM THIS HOAX IMMEDIATELY. I DID NOTHING WRONG!"

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) says some of his fellow House Republicans would "take a bribe" to throw the razor-thin GOP majority to the Democrats if a far-right faction calls up a motion to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, allowing Democrats to hand the gavel to the Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries. He warned if that happens, Democrats would immediately declare Trump ineligible to be President, pack the U.S. Supreme Court, and pass numerous laws like the American Rescue Plan.

"I do believe in a one seat majority there could be one or two or three of my colleagues who would take a bribe in one form or another in order to deprive the Republicans of a majority at all," Gaetz said Friday on his podcast (video below.)

The Fox News host who targeted a juror serving on Donald Trump's criminal New York trial is now suggesting the ex-president should violate his gag order and "force" the court to throw him in jail, by quoting the Fox News host.

Jesse Watters came under fire earlier this week for profiling juror number two, sharing possibly identifying information published by a myriad of reporters but then using that information to pass judgment on her ability to serve.

Donald Trump rattled off a series of social media posts demanding presidential immunity and threatening his predecessors before heading into the fourth day of his criminal trial Friday.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in Trump's appeal of his Washington, D.C., election subversion case, in which he claims to have broad immunity as a former president, and he issued what sounded like a threat to prosecute his immediate predecessors and his chief Democratic rival Joe Biden.

A sitting Republican Congressman is harshly criticizing far-right House Republicans over their apparent support of Russia.

"I guess their reasoning is they want Russia to win so badly that they want to oust the Speaker over it. I mean that's a strange position to take," U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a three-term Texas Republican rated a hard-core conservative told CNN's Manu Raju, in video posted Thursday. "I think they want to be in the minority too. I think that's an obvious reality."

As Donald Trump heads back to a Manhattan courtroom where he is facing 34 felony counts related to allegedly paying off an adult film star before the 2016 presidential election, a new possible criminal investigation into income tax evasion is rearing its head.

At the center of the criminal complaint filed with the Department of Justice (DOJ) by watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a mysterious $50 million loan that has been listed by the former president in his disclosures to the court that may or may not exist.

The media's ability to shape public opinion is well-documented, and by the end of the second day of the first criminal trial in history of a former U.S. president critics are slamming the content, framing, and focus of mainstream media organizations. The biggest concerns: refusing to cover the former president's apparent inability to stay awake in court, too much identifying information of potential and chosen jurors, and even subtle descriptions that can be used to feed into false perceptions the trial is "unfair" or, as the ex-president likes to say, a "scam."

Overnight, CNN's Oliver Darcy's "Reliable Sources" newsletter blasted mainstream media outlets that "strangely show little interest in reporting on Donald Trump's courtroom naps."

Republican justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical of a law used to prosecute over 300 January 6 defendants, and Donald Trump, as they heard oral arguments Tuesday.

"A decision rejecting the government’s interpretation of the law could not only disrupt those prosecutions but also eliminate two of the federal charges against former President Donald J. Trump in the case accusing him of plotting to subvert the 2020 election," The New York Times reports.

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was raked over the coals on Tuesday in a hearing conducted by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, particularly by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia).

Georgia's senior U.S. senator confronted DeJoy — one of former President Donald Trump's top campaign donors who became head of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in 2020 — over persistent mail delays in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. A vast majority of mail in the area has been delivered late due to DeJoy's overhaul of the USPS dubbed "Delivering for America." According to Georgia Public Broadcasting, Ossoff gave DeJoy a direct ultimatum during the hearing.