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Donald Trump made a big mistake going into his second defamation trial with Alina Habba as his attorney, according to a legal expert.

The former president lost his first defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing her and making defamatory denials about her claims, which then resulted in a $5 million penalty. But a second jury last week imposed an $83.3 million penalty for separate defamatory statements he made about her while serving as president.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested two Navy SEALs were to blame after they were lost at sea during a night raid on a ship allegedly carrying Iranian weapons.

According to the Associated Press, Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram slipped and fell while boarding the combatant vessel. A second SEAL, Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers, died after jumping to save Ingram.

Trump family lawyer Clifford Robert lashed out this week at a court-appointed monitor who flagged "errors" and "incomplete" information in the Trump Organization's financial disclosures.

As reported by The Messenger, Robert accused Barbara Jones, who was appointed by Judge Arthur Engoron to oversee the Trump Organization's finances, of unfairly smearing Trump with an "unabashedly self-serving" report that she was using to shake down the legal system to justify charging "exorbitant fees" for her services.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Monday, State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg warned Donald Trump that any attempt to dupe his followers into helping him pay the $83.3 million he owes E. Jean Carroll could result in criminal charges.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski, the prosecutor claimed the former president doesn't have a chance of getting out of paying the defamation damages to the New York writer and suggested he might try to divert money donated to his campaign to avoid shelling out millions from his own pocket.

U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) said she couldn’t remember which critical funding bills she has voted for or against, and would have to ask her staff during an interview with a local Miami reporter who repeatedly pressed her on why she keeps taking credit for legislation she voted against.

“Last month you were at FIU [Florida International University] and you presented a check for $650,000 to help small businesses at FIU,” CBS Miami’s Jim DeFede, host of Facing South Florida, told Rep. Salazar in an interview on Sunday.

Appearing on CNN early Monday morning, Roberta Kaplan, the attorney for New York writer E. Jean Carroll laid out her expectations for how Donald Trump will pay the $83.3 million a Manhattan jury awarded her client.

After Carroll described confronting the former president in court — calling him a "nothing" — Kaplan was asked what is next for Trump now that he has to pay up.

According to Kaplan, who is no relation to trial Judge Lewis Kaplan, Trump needs to either pony up the entire amount into a trust while he appeals, or find a bond company to back him, or she is prepared to go after his money if he tries to stall.

"You got awarded over $83 million from this jury," CNN host Poppy Harlow prompted her. "Trump is obviously appealing and he has a right to do that. Big question over the last couple of weeks, does he get a bond or when does your client see that money or some of it?"

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"So he has two choices," the attorney began. "He has to post a bond, which is called an appellate bond, which requires him to put down 20 percent or he has to deposit, which is what he did for the first verdict, the entire amount with the court."

"So $83 million plus 9 percent, so call it $89 million," she added. "If he can't do either of those then we can start collecting right now and we will for sure."

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This Sunday, House Republicans released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, accusing him of "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" and "breach of public trust," according to reports.

In a statement, House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) said the articles "lay out a clear, compelling, and irrefutable case for Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' impeachment," and added that Mayorkas "has willfully and systemically refused to comply with immigration laws enacted by Congress. He has breached the public trust by knowingly making false statements to Congress and the American people, and obstructing congressional oversight of his department."

Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson are each facing a test of their leadership in the immigration showdown.

A bipartisan group of senators are expected to soon deliver text of a bill that would tie stricter border policies to Ukraine aid, and Senate minority leader McConnell must try to keep his 49 members on board while the House speaker struggles to keep Donald Trump's right-wing allies from killing the deal, reported Politico.

Fresh off winning an $83 million verdict against former President Donald Trump, writer E. Jean Carroll appeared on CNN for a wide-ranging interview where she commented, among other things, on the performance of Trump attorney Alina Habba.

During the interview, CNN played Carroll a clip of Habba ranting outside of the courtroom last week and claiming that Judge Lewis Kaplan had improperly blocked her from calling defense witnesses, despite the fact that Trump had already been found liable by a jury for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, and this trial was only to assess what damages Trump owed her.

Appearing on CNN early Monday morning, New York writer E. Jean Carroll called Donald Trump an "emperor with no clothes" whose power has diminished now that he has been held responsible for defaming her.

Accompanied by her lawyer Robbie Kaplan, the recipient of a $83.3 million damage award levied against the former president admitted she was initially nervous about encountering the ex-president in court but then she realized he has become a non-entity.

"There he was, and he was nothing," she told CNN hosts Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly. "Just, no power. He had — he was zero. That was, I was flabbergasted and from then on we just sailed through."

Asked if she made "eye contact with him," she replied, 'Many times," she added, "He's an emperor without clothes. it's like looking at nothing. It was like... nothing."

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"I had been prepared for the worst force, you know, on the Earth today, the most powerful, the most effective, the most money, the richest, the most, you know —— and there he is, he's nothing," she elaborated. "It's just the people around him who give him the power; it's the emperor without clothes."

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CNN's John Avlon on Monday hammered former President Donald Trump for seemingly rooting for a terrorist attack or a stock market crash to help his 2024 bid for the White House.

While talking about some of Trump's recent Truth Social rants, Avlon took particular aim at Trump's claim that there is a "100 percent chance that there will be a major terror attack in the U.S.," which he described as "a crazy thing for the presidential candidate to say."

Attorney George Conway raised the possibility that Donald Trump is suffering from dementia, in addition to other mental disorders.

The conservative attorney told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the $83.3 million penalty imposed by a jury in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case would not stop him from slandering and slurring his enemies because he was an inveterate liar with a host of psychological problems.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss the Republican Party's inability to move on from Donald Trump to their own detriment, Washington Post journalist Jacqueline Alemany stated Republicans are conceding that the 2024 election is not going to go well for them.

As she put it, they are expecting it to be a "bloodbath."

Speaking with the hosts about Trump's interference in a possible border deal that is infuriating some GOP lawmakers, Alemany stated, "The House was pretty quiet last week as they were on recess. We're going to be getting more incoming on that this week, especially after Trump's, you know, trouncing of Nikki Haley in Iowa and then his victory in New Hampshire, where he is becoming a bigger and bigger voice that Republicans can't really ignore and are starting to be -- or will expect to be punished by Trump if they start to speak out against him and go against some of the things that he is advocating for."

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She then went on to explain that Trump's dominance of the party may hurt them going forward.

"But there are the same concerns that we saw in 2022 after the disappointing red wave, as everyone had expected, that ultimately didn't materialize," she elaborated. "Now, Speaker Johnson has essentially a two-vote majority where it's nearly impossible to get anything through, especially if Trump touches it and advises members not to vote for it."

"So I think that, you know, Republicans understand that they're headed for another potential electoral bloodbath, but it's this inevitable thing that they've sort of come to accept so long as Trump is the leader of the party," she added, "That's why you're seeing retirements; people just sort of taking a bow and these nods of resignation."

She later added, "There are concerns, but I don't see anybody doing anything about it."

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