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Reacting to Donald Trump telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that he would act like a dictator the first day after he won re-election to the presidency, former Trump lawyer Micheal Cohen suggested it was not a joke and that there would be little in the way of keeping a newly-elected Trump from running roughshod over the Constitution.

Speaking with MSNBC host Ali Velshi, the former Trump "fixer" bluntly stated that his former boss is "dead serious" about using the power of the presidency to hunt down his enemies, and that Mexico and Canada may not be safe from annexation if he has his way.

"Don't listen to what Michael Cohen is saying, don't listen to what Ali Velshi is saying or any of the pundits you see on television," Cohen began. "Listen to what Donald is saying."

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"Yes, I have talked about this going back three years, two years, and then when my book 'Revenge' came out, it's all laid out that Donald Trump does not want to be president of the United States. How many times did I say it even on this show?" he continued. "He wants to be the dictator, the monarch, the fuhrer, the king — that is what he aspires to be. And when he says that he is going to be a dictator one day, I want to ask you this question, and I want to ask your viewers this question: when was the last time somebody became a dictator for just one day and then decided to give it up? The answer of course is never."

"He's being Donald. He is being dead serious," Cohen later added.

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During an appearance on MSNBC early Saturday morning, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of meddling in upcoming Jan 6 insurrection trials by releasing altered footage of the storming of the Capitol.

Speaking with host Jonathan Capehart, the legal analyst agreed that Johnson's efforts to have the faces of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists blurred in the released video footage amounts to an attempt to "taint" the jury pool.

"House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans on blurring the faces of Capitol rioters in new footage. Is he publicly sending the message that the January 6th rioters did nothing wrong? My concern is, my question is: is he potentially tainting the jury pool by doing this?"

"He is potentially tainting the jury pool," Kirschner confirmed, "by what he just decided to do by releasing video of folks who may have been involved in criminal activity."

Adding, "Now let me hasten to add, not everybody who went to the Capitol I'm quite sure on January six necessarily committed a crime. Mike Johnson doesn't know, he wasn't there, he cannot account for what every single person did. He just said, I'm going to blur their faces to protect both the innocent and the guilty. That, to me, feels deeply unpatriotic and disrespectful of the police officers, many of whom were beaten to within an inch of their lives that day."

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"Here is the thing: all of this will be addressed in jury selection. Every single juror will be asked, 'did you see anything? Any news footage? Do you have any opinions, strong opinions, that you cannot set aside and decide this case based only on the evidence that you see introduced in the trial itself,'" he added.

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During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former Republican party campaign consultant Rick Wilson took multiple shots at the members of Donald Trump's inner circle who are reportedly eyeing high-profile positions in his administration should he become president again.

With host Phang sharing graphics of potential Trump VP candidates and cabinet members, which included fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson, indicted Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Clark, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Wilson suggested it appears to be a gaggle of the "dumb, dangerous and deviant."

Speaking with the host, Wilson joked, "Because Donald Trump exists in an entirely separate media bubble now, he exists in a world where those people are the pictures of his America First movement when, in fact, these are people that you would not put in charge of a Waffle House."

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Continuing in the vein he added, "These are really strange people. These are people that Americans, if they take a long look at it, will be repulsed by what these folks believe. But they meet the one standard Donald Trump has set: that it is absolute loyalty, absolute obedience to Trump."

"There's nothing about these people that reflects the excuses the old Washington hands made in 2016 of, 'Oh, we'll have some people who know what they are doing, they'll steer the ship, they will help him do the right thing.'"

"None of that is real," he exclaimed. "These people are going to go into the office to punish their political enemies, to deport 10 million people, to ignore the rule of law and burn down the United States government."

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If convicted in any of his four pending criminal trials, incarcerating former President Donald Trump would present a massive logistical challenge for the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Experts have varying opinions on how a former president of the United States would be imprisoned.

Newsweek recently interviewed four different criminal justice experts who weighed in on how Trump's prison sentence could be handled by the BOP and the US Secret Service (USSS). Because the USSS is required to provide him with a personal security detail for the rest of his life as an ex-president, trial attorney Tray Gober told Newsweek that Trump's incarceration would be "unique."

Reacting to a late Friday ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld portions of a gag order imposed on Donald Trump by Judge Tanya Chutkan, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance noted the 68-page ruling contained a buried footnote that won't make the former president happy.

Speaking with the host, Vance praised the ruling saying it protects courthouse employees from harassment while at the same time preserving Trump's 1st Amendment rights.

Having said that, she pointed to the footnote which attorney Phang also had noticed, calling it an "Easter egg."

"Yes, it is really interesting," Vance replied. "So, you know as you point out, it is a long opinion and we are all reading it late at night and suddenly, I think page 48 in, the court simply drops one sentence where it says, and it is having a conversation about Trump's request that the trial be delayed until after the election."

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"The court says, just in a very conclusory sentence, of course that is not necessary because the trial will be long over before the election takes place," she explained. "Some people might characterize that is hopeful thinking."

"There still a number of appeals that need to be concluded before this case can go to trial. But at least in the mind of these three judges, that trial is on pace for the March day that Judge Chutkan has set," she elaborated.

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In a column for MSNBC, Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito was called out by a legal scholar for his sloppy use of unvetted outside opinions to arrive at legal conclusions he's seeking that, in turn, have a wide-ranging impact on American life.

Using a bombshell report from Politico that Supreme Court justices are increasingly relying on the so-called "friend of the court" briefs known as amicus briefs in place of legal scholarship, University of Texas Law School Professor Steve Vladek warned it is an affront to how the nation's highest court is supposed to work.

Just after Friday midnight, Donald Trump weighed in on the Republican party debate he skipped on Wednesday, grading out the performances of the four challengers battling him for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

Not content with that, he snarled at former Fox News host Megyn Kelly who served as moderator and with whom he clashed when she moderated another GOP debate in 2015 during his first run for the presidency.

She may have wronged The Don.

Tim Parlatore, who opted out of the ex-president's legal team in May, shortly before Trump was indicted in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, accused Donald Trump's attorney, Alina Habba of making reckless public disclosures that he claims might have breached the coveted attorney-client privilege.