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Donald Trump sent out a frantic fundraising plea centered around the possibility that Trump Tower might be seized as part of the massive New York fraud judgment leveled against him.

The former president's lawyers notified the court that none of 30 underwriting entities they approached would finance the half-billion bond he needs to pay as he appeals the fraud judgment, which means the New York attorney general's office could begin seizing his properties next week if he fails to pay by Monday's deadline.

A Republican witness became unglued Wednesday after a Democratic lawmaker declined to question him.

At a Wednesday House Oversight Committee impeachment hearing, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) directed questions to Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani.

Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas told the House Oversight and Reform Committee impeachment hearing into President Joe Biden Wednesday that Donald Trump directly 'encouraged" Giuliani to find dirt.

Parnas began by recalling a 2023 letter he sent to committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) that said he observed Giuliani's interference extensively in Ukraine politics.

New York Attorney General Letitia James could swoop in and seize former President Donald Trump's properties as soon as Monday, a CNN analyst reported Wednesday.

"They are ready to move forward to try to seize some of his assets, and possibly properties," CNN reporter Kara Scannell said.

Whoopi Goldberg began a Wednesday segment of "The View" pretending to shed tears for Donald Trump after his lawyers told a New York court he didn't actually have the money to pay his bills.

"I'm so sorry," she said, pretending to be emotional. "So, as it turns out, you-know-who says he cannot come up with the cash to cover his $400 million-plus bond in his New York fraud case."

Lev Parnas, a convicted criminal and former associate of Rudy Giuliani, said during testimony in the House of Representatives on Wednesday that he and Giuliani knowingly spread misinformation from Russia about President Joe Biden.

What's more, said Parnas, the two men knew at the time that this misinformation came from Russian intelligence operatives.

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday told the state's appeals court to ignore former President Donald Trump's claims that he can't cough up the $464 million damages he was hit with in his civil fraud trial, court records show.

James' taut slap-back comes as "panic" mounts among the Trump team just five days before the massive payment is due, sources close to the former president told CNN.

As the latest House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing unfolded on Wednesday, MSNBC host Ana Cabrera quipped that it seemed like lawmakers were trying to create drama to score media attention.

Capitol Hill reporter Ryan Nobles pointed to Florida Democrat Rep. Jared Moskowitz, who showed up in a Vladimir Putin mask. It's a reference to one of the Republican witnesses, Alexander Smirnov, who is accused of getting "dirt" on Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, after a meeting with Russian intelligence.

On Wednesday, a House Oversight impeachment hearing went off the rails in its first few minutes.

As witnesses were giving their opening statements, ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) wondered why Republican witnesses were allowed to attend remotely while Democratic witnesses were not allowed to in the past.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee began another Joe Biden impeachment hearing Wednesday, and ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) opened with a takedown of the Republican Party's inquiry so far.

It has become clear to many Republicans that they don't have the votes for impeaching Biden as the attempt at collecting incriminating evidence has largely fallen flat.

Donald Trump will have a chance to appeal a ruling that allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue overseeing her office's sprawling racketeering case into the former president and several of his associates.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Wednesday granted Trump permission to seek an appeal of a ruling McAfee himself made last week that scolded Willis for a "tremendous lapse of judgment" in creating the appearance of a conflict of interest when she hired Nathan Wade, a former boyfriend, to be the lead prosecutor on the case.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) used his opening remarks at a House hearing on the impeachment of President Joe Biden to opine on pipe bombs and cocaine.

"Who planted the pipe bombs on January 6th?" Jordan asked to kick off the House Oversight hearing on Wednesday. "Nobody seems to know. Who leaked the [Supreme Court's] Dobbs draft opinion? You know, the leak that led to an assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh."