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Even if the Republican National Committee was flush with cash — which it is not — there is only so much it can do to bail Donald Trump out of his legal predicament when it comes to funneling cash to him.

With the imminent departure of chair Ronna McDaniel and plans by the former president to load the leadership up with MAGA loyalists like his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, concerns have been raised by Republicans that the RNC would become another cash cow for the embattled ex-president while ignoring GOP officeholders going into the November election.

Special counsel Jack Smith would like the trial date for the Mar-a-Lago documents case to begin in July, but Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday sent a signal that might be too ambitious of a timeline.

Reporting from Florida, CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid brought word that Judge Cannon appeared skeptical that starting the trial on July 8th would be realistic.

An upstate New York man convicted of killing a young woman who mistakenly pulled into his driveway will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

Kevin Monahan was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life for shooting into a car on April 15 and killing 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis, who had pulled into the driveway of his Hebron home with some friends while looking for a party, reported NBC News.

Donald Trump and his lawyers are claiming any attempt to hold a 2024 trial conflicts with Justice Department rules requiring a pause of any investigation into a presidential candidate 60 days prior to an election — but a legal expert has debunked that as wishful thinking.

University of Alabama School of Law Professor Joyce Vance explained that a Friday morning hearing before Judge Aileen Cannon had the goal of outlining a trial schedule for the classified documents case in Florida. Trump's preference is to pause the trial indefinitely or, at the very least, hold it after the 2024 election — which could allow him to order his Justice Department to stop the prosecution.

With Donald Trump facing major federal criminal trials in Georgia, Washington, D.C. and Florida, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig explained to his colleagues that he believes the former president is fine with the Florida Mar-a-Lago documents case proceeding first — but not because the judge presiding over it is one of his own appointees.

Speaking with host John Berman, Honig said the obstruction of justice case that Jack Smith is bringing in Florida may be the most rock-solid for special counsel Jack Smith when it comes to evidence — but the embattled former president believes that's the case where he might find the most sympathetic jurors.

Early Friday morning, writer E. Jean Carroll announced for all the world to see that Donald Trump has yet to cough up the $83.3 million he owes her after she defeated him in two separate civil trials.

Taking to X, Carroll dropped a message to the former president with a simple message that Trump has "one week to pay" on her social media platform, while also linking to a Fortune summary of his courtroom loss to her as well as his other courtroom financial setbacks that have him scrambling to come up with almost a half billion dollars quickly.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) revealed that even some Republican lawmakers agreed with Hunter Biden that Jared Kushner was probably more worthy of investigation than him.

President Joe Biden's son testified for more than six hours this week in a closed-door deposition, where he denied his father's involvement in his foreign business dealings and then, Goldman told MSNBC's "Morning Joe," offered a comparison of what he's accused of doing as a private citizen and the actions Donald Trump's son-in-law took while serving as a White House official.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) this week made the argument that former President Donald Trump's election interference case must be tried ahead of the 2024 presidential election -- and The New Republic's Greg Sargent argues she's handed Democrats a "weapon" to use against both Trump and the Supreme Court.

Right after the Supreme Court agreed to take up Trump's claims that his actions in trying to illegally remain in power constituted legitimate uses of his presidential powers and were thus immune from prosecution, Cheney issued a statement emphasizing the importance of having the case go to trial by this November.

With the clock ticking and interest piling up by the day, Donald Trump faces a "nightmare" scenario where he has only about three weeks to come up with approximately a half billion dollars just to appeal a ruling from Judge Arthur Engoron that some legal experts claim he has no chance of winning.

As CNN is reporting, it is not that the former president can't raise the money, but more to what extremes he will have to go, which could include an asset fire sale in a bad market where buyers can take advantage of him or finding a bank willing to take a wild gamble that they might not get their money back.

With the former president having to come up with $454 million to satisfy a financial fraud judgment authored by Judge Arthur Engoron and another $83.3 million owed to writer E. Jean Carroll stemming from two civil trials, "Trump’s lawyers said he may have to dump some of his properties under 'exigent circumstances' to raise cash quickly," reports CNN.

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As the report notes, Trump is facing some major roadblocks if he wants to avoid the courts and lawyers seizing his assets, one of which is that he reportedly doesn't have up-to-date personal financial info to hand over to any potential lender.

House Republicans continue to press forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, but even conservative media outlets are growing impatient and increasingly skeptical.

The inquiry has failed to turn up any evidence connecting the president to his son's business dealings, and Hunter Biden told lawmakers in a closed-door deposition that his father had no involvement whatsoever, and Fox News and Newsmax hosts have pressed Republicans to prove their allegations.

In an effort to make sure the Republican Party doesn't lose control of the House — and with that, his speakership — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has been working behind the scenes with Donald Trump to quash possible "toxic" GOP candidates, some of whom are ardent boosters of the former president.

According to a report from Politico's Olivia Beavers and Ally Mutnick, Johnson made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to conspire with Trump to clamp down on the burgeoning candidacies of at least two conservatives who could gather up the nomination but lose the general election.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Donald Trump for hurling childish taunts and lying about his own record on immigration during a visit to the border.

President Joe Biden and Trump each delivered remarks on immigration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, and while the current president called for bipartisan cooperation to address the issue, the "Morning Joe" host highlighted the ex-president's coarse, incoherent and insulting statements read off a printout.

Most Americans contribute to Social Security year-round, but U.S. millionaires will stop paying into the critical program on March 2—just over two months into 2024.

That's because Social Security's payroll tax doesn't apply to earned income above a certain level. For 2024, the cut-off is $168,600, and capital gains—such as stock appreciation—are not subject to the payroll levy at all. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the world's richest man, pays nothing into Social Security because he doesn't take a salary.