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Rudy Giuliani's financial troubles persist and new reporting claims that the former "America's Mayor" might have his Palm Beach condo foreclosed on due to unpaid taxes.

The Palm Beach Post reports that the failure to pay property taxes could result in Giuliani losing his beach-side home. Giuliani owes more than $84,000, the report explained, and a firm has already purchased the tax sale certificates to proceed with foreclosure in the spring of 2024.

An elderly Jewish man was injured and later died after a confrontation with a pro-Palestinian protester during a gathering where pro-Israel protesters and pro-Palestinian protesters faced off on opposites sides of the street in the Southern California neighborhood of Westlake Village this Monday, CBS News reported.

Paul Kessler, 69, was taken to the hospital after the incident and died a day later. The Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office classified his death as a homicide.

Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, declared that New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron does not have a "respect for authority" after he cautioned her client during testimony on Monday.

In a Tuesday interview on Fox News, host Bill Hemmer asked Habba about Trump's $250 million fraud trial.

A candidate for a Texas city council seat has been charged with two counts of child pornography -- and he was arrested just hours before the election, Newsweek reported.

Brad Benson, who was running for Place #4 on the Granbury City Council, was arrested on Nov. 6. The Republican Party of Hood County withdrew its support for him shortly after.

Former President Donald Trump took the witness stand in his New York civil fraud trial on Monday, during which he snapped at state attorneys and denied wrongdoing while bragging about his net worth in a case centering on his alleged systemic false valuations of Trump Organization properties.

All of this is par for the course from the former president, wrote Trump-skeptic conservative commentator Charlie Sykes for The Bulwark on Tuesday morning.

Special counsel Jack Smith this week responded to Donald Trump's claim that he was engaged in a selective and "vindictive prosecution."

In a motion filed on Tuesday, Smith fired back at Trump's motion to dismiss his election subversion case.

David Schoen, an attorney who represented former President Donald Trump during his impeachment proceedings, appeared on CNN Tuesday morning to discuss his erstwhile client's testimony in the New York civil fraud case — only for anchor Poppy Harlow to swiftly drop the fact-check hammer on him.

"One of the president's attorneys said, 'In 33 years I have not had a witness testify better,'" said Harlow. "Do you agree?"

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said on Tuesday that she believed former President Donald Trump slipped up while under oath this week and gave New York Attorney General Letitia James information that her team would use to hammer him in their fraud lawsuit against him.

While appearing on CNN, Haberman said that she "didn't expect Trump to take ownership of the [financial] statements the way that he did," which she said stood in contrast to his two eldest sons, both of whom shifted culpability for the statements to the company's accounting team.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance made the case that, if Donald Trump's attorneys thought letting their client rant and rave in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom on Monday was an effective defense strategy, they were sorely mistaken.

Speaking with MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, the former prosecutor predicted the penalty the former president and his family will pay will be the dissolution of the Trump Organization in the $250 million financial fraud trial.

Donald Trump found his status as a former president was no match for a judge's authority inside his own courtroom.

The 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner testified Monday in a New York City courtroom in the $250 million fraud trial against his family owned business, and New York Supreme Court justice Arthur Engoron repeatedly reprimanded Trump for veering off topic and delivering campaign-style rants instead of answering prosecutors' questions – which CNN columnist Stephen Collinson said must have come as a shock.

Donald Trump took the witness stand in his $250 million fraud lawsuit, but MSNBC's Chuck Rosenberg said the former president didn't do himself any favors in court.

Judge Arthur Engoron repeatedly admonished the twice-impeached ex-president to answer the questions as asked by prosecutors and stop giving "irrelevant" testimony more suited to a campaign rally than a courtroom, and the legal analyst told "Morning Joe" that Trump was trying to fight the law on two fronts.

Former President Donald Trump and his attorneys are hoping to overturn Judge Arthur Engoron's rulings against the Trump Organization on appeal, but former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg said that those hopes appear to be dead on arrival.

Appearing on CNN, Greenberg broke down the Trump team's legal strategy for mounting an appeal by arguing that the valuations listed in financial statements provided to banks were not really to be taken at face value, while also arguing those statements were still good-faith estimates of the former president's properties.