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Donald Trump Jr. and his brother Eric have already testified in the New York fraud trial, and their father, Donald Sr., is scheduled for Monday. Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu doesn't anticipate there's much the former president can do to save himself that his sons haven't already said.

"If I were [Donald Trump's] lawyer, I would not want him to be exposed for it," explained Wu, speaking to Symone Sanders-Townsend. "But he has a tendency to go off. I think it'll start off kind of concise and focused, but I'm sure he'll start to meander and speechify in terms of substance. There isn't that much that he can say that would convince the judge any different from what his two sons of already testified to. He's unlikely to do a better job than they have done, which isn't that great. So, I do look for him to meander off and start to make a lot of statements."

Rolling Stone highlighted a 2022 video of new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the "War on Technology” conference, where he confessed that he and his sons monitor each other's usage of adult videos online.

Johnson was at Benton, Louisiana’s Cypress Baptist Church, according to a video unearthed by social media user Receipt Maven this week. According to Rolling Stone, Johnson was talking about the "accountability software" he installed called Covenant Eyes on devices to ensure he didn't stray into unsavory websites.

Former impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen explained that Donald Trump should be careful about his testimony in court on Monday.

Trump is set to follow his two sons on the stand in the New York fraud trial that could mean the end of the Trump Organization. Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, is scheduled to testify after him.

UPDATE: In response to the story, Fox News categorically denies all of what Laslo and Manríquez said. They told Raw Story in an email that the Capitol Police came to do a "sweep," and it was unannounced, and that the Fox crew didn't know anything about it. They say that it had nothing to do with Laslo taking photos of Hannity's event. This story has been updated to reflect these assertions.

While at the U.S. Capitol last week, Fox News personality Sean Hannity's producer clashed with Raw Story writer Matt Laslo.

An Indianapolis woman was arrested after she drove her car into a building. The plot, however, wasn't an accident, it was a planned attack that has since earned her the legal label of an alleged "terrorist."

According to Fox59, 34-year-old Ruba Almaghtheh was arrested after running her car into the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge. The problem, however, is that the "school" is "extreme and antisemetic," according to the Anti-Defamation League. The Southern Poverty Law Center has also designated them as a hate group.

Judge Aileen Cannon has been criticized over the past several days for a rookie move confusing a court rule with a procedure.

Cannon reprimanded federal prosecutors for flagging that there is an ongoing battle for scheduling between the Florida case and the other federal case in Washington, D.C. But when doing so, she cited the wrong rule relating to something completely different. It has drawn mockery and further questions about Cannon being in over her head for one of the most important cases in the United States.

Donald Trump may "explode" with anger during Monday's testimony in a $250 million fraud trial.

Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers explained to CNN that she expected to see "fireworks" at the hearing.

Appearing on CNN on Sunday afternoon to discuss new polling that shows presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump beating President Joe Biden in a smattering of key states, noted political scientist Larry Sabato brushed the numbers off.

Then he singled out highly suspect numbers of Black voters who indicated a choice for four-time indicted Donald Trump.

Speaking with CNN host Fredricka Whitfield, the founder and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, asserted no one should get shook up about the polling this far from the election, telling the CNN host, "Well, it's a low point for President Biden and, as I said, it's not unusual in the third year. But I'm sure they have specific plans to reach out to those groups. and often those groups don't engage in a major way until the end of a campaign or toward the end of a campaign, that's when they're contacted."

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"So, again, it's early to panic," he continued before pointing out, "I will say this, though. The poll had, I believe, Black voters at 22 percent for Donald Trump. I'm not allowed to bet on elections, Fred, but I sure wish I was because I would love to bet multiple people that the black vote for Trump in the end will be somewhere between 8 and 13 percent max."

"Twenty-two percent? Come on," he scoffed as the CNN host laughed. "I mean, it really causes you to question how representative this poll is of what's going to happen. I believe that it tells you some of what's going to happen if the election were held today and the election isn't being held today — it's a year away."

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During the ABC "This Week" roundtable panel discussion on poll numbers matching up President Joe Biden against presumptive GOP 2024 presidential nominee Donald Trump, host Jonathan Karl complained that there has not been near enough attention paid to the mental decline of Trump.

Addressing comments made by host George Stephanopolous who brought up the polls, Karl stated, "We have seen similar polls like this that which show that in a hypothetical match-up which doesn't seem all that hypothetical anymore in Biden versus Trump. It shows that he [Trump] can actually win and he's leading in these battleground states."

"But, George," he continued, "I have to tell you one thing to consider here is: Trump has been in the news over the last year or so based on these criminal cases — the civil case in New York — but people have not been paying attention to what Trump has become."

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"Trump, since he left the White House, and this is really the theme of my book, has become more detached from reality than he ever was even in the White House," he claimed.

To make his case, he continued, "If you think of where we were in January of 2021, that's the starting point for where a Trump presidency would be next time around. So I think he's had largely, believe it or not, a free ride. Again, the criminal cases we know about, but what he's thinking, what he's doing, he had a speech just the other day in Texas where he referred to the people that are in prison because they attacked the U.S. Capitol and beat up police officers, he called them not prisoners but hostages."

"Trump has become also increasingly confused about things. He sometimes he thinks that he lost to [Barack] Obama in the last election," he offered. "He confuses basic facts and says some rather strange things, but there isn't much attention paid. As we get closer to these primaries, we'll see where not just Trump is based on these criminal cases, but where he is now as a human being."

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Lawyers for Donald Trump are preparing for the fallout if their client is "pinned down" on his asset valuations during testimony on Monday.

Guardian correspondent Hugo Lowell told MSNBC host Alex Witt that the Trump team was concerned about their client's testimony in a $250 million fraud trial in New York.

Donald Trump's well-documented history of going off script, digressions and boasting while under oath may lead to more legal woes if he can't control himself on Monday when he testifies in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom.

The former president is scheduled to take the stand this coming week to defend himself and his Trump Organization in the $250 million financial fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James which could lead to the dissolution of his company.

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) said that he could not prove that his maternal grandparents fled from the Holocaust while Russia was at war with Ukraine.

On Sunday, CNN's Manu Raju noted before his interview with Santos that media outlets have been unable to find evidence of his grandmother fleeing to Brazil.

Reacting to the progress so far in a Colorado courtroom where the first real test over whether Donald Trump can be on the ballot next year, retired conservative Judge Michael Luttig suggested the former president's lawyers have failed to confront a pivotal point in the 14th Amendment.

Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning with host Ali Velshi, Luttig — who has been one of the leading proponents for banning Trump over his actions up to, on and after the Jan. 6 insurrection — claimed there is just as strong case to ban the former president after the Colorado testimony because the former president's lawyers are misreading a key detail in the constitutional amendment.

"Section Three of the 14th Amendment very simply says that any person who has previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the United States, and thereafter engages in an insurrection or rebellion against the constitution of the United States, should to be disqualified from holding any office under the United States'" the retired jurist reminded the MSNBC host.