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One of Donald Trump’s fake electors testified Wednesday he’d been tricked into supporting the former president’s bid to reclaim Michigan in the 2020 presidential election, according to a new report.

James Renner, a 77-year-old former state trooper, said in a preliminary hearing for fellow fake electors that he had no idea it was illegal to join the slate of Republicans in a state won by President Joe Biden, the Associated Press reports.

A new analysis of how Donald Trump's legal fees are draining campaign cash coffers has eyebrows raised over the former president's decision to endorse his daughter-in-law to co-chair the Republican National Committee.

The Bloomberg report — which found Trump is on pace to spend $26.6 million on legal fees by July, when prime campaign season kicks off — notes the RNC could provide Trump cash for his lawyers, a point not lost on CNN host Jake Tapper.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says "now" House Republicans will "begin in earnest" to address the U.S. southern border, after he and Donald Trump were central to killing bipartisan Senate legislation that did just that, while he warned that the House is "not going to be forced into action" by the U.S. Senate.

For the better part of a year House Republicans have increasingly fixated on border issues, using them to attack President Joe Biden and Democrats. For months Senate Democrats and Republicans have been working together to craft bipartisan legislation that strongly addresses border issues, providing over $7 billion to help border patrol agents and the Dept. of Homeland Security handle the influx of immigrants crossing the border. Ultimately, Trump, Johnson, and Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell quashed that bill.

Donald Trump doubled down Wednesday on his claims that NATO members aren't paying enough.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday denounced Trump's invitation to Russia to "do whatever the hell they want" to member nations who were "delinquent" in their dues, calling his remarks "dumb," "shameful" and "dangerous," and the ex-president fired back a day later on his social media platform.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) tried to project confidence on Wednesday after his party suffered yet another stinging special election defeat, but members of his own party are already knifing him in interviews with Politico.

According to Politico, GOP insiders are facing "buyer's remorse" with Johnson, whom they see as "a man perpetually without a plan."

Disgraced former Congressman George Santos trolled his Republican ex-colleagues after a Democratic candidate won back his vacated House seat in a special election.

The indicted ex-lawmaker sent several mocking messages to a group chat of New York's GOP House delegation after Democrat Tom Suozzi won the seat he had previously given up to run unsuccessfully for governor, opening up the seat for Santos — who was expelled in December over a series of ethics violations, reported The Daily Beast.

Donald Trump should face trial before the 2024 presidential election, a pro-democracy group said on Wednesday.

In an amicus brief, the anti-authoritarian group Protect Democracy advised the U.S. Supreme Court that Trump was trying to delay his federal election subversion case beyond the 2024 election.

Donald Trump spent so much time in office talking about "winning" and focusing on future wins that it became a running joke — and a meme — each time he lost something.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) ridiculed the GOP using the Trump meme while speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday about the House leadership failing to pass legislation while obsessing over impeachment.

Former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens on Wednesday delivered a brutal analysis of the current state of the GOP in the wake of its latest special election loss in New York's Third Congressional District.

Stevens, who dropped the party after it made Trump its standard-bearer, argued on Twitter that it was no mystery as to why the party is currently suffering a long string of electoral defeats.

A co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump presented additional evidence to back his claim that one of the prosecutors should be disqualified.

In a court filing on Tuesday, attorneys for co-defendant David Shafer said that special prosecutor Nathan Wade made "false and misleading statements" in his divorce proceedings. Shafer has previously called for Wade and District Attorney Fani Willis to be disqualified.

Donald Trump handed out "get out of jail free" cards to some questionable characters as president, but a new court case is testing the limits of those pardons.

A federal appeals court is currently considering whether a pardon Trump gave in 2020 to Republican political operative Jesse Benton should have prevented a jury from hearing about his previous election crimes before convicting him of new ones, and the issue hinges on the unusual manner the former president handed them out, reported The Daily Beast.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did his best to put a happy spin on his party losing yet another special election on Tuesday, but Boston Globe Washington Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich wasn't buying it.

Appearing on CNN Wednesday, Kucinich pushed back on Johnson's claims that it's actually Democrats who should be nervous about their eight-point victory in the congressional district previously held by disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY).

Legal fees could empty Donald Trump’s coffers at just the moment he’ll need to ramp up spending against Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential campaign, according to a new analysis.

The former president is on pace to spend $26.6 million, raised by an allied super PAC to fund his multiple legal battles, by July — the same month the Republican National Convention kicks off official campaign season, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday.