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Celebrity influencer Kim Kardashian visited the White House in 2018 to seek then-President Donald Trump's help with her sentencing reform campaign for non-violent offenders. She approached Trump again in 2020 to advocate for criminal justice reform — but found her welcome had significantly soured, Insider reported.

According to a new book by ABC News' Jonathan Karl, Kardashian called Trump months after he left the White House to get his endorsement for a clemency plea, only to have Trump angrily accuse her of voting for Joe Biden.

An Arizona Republican is refusing to require clergy to report confessions of child abuse despite a horrific case involving the Mormon Church.

A Bisbee father of six admitted to his bishop during a counseling session that he was raping his then-5-year-old daughter, but court records show that Bishop John Herrod, and then his replacement Bishop Robert “Kim” Mauzy, were advised by attorney Merrill Nelson not to alert anyone outside the church — and the man then started raping his 6-week-old daughter, reported the Arizona Republic.

The Wall Street Journal on Monday trashed Donald Trump's proposal to create a new taxpayer-funded online university to "compete directly" for college students.

The former president announced what the newspaper called "Trump University 2.0" in a Truth Social video, but which would actually be called the "American Academy," but the Journal's editorial board questioned the need for such an institution and cast doubt on its funding.

One of the lesser known people swept up in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' RICO indictment related to former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election result was Stephen Lee, an Illinois-based pastor accused of trying to pressure a Georgia election worker into falsely confessing to committing fraud.

The Washington Post reports that, unlike some other defendants such as attorneys Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, Lee is vowing to never seek a plea deal and will take his chances in court — even if it lands him in prison.

Lawyers for the Trump Organization began their defense in the $250 million financial fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James Monday, with Judge Arthur Engoron allowing them to present a slide show extolling the virtues and successes of the company.

However, as Forbes editor and author of "White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business," Dan Alexander noted on X that the Trumps were up to their old tricks by a exaggerating a property's size — a central factor in the state's civil lawsuit.

Former President Donald Trump unleashed another angry rant at the judge and prosecutors participating in his $250 million fraud trial Monday.

Despite the death of his sister, who was discovered in her New York home earlier in the day, Trump focused his social media messages on his mounting legal problems while his son, Donald Trump Jr., was on the stand.

Newsmax hosts Shaun Kraisman and Emma Rechenberg grilled so-called "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley about how his conviction for Jan. 6 crimes would impact his run for Congress.

During an interview on Monday, Kraisman noted that Chansley was running for Congress even though some voters may be turned off by the costume he wore when he breached the Capitol on Jan. 6.

As the $250 million Trump Organization financial fraud trial enters the defense stage, MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos expressed surprise at the strategy that Donald Trump's legal team appears to be using — and suggested it says a lot about where they think the trial is headed.

According to the attorney, it is never ever a good idea for a client or a lawyer to criticize the presiding judge — in this case Judge Arthur Engoron — either in the courtroom or to the press after the day's proceedings conclude.