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Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's attorney, put his own spin on the Access Hollywood tape that threw the Trump 2016 campaign into turmoil.

During closing arguments in the hush money trial on Tuesday, Blanche sought to downplay the importance of the Access Hollywood tape, where Trump was heard bragging that he could sexually assault women.

MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang criticized a recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that refused to acknowledge the danger Donald Trump poses to law enforcement.

In a social media post, Phang responded to Cannon's denial of special counsel Jack Smith's motion to modify Trump's bond conditions after he suggested Department of Justice agents were part of a plot to assassinate him.

Former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone warned Americans about the dangers of a second Donald Trump presidency during a press event outside of the courthouse in Manhattan where the former president is currently on trial for alleged illegal efforts to cover up hush-money payments.

Although actor Robert DeNiro took a starring role during the event, Fanone made his own case for why putting Trump back in the White House would lead to a dark future for the United States.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied a request from special counsel Jack Smith to modify Donald Trump's bond conditions in his classified documents case.

In a motion last week, Smith asked Cannon to modify the conditions to clarify that Trump cannot endanger law enforcement officials investigating his case.

Historian and filmmaker Ken Burns used his graduation commencement address at Brandeis University over the weekend to give students a warning about the prospects of reelecting former President Donald Trump.

In his address, Burns said that alarm bells should go off in students' heads whenever they hear Trump-style demagoguery that tries to divide Americans into competing factions of warring tribes.

Donald Trump's defense lawyer may have committed a ruinous blunder during his closing argument.

Attorney Todd Blanche characterized former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who was a key witness for the prosecution, as dishonest and untrustworthy but portrayed former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker as truthful — and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that was essentially a gift to prosecutors.

Actor Robert DeNiro got into a verbal argument with a Donald Trump supporter on a New York City street outside the former president's trial.

As Trump sat in a nearby Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, DeNiro held a press conference outside the courthouse on behalf of the Biden-Harris campaign. He was accompanied by former Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, who fought with rioters on Jan. 6, 2021.

The controversial attorney Roy Cohn, who served as chief counsel for Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) and the House Unamerican Activities Committee during the 1950s and went on to represent a young Donald Trump during the 1970s, died of AIDS-related complications on August 2, 1986.

But 38 years later, Cohn remains a major inspiration to Trump, now 77, at a time when he is facing four criminal indictments.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Stormy Daniels' former lawyer Michael Avenatti of his conviction for attempting to extort Nike.

The court left in place Avenatti’s extortion and fraud convictions for pressuring the sportswear company to pay his client, a youth basketball coach who claimed the company made unlawful payments to high school athletes, and hire him and another lawyer to investigate the matter, reported NBC News.

Former President Donald Trump all but ended the re-election hopes of embattled House Freedom Caucus chair Bob Good (R-VA) with an endorsement of his primary opponent John McGuire, a former Navy SEAL and state legislator who was present at the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

It's a humiliating blow to Good, a far-right lawmaker who just this month schlepped to New York City to stand in front of the Manhattan courthouse where Trump is being criminally tried and attack the family of the judge. And it leaves him with few remaining allies after he was refused assistance in his primary by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who ironically came to power in part because Good joined a handful of renegade Republicans to oust his predecessor Kevin McCarthy.

President Joe Biden's campaign was expected to hold a press conference on Tuesday outside a courthouse where former President Donald Trump is facing a hush money trial.

A notice from the Biden-Harris campaign said the event would begin at 10:15 AM and include "special guests."

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers were back in court in Manhattan Tuesday, trying to wrap up his defense in the hush money trial. But Trump appears to have his own ideas about how to defend himself.

As Trump's attorneys were doing their job, the former president took to his Truth Social account and — much as he has done after trial arguments on several days — fired off a series of quotes from various right-wing commentators attacking the trial and supporting his innocence.