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A pair of longtime Republican operatives heaped dirt on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign, which they deemed the "worst in history" in a scathing analysis published by Politico.

In their essay, Curt Anderson and Alex Castellanos marveled at the way DeSantis raised vast sums of money only to see it squandered as the Florida governor finished 30 percentage points behind former President Donald Trump in the Iowa caucus.

With Republicans trying to undercut President Joe Biden's bid for re-election by pointing out his age, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) is using the same tactic on Donald Trump as she battles him for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

According to a report from the Washington Post, it's working and has knocked the embattled ex-president off message at the same time as he is fending off multiple costly criminal and civil trials.

Donald Trump found another way to misspell Nikki Haley's birth name in an insulting attack on his Republican primary rival.

The former president referred to his one-time United Nations ambassador, whose given name is Nimarata, as "Nimrada" earlier this week, and Friday morning he called her "Nimbra" in an apparent effort to draw attention to her family's Indian heritage.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski was disgusted by Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba's cross examination of E. Jean Carroll.

Trump has already been found liable in a previous trial for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, the longtime author and columnist, but Habba suggested in her questioning that she had accused the former president of raping her decades ago in a bid for fame.

On Friday morning's "Morning Joe," regular MSNBC contributor and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson laughed his way through trying to describe Donald Trump's Fox News interview on Thursday night with personality Sean Hannity.

Moments after MSNBC co-host Joe Scarborough observed that the former president did not "look well" during the interview and has been "shuffling around," Robinson began laughing as MSNBC displayed a chyron reading: "Dazed and Confused: Trump mixes up Biden with Obama, again."

As Robinson told the MSNBC panel, Hannity was forced to try and keep the former president on track and on topic and it was painful to watch.

"Poor Sean Hannity," he joked. "I don't often feel sorry for Sean Hannity, but I did because he had just absolutely teed up the ball, and Donald Trump, you know, hits the lamp on the table or whatever. It's just ridiculous. What more can he do?"

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"You know, the thing about Donald Trump, of course, is that he is pure id in the Freudian sense," he elaborated. "He blurts out whatever is on his mind, so you know what's on his mind is trying to stay out of jail. You can tell from the recent appearances how worried he is that he is going to go to jail; he is going to have to pay massive, massive fines in all these various cases."

"Who knows how much he'll have to pay to E. Jean Carroll?" he asked. "He's going to have consequences for his actions, not just over his presidency, over his long life in which he crosses the line all the time. He is all about crossing the line. He is so worried that he's going to have to go to jail, that this is what he is thinking about more than he is thinking about the campaign. More than anything else he wants to stay out of jail."

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Donald Trump insists presidents enjoy "complete and total immunity" – even when they "cross the line" – but a legal expert said that argument won't get him far in court.

The quadruple-indicted former president compared himself to a "rogue cop" in a Thursday morning post on Truth Social, saying that Americans must simply "live with" wrongdoing by chief executives, but MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann doesn't believe any court will be persuaded by those claims.

A CNN panel on Friday warned that former President Donald Trump's claims that presidents should get "total immunity" from criminal prosecution would inevitably result in a dictatorship.

After reading Trump's Thursday Truth Social post where he said that he deserved complete immunity even if he "crossed the line" into illegal behavior, host Phil Mattingly suggested that Trump was telegraphing that he was "going to do some criming" if reelected.

The man responsible for the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House of Representatives has no plans right now to pull the same trick with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

In an interview with CNN's Abby Phillip hours after the House of Representatives voted by a margin of 314 to 108 and the Senate passed by a margin of 77 to 18 to keep the government open through March, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said there is take-the-good-with-the-bad stance.