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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) created more internal drama for her fellow House Republicans on Friday when she filed a motion to vacate the chair of the speaker of the House of Representatives.

While speaking with reporters after filing the motion, Greene sent a pointed message to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that his days leading the chamber were numbered.

Reacting to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filing a resolution to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), CNN host Jim Acosta called what is currently happening in the Republican-controlled House nothing less than a "hot mess."

Greene's power move, coming as the 2024 election looms, has now thrown Republicans ready to leave for a two-week vacation into chaos, reported CNN's Manu Raju who questioned if it will come to a vote soon.

Predictions about the future of former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, civil court litigation and financial standing were thrown into disarray Friday when news broke that his social media company had agreed to a merger that could net him $3 billion.

Trump, the Republican frontrunner trailing behind President Joe Biden in campaign fundraising and facing a looming $464 million deadline in his New York civil fraud trial, has reportedly been toying with the idea of declaring bankruptcy to avert financial disaster.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) threw the House of Representatives into chaos on Friday when she filed a motion to vacate the chair of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News.

Greene's petition marks the second time in less than a year that a House Republican has moved to oust their own speaker after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) last year filed a motion to vacate that led to the downfall of former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

It won't be easy to seize Donald Trump's property to satisfy the $464 million judgment against him in the New York fraud case.

Prior mortgages on Trump properties won't prevent New York Attorney General Letitia James from trying to collect on his assets, but some of those loans are forbiddingly steep and would make a forced sale less attractive, according to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin.

In a deal that could eventually net Donald Trump around $3 billion or more, shareholders in Digital World Acquisition Corporation this Friday voted in favor of a merger with the former President's social media company.

The vote comes over two years after DWAC said it planned to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns the Truth Social platform, NBC News reported.

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers are scrambling to explain away his $500 million boast, posted to Truth Social Friday morning, after they said in court filings their client couldn't come up with that kind of cash, according to a new report.

Trump's attorneys told CNN reporter Kara Scannell Friday morning that Trump's all-caps claim that he currently has almost $500 million in cash — more than the $464 million he's been ordered to pay in his New York City civil fraud trial — wasn't exactly right.

Donald Trump's Truth Social rant Friday in which he claimed to be sitting on $500 million in cash was met by a mixture of skepticism and mirth on CNN, with co-hosts and legal experts suggesting he likely doesn't have the money — and if he does it just opened up a whole new can of worms for him.

In an early all-cap post, the former president boasted: "THROUGH HARD WORK, TALENT, AND LUCK, I CURRENTLY HAVE ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH, A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WHICH I INTENDED TO USE IN MY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT."

In a post to Truth Social this Friday morning, Donald Trump claimed that he has "almost" $500 million in cash — a claim that contradicts his lawyers who said earlier this week that complying with the $464 million judgment against him in New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud case against him would cause "irreparable harm."

"THROUGH HARD WORK, TALENT, AND LUCK, I CURRENTLY HAVE ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH, A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WHICH I INTENDED TO USE IN MY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT. THE OFTEN OVERTURNED POLITICAL HACK JUDGE ON THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT A.G. CASE, WHERE I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG, KNEW THIS, WANTED TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME, AND THAT’S WHERE AND WHY HE CAME UP WITH THE SHOCKING NUMBER WHICH, COUPLED WITH HIS CRAZY INTEREST DEMAND, IS APPROXIMATELY $454,000,000. I DID NOTHING WRONG EXCEPT WIN AN ELECTION IN 2016 THAT I WASN’T EXPECTED TO WIN, DID EVEN BETTER IN 2020, AND NOW LEAD, BY A LOT, IN 2024.THIS IS COMMUNISM IN AMERICA!" Trump wrote in his usual all-caps style.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), a major ally of 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, has made it clear that one of his goals as a Republican is to wipe out what's left of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society.

In 2016, Gingrich praised Trump's agenda as a "great effort to break out of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt model." And one of the New Deal programs of the 1930s that Gingrich has taken aim at is Social Security, which he would like to see privatized.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," on Friday morning, investment banker and former Donald Trump White House official Anthony Scaramucci claimed that Wall Street executives are laughing among themselves at the former president's attempts to raise nearly a half billion for his financial fraud appeals bond.

Speaking with the "Morning Joe" panel, the former White House director of communications said he has been in contact with Wall Street bankers, all of whom are skeptical of loaning the embattled former president any money at all considering his history of not paying his bills.

"He defaults on everything, you know, if you talk to interior designers, architects, construction workers, plumbing people, he doesn't pay his bills," he explained, "He's always been that way. You can't give him the money because you don't have the 100 percent certainty — I mean, if he was rated by Moody's, he'd be a C-plus debt rating, which is specious."

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"His problem now is going to be about the identity he presents to his audience," he continued. "You know, 'I'm the guy. I'm the business maverick' If you don't really have the money like you've been saying you've had the money all these years, I think it is a big Achilles heel for him."

Pressed on why he can't get the cash he needs from his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Scaramucci first smiled before elaborating, "He may end up getting the money. The question is, where did he get the money? Did he get it from Wall Street? From anybody who knows him? Where is the money?"

"He's not getting it from Wall Street. I can tell you that," he continued. "Because of a declarative 'no' from every distressed lender on Wall Street. There was a little giggle group chat among a lot of people saying, can you believe this guy is looking for a half a billion dollars with a 15 percent coupon?"

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Former Trump White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin said that his reported desire to bring convicted felons such as Roger Stone and Paul Manafort back into the fold could hurt him with voters he desperately needs.

Appearing on CNN, Griffin said Trump bringing back Manafort struck her as particularly problematic.