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Donald Trump has spent more than $100 million on lawyers and other legal costs associated with the various lawsuits and criminal charges filed against him, according to a new analysis.

The New York Times analysis found the former president spent more than $90,000 a day on average on legal costs for more than three years — although none of it was paid with his own money, but instead came almost entirely from donations raised as he fought against his 2020 election loss.

Donald Trump has been able to get more than one of his criminal trials delayed, but a columnist warned Tuesday that the former president's "knee-jerk reaction to argue against any procedural task or appeal any ruling that appears unfavorable to him in the hopes of delay" will backfire.

In an op-ed published Wednesday, author and researcher Jeremy Novak points out that when it comes to Trump's classified documents case, he recently argued that he should know the identities of witnesses before the trial begins — likely because he wants to intimidate them, Novak contends.

The sister-in-law of a convicted Capitol rioter this week pleaded with the legal system to have mercy on him, even as she lambasted the defenses he attempted to use to stay out of jail.

In a letter flagged by NBC News' Ryan Reilly, Heather Kelley pleaded with Judge Royce Lamberth to go easy on her brother-in-law, Taylor James Johnatakis, who was convicted of assaulting police officers and other felony offenses when he stormed the United States Capitol building on January 6th, 2021.

Former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who was ousted by NBC News chairman Cesar Conde Tuesday after massive in-house and public outrage over signing her as a paid contributor, reportedly has some expectations about what she is owed.

Anger over McDaniel's hiring was palpable at MSNBC, where the news network's top hosts on-air denounced the decision to sign someone who allegedly assisted in trying to overturn the 2020 election. The New York Times on Tuesday reported, "a review of her record shows she was, at times, closely involved in and supportive of Mr. Trump’s legal and political maneuvering ahead of the violent attempt to block Congress from certifying Mr. Biden’s victory on Jan. 6."

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman told CNN's Fredricka Whitfield that the level of contempt and open hostility former President Donald Trump has for courts deciding his fate is something he's never seen in his entire experience in the criminal justice system.

This comes as New York Judge Juan Merchan becomes the latest to impose a gag order on Trump in the hush money trial, to stop his attacks on court officers and witnesses — something in the past he has been fined for violating.

A political commentator and regular guest on Fox Business suggested on air that Donald Trump should sue New York Attorney General Letitia James for "sex and race discrimination."

Deroy Murdock made the comments during a discussion regarding a New York appeals court agreeing to delay the collection of Trump's $454 million civil fraud judgment — which was recently lowered to a bond of $175 million that he must turn over within 10 days from Monday while he appeals the verdict.

A Republican is being slammed for making jokes about the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse.

On Tuesday, the Francis Scott Key Bridge tumbled into the water after being struck by a cargo ship that was passing through on its way to Sri Lanka. As of Wednesday, six people are presumed dead.

Donald Trump's net worth shot up more than $4 billion to a personal record high, according to a new analysis conducted in the wake of his social media merger.

Forbes calculated the former president's net worth at $6.4 billion, up from his recent $2.3 billion, on the first day of his social media company trading on the Nasdaq following a merger Monday between Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. and the blank-check company Digital World Acquisition Corp.

CNN anchor John Berman was stunned by new reporting that former President Donald Trump's newly-installed loyalists at the Republican National Committee are now grilling prospective hires to make sure they believe conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.

This comes as the RNC, now headed by a number of hand-picked pro-Trump figures like his own daughter-in-law, has faced pressure over its struggle to fundraise, and controversy for a now-reversed attempt to shut down outreach centers to nonwhite voters.

The 2024 election is likely to turn on the decision of voters who are dissatisfied with both candidates — whether they stick with President Joe Biden, opt for former President Donald Trump, or simply stay home or vote for a third-party campaign.

New data obtained by an Associated Press sponsored poll hints at what they are planning to do, and why.

New York Magazine columnist Jonathan Chait is taking a hatchet to claims by many Republicans that former President Donald Trump is a victim of "lawfare" by Democratic attorneys.

Chait starts out his new column by bringing some receipts of things that many conservatives -- including Sen. Ted Cruz and the editorial boards of the National Review and the Wall Street Journal -- said about Trump before he became the GOP's presidential nominee in 2016.