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Donald Trump Jr. is headed back to the witness stand again on Thursday as part of the $250 million civil case filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James — but he is not expected to face any questions from his attorneys and attorneys representing his father Donald Trump.

During an appearance on CNN just before the trial was slated to commence, legal analyst Shan Wu suggested that was a good strategy, as the former president's son could inadvertently help the prosecution's case.

CNN host Kate Bolduan asked, "I think we heard that his attorneys — Don Jr's attorneys, Trump's attorneys — all the attorneys working for the Trumps are not questioning Don Jr. Why wouldn't you?"

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"Because you don't want to create an opportunity for further damage. He's basically distancing himself entirely from any knowledge, I'd say note to self: don't put him in charge of your business if he runs things that way," Wu joked. "A graduate of Wharton who says he doesn't understand basic accounting things — so you don't want to put him up there and do any further damage; you want to isolate him the way he is."

"And, ideally he's presented as being irrelevant really to the case and probably everyone is going to take that position," he elaborated. "So ultimately you put the judge in an interesting spot which is the judge already determined there is liability here. The question is how much. Yet everyone is going to be saying we don't know what was really going on, so who did know?"

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted fellow members of her Republican caucus on Thursday because they did not vote for her motion to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

"Tonight's feckless resolution to censure Tlaib was deeply flawed and made legally and factually unverified claims, including the claim of leading an 'insurrection,'" Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said in a statement, prompting Greene to attack him and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO).

An extensive staff handbook for aides to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has been obtained by The Daily Beast — and it reveals that the congresswoman obsesses extensively about her public image and demands a "quota" of time she should be appearing on TV.

According to politics reporter Jake Lahut, a strategy memo she wrote in 2021 describes her as "The freshman thought leader on federal issues," and added, “Nancy is ‘thoughtful’ and ‘hard-working’ on issues important to the Lowcountry.” It encourage staffers to use the nickname "National Nancy."

An Alaska man threatened to kill a U.S. senator, strip their skin off their body and wear it as clothes, according to prosecutors who charged him this week

Fox News reported that Arther Graham, 46, is accused of sending the threatening message to the unidentified senator in September.

Special counsel Jack Smith's team fired back at Donald Trump lawyer's and warned one of the judges against being "manipulated" by the former president's arguments.

A two-page filing from federal prosecutor Jay Bratt made in U.S. District judge Aileen Cannon's court in South Florida sought to bring her attention Thursday morning to a motion filed by Trump's team the night before in his Washington, D.C., case asking U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to pause all proceedings, reported The Messenger.

Police arrested a southwestern Alabama newspaper publisher and a reporter for publishing an article that prosecutors say was based on confidential grand jury evidence.

Don Fletcher reported for the Atmore News on an investigation into the local school board's payments to seven former school employees that Escambia County district attorney says broke the law against revealing grand jury proceedings, and both the reporter and publisher Sherry Digmon were arrested and charged with a felony, reported the Washington Post.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) not been shy about espousing claims associated with Christian nationalism, which is the idea that the United States must be subordinated to Christian law — or more specifically, a right-wing interpretation of Christian law.

He has even proposed a religious test for politicians. And he has tried to imprint those beliefs on the law, even proposing up to ten years of "hard labor" for abortion performed for any reason and at any stage of pregnancy.

In the middle of a wide-ranging interview with Ron DeSantis on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Willie Geist put the Florida governor on the spot over inflammatory comments he made in New Hampshire when he expressed the desire to slit the throats of government bureaucrats.

After being questioned about his faltering campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, Geist took over from co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to call out DeSantis and remind him of the events of Jan 6.

Republican operative Scott Jennings told CNN on Thursday that he is worried about reports that former President Donald Trump's aides are scouting around for lawyers who will be willing to go significantly further than the lawyers in his first administration who resisted his efforts to illegally remain in power after losing the 2020 election.

When asked about the report by host Phil Mattingly, Jennings began by seemingly trying to give a positive interpretation of Trump aides' desires for lawyers who are willing to risk their reputations in the legal community to do the former president's bidding.

The fraud trial against Donald Trump appears to be nearing a conclusion, and the former president has stepped up his attacks on the judge as his likely loss becomes more apparent.

Judge Arthur Engoron has already found Trump liable for fraud in the $250 million lawsuit filed by New York attorney general Letitia James, and the ex-president has ranted almost daily on Truth Social against the judge and his rulings and thrown courthouse tantrums aimed at discrediting the legal process, wrote MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," attorney George Conway asserted that Donald Trump Jr's testimony in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday did nothing to keep the Trump Organization from eventually being dismantled due to years of financial fraud.

On Wednesday, the former president's namesake took the stand in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom and tried to lay blame for the dummied-up valuations of Trump properties on the Trump Organization's accountants while portraying himself as a passive observer.

According to Conway, Trump Jr's testimony probably didn't move Judge Engoron, who has already has ruled he sees criminal conduct by the Trump executives who are at the center of New York Attorney General Letitia James' $250 million civil suit.

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"This isn't going to help," Conway said of the testimony before adding, "The judge can take findings and say, 'I don't believe that he didn't remember that. I don't believe that he was relying on the accountants. The story doesn't make any sense.'"

"It doesn't even matter. he can find beyond a -- all you have to do is find a 50.01 percent, more likely than not, that there was fraud committed, and they knowingly did that," he added. "It's easy to do, and the judge will make credibility findings and say these people are all liars."

Asked if the Trump Org can appeal an adverse ruling, Conway explained, "They probably will get a stay pending appeal, but you have to post a large bond. It may take a couple of years for this to pan out in the appellate courts, but there's already been an interim receiver appointed. They basically can't move assets around, can't hide them — they're stuck."

"That's one of the reasons, I think, why he is so mad.: Donald is upset and showing up at the trial every day," he elaborated. "Basically, he's in financial handcuffs already. Who is going to loan money to these people? They're going to go out of business."

Former President Donald Trump seems intent on defying the gag orders placed on him in his numerous court cases -- and conservative National Review legal analyst Henry Olsen thinks that it's going to land him in hot water.

In his latest column, Olsen explains that gag orders are common in criminal defense cases and that there are legitimate debates to be had about whether the scope of the current orders go too far in restricting a presidential candidate's free speech rights.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) as "sick" for smearing a Biden administration official as ant-Semitic despite his family's history with the Holocaust.

The Missouri Republican clashed with Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a hearing over social media comments about the Hamas-Israel war made by a DHS employee, and the "Morning Joe" host bashed Hawley for taking a "victory lap" after the secretary called him out.