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A Democratic state legislator from Brooklyn has been accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman during a meeting at her house about Haiti relief money, reported the Associated Press on Monday.

"The lawsuit, filed Friday, accuses Sen. Kevin Parker of assaulting her in 2004, during his first term. The woman said she had been working with Parker to coordinate the delivery of items and donations to Haiti after a devastating flood that affected the country and other neighboring Caribbean Islands," reported Bobby Cuza. "The suit was filed under the Adult Survivors Act, a special state law that created a yearlong suspension of the usual time limit for accusers to sue. The law is set to expire after Thanksgiving."

If they've seen the light and want to stop Trump 2.0, they need to "roll up their sleeves" and start speaking out.

Former Republican strategist and Bullwark writer Tim Miller is taking to task some of the folks who once paid allegiance to Donald Trump and have since determined he poses a threat to the presidency and the country.

Former President Donald Trump's one-time White House lawyer, Ty Cobb, reiterated to CNN's Erin Burnett on Monday that if the gag order issued by Judge Tanya Chutkan in the 2020 election interference case is reinstated by the D.C. Appeals Court, the former president's "narcissism" could push him over the line and land him in jail.

This came after a day of oral argument about reinstating the order, where a three-judge panel appeared broadly skeptical of Trump's lawyer.

Pillow magnate Mike Lindell said that he had been vindicated after a Georgia ruling noted that the plaintiffs concerned about election security weren't conspiracy theorists and the trial could move forward.

At issue was an opinion by a judge appointed by former President Barack Obama, who explained that there was reason to believe that there were security issues related to voting machines. Part of her conclusion was based on the Coffee County incident in which Republicans got into the building holding the machines, broke into them, and stole data.

Former House Select Committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) tore into the Republicans spreading a fresh round of conspiracy theories about the Capitol attack on MSNBC Monday, following the move by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to release the entirety of the Capitol security footage of the incident.

In particular, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) promoted the idea that Kevin Lyons, a rioter sentenced to four years in prison for assaulting police, was an FBI plant because he could supposedly be seen flashing a police badge at agents. The object in his hand was actually a vape pen, and many other far-right figures who pushed the claim later scrambled to delete it — but Lee still has not.

A key senator is accusing Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, of obstructing a congressional investigation into its consumer practices — and issuing a subpoena to compel information from the company.

"Live Nation has egregiously stonewalled my Subcommittee’s inquiry into its abusive consumer practices — making the subpoena necessary," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

There is little chance of Donald Trump winning his appeal of the gag order in the 2020 election case, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner contends. But the gag order could be more narrowly designed.

The heated debate over the Republican candidate's right to free speech versus his ability to endanger courtroom officials via social media screeds stretched well beyond the anticipated 40 minutes Kirschner estimated it would take, he told MSNBC's Alicia Menendez on Monday.

Trump keeps yelling "Fire!" into crowded theaters, according to former RNC chair Michael Steele.

"It just tells you how Donald Trump has twisted everything into a knot — this is all deliberate behavior," former RNC chair Michael Steele told an MSNBC host. "It's all about trying to bend the system to his will, to his direction."

Donald Trump released a one-page document from the physician he's used since leaving office Monday — in which a glowing review of the former president's health and wellness is given.

The man who prides himself on eating fast food has reportedly lost weight since not working in the White House, New Jersey doctor Bruce Aronwald wrote in the letter.

Harrison Floyd, a co-defendant in Donald Trump's Georgia election subversion case, fired back on Monday after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis asked a judge to revoke his bond.

In a Fulton County Superior Court filing, Floyd accused Willis of wanting his bond revoked as a "retaliatory measure." The document was obtained by The Messenger.

Former President Donald Trump's attorney John Sauer did not fare well at Monday's appeal court hearing on the gag order imposed in the 2020 election interference case — and on MSNBC's "Katy Tur Reports," legal analyst Lisa Rubin broke down how it went so wrong for his arguments.

"The idea of violence — the Trump team argued that you can't just say that there's going to be violence without there actually being violence," said Tur. "What Donald Trump has said regarding this case hasn't resulted in anything concrete, and this is what they're arguing."