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A lawyer who worked with former President Donald Trump suggested he should use his jury deliberation free time in his criminal hush money trial to challenge Judge Juan Merchan's gag order — but that would get immediately smacked down, retired federal Judge John E. Jones III told CNN's Boris Sanchez on Thursday.

The gag order in the case, where Trump is charged with falsification of business records, prohibits him from disparaging witnesses, court officers, and their families — and he has already been fined for contempt of court and threatened with jail after being found to violate it.

A pundit for a right-wing pro-MAGA news network argued to a New Yorker that Donald Trump "is the president."

During a broadcast outside Trump's hush money trial in New York, Real America's Voice's Ben Bergquam referred to the former president as "President Trump."

Former President Donald Trump ally and former strategist Steve Bannon has a novel idea for Trump's running mate search: he should pick Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's wife.

"Justice Alito's wife is now on my shortlist to be VP," said Bannon on the latest episode of his "War Room" show, first reported by Newsweek. "She's a hammer."

A far-right influencer who targeted drag queen story hours has been charged with possession of child pornography, according to police releases and reports.

The Boston Globe revealed Thursday that Stephen Thomas Farrea, a reported member of the neo-Nazi organization Nationalist Social Club-131, was arrested on Friday.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts rejected Thursday Democratic senators' demands that he discuss reports that a "Stop the Steal" symbol hung in fellow justice Sam Alito's yard after the U.S. Capitol attacks, reports show.

Roberts told Democratic lawmakers their demand — a chance argue Alito's wife's actions threw into question his ability to fairly judge former President Donald Trump's election interference case defense — would tarnish an important precedent, CNN reports.

The Republican Party is fine with guests bringing guns into the area surrounding the convention center, but hard water bottles will be banned during the national convention this year, documents show.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cited a proposed ordinance governing anyone crossing the security line into the immediate vicinity of the Republican National Convention. According to the demands, individuals would be required to leave out all non-plastic containers, tennis balls, and other items.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was ridiculed Thursday after she said people on Jeffrey Epstein's client list should be prosecuted instead of Donald Trump.

"The same demented democrats that are abusing our justice systems to try to make Pres Trump a 'felon' refuse to prosecute Epstein’s client list," Greene wrote on X (formerly Twitter). "Just think about that."

Former President Donald Trump's campaign spokesman Thursday dared a former U.S. Representative and CNN commentator to "prove" his boss had used the n-word in an expletive-ridden social media rant.

"Prove it, b----," Steven Cheung told former Rep. Bakari Sellers (D-SC) on X. "You can’t, because it’s a fake and bulls--- story your dumb a-- is peddling because Biden is hemorrhaging support from Black Americans."

New York Justice Juan Merchan reportedly received death threats after misinformation about the hush money trial was spread by supporters of former President Donald Trump.

NBC News reported multiple conservative news organizations had repeated a false suggestion that the jury verdict did not have to be unanimous in Trump's case.

Former President Donald Trump scored a legal victory in New York as he waited for a panel of jurors to determine the fate of his criminal hush money trial.

The victory was not against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — who prosecuted Trump on charges that he falsified business records to conceal hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election — but a member of his own family.

Donald Trump betrayed his nervousness about the outcome of his criminal trial as he spoke to reporters outside the courtroom, according to one of his former staffers.

The jury on Wednesday began deliberations on 34 counts of falsifying business records, and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNN he noticed some quirks in the former president's body language that indicated he was worried he would be found guilty.

Fox News legal analyst Andrew McCarthy said that jury notes in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial suggested that jurors are buying into the prosecution's arguments in the case.

During a Thursday Fox News segment, host Kayleigh McEnany asked McCarthy about the jury's messages to Justice Juan Merchan.

Sen. Marcio Rubio (R-FL) stepped in it on Wednesday after he ran with a highly misleading social media post from a Fox News personality about the jury instructions given in Donald Trump's hush money trial.

After the jury began deliberations after Judge Juan Merchan elaborated on their duties, Fox's John Roberts posted on X, "Judge Merchan just told the jury that they do not need unanimity to convict. 4 could agree on one crime, 4 on a different one, and the other 4 on another. He said he would treat 4-4-4 as a unanimous verdict."