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Donald Trump's "genius factor" could have added billions of dollars to the actual value of his property portfolio, an expert witness told the former president's fraud trial Monday.

Frederick Chin, who was called by the defense as an expert in real estate valuation, said Trump was using the "as if" investment value to put a price on his holdings, and not the "as is" market value, ABC News reported.

Among the three richest people on the planet, mega-billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received some praise last week for announcing approximately $120 million in donations to a number of groups fighting the scourge of homelessness in the United States.

"It's a privilege to support these orgs in their inspiring mission to help families regain stability," Bezos wrote in an Instagram post touting the multiple grants to 38 individual nonprofits in 22 states.

When Donald Trump recently revived his quest to overturn the Affordable Care Act of 2010, he not only gave Democratic strategists and organizers an issue to use against him in 2024 — he also forced Republicans to have a conversation that many of them were hoping to avoid.

Efforts to overturn the ACA proved to be a major liability for Republicans in 2018 and 2020, and a KFF poll released earlier this year found that 59 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the law.

Former Congressman George Santos slurred one of his former New York Republican colleagues as a "drunk and a bully" Monday.

Santos, who was expelled Friday and has threatened to expose alleged misdeeds by other lawmakers, suggested that Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY), who was seen in a video made public last week yelling at one of his staffers, mistreated members of his camp.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) on Monday unveiled another purported "bombshell" revelation of corruption by President Joe Biden — but critics say that, like many of his past efforts, this one failed to live up to the hype.

At issue is a series of payments made by Hunter Biden's business, Owasco PC, to President Joe Biden back in 2018.

A CNN panel discussing Gov. Ron DeSantis' flailing campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination noted that Donald Trump remains relentless in his attacks on the Florida governor.

Speaking with "Inside Politics" host Dana Bash, CNN political analyst Kristen Holmes suggested that the former president seems to want to damage DeSantis' political future irretrievably.

The New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division is expected to hear arguments on Monday afternoon after Donald Trump asked to appeal a gag order in his $250 million civil fraud trial.

Earlier on Monday, attorneys for Trump requested permission to file for appeal after a lower appeals court reinstated the gag order last week.

Momentum is building to kick out controversial Michigan Republican Party chair Kristina Karamo, according to a report Monday.

A majority of the GOP's state committee skipped a virtual meeting she had convened and instead took part in another organized by a group of discontented party leaders, leaving Karamo unable to achieve the quorum required to conduct business, reported MLive.

GOP Governor Ron DeSantis often talks about what he calls "the free state of Florida" but Florida Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody has declared the Sunshine State's public schools, including its libraries, do not exist to promote the free exchange of ideas, but rather, to "convey the government's message."

In a legal brief, the State of Florida argues it has a First Amendment right to remove LGBTQ books, or any book, from public schools and libraries, USA Today's Tallahassee Democrat reports.

Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon called for a purging of people who are not Christian nationalists if Donald Trump wins a second term as president.

On his Monday War Room broadcast, Bannon celebrated author Tim Alberta's warnings about Christian nationalism on MSNBC.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case on Monday ordered the unsealing of documents filed by special counsel Jack Smith, who had asked they be kept under wraps because they could unveil some of the government's plans in the trial.

Judge Aileen Cannon said she was “mindful of the strong presumption in favor of public access to judicial documents” when she ordered the unsealing, which makes public several of the motions filed by Smith in the case accusing Trump of keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

An ally of former President Donald Trump wants to bring the entire United States Department of Justice directly under his control should he win a second term in office.

The Atlantic's McKay Coppins has written a lengthy piece examining the types of people Trump will bring in for his second White House, and it appears most of them will be dedicated loyalists such as Stephen Miller and Richard Grenell.

The Koch network's endorsement of Nikki Haley for the Republican presidential nomination has left the conservative group internally roiling, according to a report.

Chris Maidment was "terminated" as director of grassroots operations in New Hampshire for Americans for Prosperity after going public with his opposition to the endorsement, and he told NBC News that other rank-and-file members of the organization told leadership they would leave if they backed Haley.