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Former President Donald Trump went on an overnight social media spree targeting the judge in his criminal trial and actor Robert DeNiro.

The former president spent the evening stewing on Truth Social about closing arguments in his hush money trial, complaining in all-caps rants that New York Justice Juan Merchan refused to permit him to use an “advice of counsel” defense, which would have allowed him to argue that he had relied in good faith on legal advice from attorney Michael Cohen.

A Georgia GOP county election board member is refusing to certify the results of the primary election.

Fulton County elections board member Julie Adams was a holdout in voting to certify the votes, and gave an ultimatum that she would do so only if granted access to detailed voting data, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told a Louisiana radio station talk show that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and some others in the GOP conference force him to spend “half” his day “as a mental health counselor.”

Appearing on KEEL’s “Mike & McCarthy” show, as The Daily Mail reported, Johnson on Tuesday was asked if he and the far-right Christian nationalist congresswoman had “kissed and made up” after she tried to oust him in a dramatically failed “motion to vacate.”

Manhattan prosecutor Joshua Steinglass' attempt to reenact a phone call submitted into evidence during former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial got two thumbs down from one legal expert.

CNN's Elie Honig panned Steinglass' theatrics during closing arguments given to the jury argument, saying he needn't have relied on parlor tricks to prop up testimony from Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen.

With closing arguments being delivered in the criminal hush money trial in Manhattan, former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform to angrily rant that Judge Juan Merchan did not allow him to submit the legal defense that he wanted.

"THE GREATEST CASE I’VE EVER SEEN FOR RELIANCE ON COUNSEL, AND JUDGE MERCHAN WILL NOT, FOR WHATEVER REASON, LET ME USE THAT AS A DEFENSE IN THIS RIGGED TRIAL," Trump wrote. "ANOTHER TERM, ADVICE OF COUNSEL DEFENSE!"

Closing arguments in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial may have stunned some experts with their extreme length, but legal expert Norm Eisen said there was no other way for the prosecution to do it.

Eisen appeared on CNN Tuesday night as Manhattan District Attorney's office prosecutor Joshua Steinglass wrapped his falsifying business records case with an hours-long recount of the evidence presented against Trump.

A panel of former federal prosecutors on MSNBC tore into former President Donald Trump's attorney Todd Blanche for trying to complain to the jury in closing about the prospect of Trump receiving a prison sentence — remarks that Judge Juan Merchan ruled to be completely improper.

"It is not lost on me that Todd Blanche took that chance, probably because Donald Trump wanted him to, with even Tiffany Trump there, two Trump sons are in the courtroom ... the fact that there are three Trump adult children in the room does seem theatrically performative," anchor Joy Reid told former prosecutor Harry Litman.

Former President Donald Trump's onetime lawyer Jenna Ellis can't practice law for three years, according to a new report.

Ellis agreed to the suspension of her Colorado law license after pleading guilty to participating in a conspiracy to overturn Trump's election loss in Georgia in 2020, according to NBC's local affiliate 9 News.

Supreme Court Justice Samual Alito's neighbors say his wife mounted a campaign of harassment that saw her spitting at their car and scaring them enough to call the cops, according to a new report from the New York Times.

This account from Emily Baden is backed up by police records in Fairfax County, Virginia, that show a call logged on Feb. 15, 2021 — about a month after rioters had stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money case in Manhattan does not actually turn on the testimony of the former president's one-time attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, argued prosecutor Joshua Steinglass as the trial neared its close.

Instead, MSNBC analyst Adam Klasfeld explained in a post on X, the real moment the case was over was when former Trump White House communications official Hope Hicks came to the stand, against her will, and delivered evidence against her former boss whom she still admires.

Former President Donald Trump's onetime White House spokesman tried Tuesday to preach against what he described as the one-sided treatment his old boss received in Manhattan criminal court, but CNN anchor Jake Tapper wasn't having it.

Former White House communications official Hogan Gidley tried to claim that Trump's criminal hush money case — in which he stands accused of falsifying business records to conceal deals made ahead of the 2016 presidential election — has been presided over by a compromised judge.