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With the testimony of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump concluded in the $250 million financial fraud trial being conducted in Judge Arthur Engoron's New York courtroom, former Department of Justice official Harry Litman told an MSNBC host that it was a bruising week for the Trump family — and things don't look like they will get much better on Monday when the trial reconvenes.

Speaking with host Chris Jansing, the legal analyst suggested that the entire Trump family, whose fortunes are tied up in the beleaguered Trump Organization, likely realize the trial is not going their way.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg swiftly demolished newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over his anti-gay views on CNN Friday.

Buttigieg, himself an openly gay man and a married father, suggested that Johnson should look to the Biden administration if he wants to see actual policies that promote family values.

District judge Aileen Cannon issued a testy response to the special counsel's warning about Donald Trump.

A prosecutor on special counsel Jack Smith's team made a filing Thursday morning bringing to Cannon's attention a motion filed in Trump's case in Washington, D.C., case seeking a pause to all proceedings and warned the judge not to be "manipulated" by the former president's arguments – and she didn't seem to appreciate the suggestion.

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) got more than he bargained for on Friday when he did an interview with CNN's Kate Bolduan.

At the start of the interview, Norman tried to make the case that the Biden administration was "weak" on Israel because Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had called for a temporary pause in combat operations so that more hostages could be freed.

Reacting to one of Donald Trump's highly paid lawyers complaining about Judge Arthur Engoron and his senior clerk passing notes during the $250 million financial fraud trial, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade couldn't help but laugh while appearing on MSNBC.

On Thursday, Trump attorney Christopher Kise complained about the notes being shared by the jurist and law clerk, Allison Greenfield, which led to a fiery exchange in which Engoron accused the Trump legal team of misogyny.

A court transcript released Friday reveals the errant remark made by a Donald Trump lawyer that angered the judge presiding over the former president's fraud trial.

Eric Trump's testimony was briefly upended when defense attorney Chris Kise commented about Judge Arthur Engoron's principal law clerk, which drew a rebuke about the former president and his legal team's "misogynist" obsession with the courtroom staffer, reported NBC News.

Eric Trump insisted during testimony in a New York fraud trial that his father's Mar-a-Lago resort was a private residence and not a club.

State attorney Andrew Amer questioned Donald Trump's second son for more than an hour Friday morning about the valuation of the former president's property in Palm Beach, Florida, and he testified that he was unaware that the club had been valued for tax purposes as a commercial property that was used as a social club, reported ABC News.

A man who was appointed to the State Department during Donald Trump's administration was handed a prison sentence Friday for his participation in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, NBC News reported.

Federico Klein was sentenced to 70 months in prison after being convicted of eight felonies as well as misdemeanor offenses.

Republicans in the United States Senate are finally getting fed up with the antics of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who has been singlehandedly blocking the promotions of military officers over his objections to the Pentagon's abortion health care policy.

Rolling Stone reports that many Republicans have grown tired of Tuberville, who also sparked a firestorm of controversy earlier this year when he decried efforts to purge the United States military of white nationalists.