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Laughter erupts in House when Trump-tied lawyer declares 'I have no awareness of anything'

Rep. Jerry Nadler burst out into laughter Thursday when a legal group leader with close political ties to former President Donald Trump testified to complete ignorance on all matters.

"I have no awareness of anything," America First Legal Vice President Gene Hamilton declared. Upon hearing Nadler chuckle, he affirmed, "I have awareness of what my clients tell me."

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'Word Salad': Legal expert says Alina Habba is speaking 'gibberish' while defending Trump

Alina Habba's latest talking points were purportedly pure mishmash.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner diced up Trump's attorney for what he called a "bunch of word salad" for being unable to express a cogent point while pushing back against the narrative that her client, former President Donald Trump, is cash-strapped and boxed in after a New York City judge ruled against him in the damning civil fraud case that will force him to pay $455 million in penalties.

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Trump denied stay on E. Jean Carroll verdict — judge cites 'his own dilatory actions'

Former President Donald Trump has lost his bid to get another extension on having to pay the judgment in the E. Jean Carroll verdict.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, Judge Lewis Kaplan has stated that Trump only has himself to blame for his current financial difficulty in paying the damages he owes to Carroll.

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Trump's scramble to pay off legal costs could set off existing loan defaults: analyst

Adding to Donald Trump's cash crunch woes as he scrambles to find cash to cover the half billion dollars he owes in civil damages is the specter of throwing his existing loans into default.

In an analysis into the multiple paths the former president could take to pay what he owes, the Atlantic's David Graham claimed Trump is hemmed in by a myriad of financial complications — with the clock ticking and interest piling up.

He's also facing the potential for asset forfeiture or a fire sale of his business empire if he can't find the money.

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'Toxic at the ballot box': Conservative shows why 'Trump is in for a major defeat'

Donald Trump went from being one of the unlikeliest of American presidents to having a firm grip on the Republican Party, its leadership, and its most extreme members despite his long history of failure at the ballot box in regards to his handpicked candidates.

The GOP will come to regret those failures when Trump loses in 2024, according to conservative columnist Reed Galen, in "what is likely to be a devastating electoral defeat."

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'I'm a first officer': Delta pilot corrects GOP lawmaker who calls her a 'stewardess'

A Republican Minnesota state senator was quick to apologize this week after he labeled a female airline pilot a "stewardess."

As a video posted by Heartland Signal shows, First Officer for Delta Air Lines Laura Haynor went before the state senate to testify at a hearing about employee sick time modifications.

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'Upset Trump' fumes over steamy details in criminal case he 'really hates': report

Former president Donald Trump is on the brink of a tantrum as details emerge from the criminal court case that he "really hates," according to a new report.

Trump is getting testy over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's looming hush money case as court filings reveal "steamy" details from the former president's past, sources who've spoken with Trump told the New York Times.

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'I'd be afraid': Officials fret about sharing classified intel with Trump as GOP nominee

In the likely event that he secured the GOP nomination, Donald Trump will start receiving security briefings from intelligence officials in President Joe Biden's administration.

The sharing of intel briefings with presidential nominees is a standard practice that goes back decades. But, as Politico points out, this marks the first time intelligence has been shared with a candidate accused of improperly handling classified information.

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Firebrands tell speaker they don't care about his demands for State of the Union decorum

Speaker Mike Johnson has reportedly been telling members of his party not to stage any embarrassing protests or shout out at President Joe Biden during the State of the Union Address on Thursday — but it appears his demands are falling on deaf ears.

At least two conservative members told the Louisiana Republican they don't care about his requests.

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N.Y. judge cites Trump's history of 'attacking trial jurors' in 'remarkable' new order

The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial in New York has ordered that the identities of the jurors will be concealed from the general public, amid credible fears that they could be subject to tampering, reported Law360's Frank G. Runyeon Thursday.

"The names of the jurors in Donald Trump's hush money case will be kept secret," wrote Runyeon. However, he added, Judge Juan Merchan ruled that Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and the attorneys for both sides will still know their identities and addresses.

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Notorious 'Access Hollywood' tape lays out Trump's 'motive' in hush-money case: prosecutor

Former President Donald Trump is fighting a fierce battle against District Attorney Alvin Bragg over the notorious "Access Hollywood" tape the Manhattan prosecutor says proves motive in his hush-money case, newly released court records show.

Bragg filed Tuesday his argument for introducing the tape — in which Trump can be heard boasting that his celebrity status allows him to sexually assault women without consequence — into evidence during the Manhattan criminal court trial.

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Jack Smith files blistering response to Trump's motion to dismiss classified docs case

Special counsel Jack Smith filed a thorough response to Donald Trump's motion to dismiss charges that he mishandled classified documents.

In a 27-page filing, Smith explained to U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon why he believed Trump's case should not be dismissed.

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'Let’s do this': Ex-Republican calls Elise Stefanik's bluff on 'are you better off today?'

Former Republican strategist Tim Miller is calling New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik's bluff after she tried to claim that people aren't better off today than they were four years ago.

The comment drew hefty criticism from people who remember the horrors of the pandemic, fights over toilet paper, panicked shoppers washing grocery bags and a clueless public desperate for accurate information that could help protect them.

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