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​'Showing support for insurrectionists': CNN panel trashes Sam Alito for upside-down flag

The New York Times reported on Thursday that an upside-down American flag was seen flying at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's house after President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election, and a CNN panel on Friday bashed him for a total lack of professionalism.

In the wake of Biden's victory, many Trump supporters flew American flags upside down to signal distress in the United States, and panelist David Frum argued that having an upside down flag at the house of a Republican-appointed Supreme Court justice is "going to raise a lot of doubts about the legitimacy of the court," especially when it comes to the upcoming case on presidential immunity.

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Will Trump testify at trial? ‘Absolutely’ is now ‘no decision’ yet'

The State of New York's prosecution of Donald Trump is nearing it end, as Judge Juan Merchan announced late Thursday afternoon final arguments could begin on Tuesday. But one question remains: Will the ex-president who is facing 34 felony charges in the election interference, falsification of business records, and hush money cover-up case, testify in his defense?

Just over one month ago Trump was asked that question. He quickly responded, "Yeah I would testify, absolutely."

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Watch: Chaos erupts after MTG lobs insult at Dem lawmaker's 'fake eyelashes'

A House Oversight Committee hearing erupted into a war of words on Thursday when Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) exchanged slights as they discussed contempt proceedings for Attorney General Merrick Garland for blocking the release of audio tapes related to an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

In this case, their furious exchange was prompted by Greene's decision to personally insult Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX).

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Inside Jack Smith's 'big gamble'

Many legal experts have openly expressed their criticism of U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who's presiding over Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

The Florida judge's bias towards the former president, experts say, was proven when she postponed his trial indefinitely earlier this month.

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'That's the whole point': CNN's Kaitlan Collins shuts down Trump lawyer on hush money case

Kaitlan Collins jousted with former Donald Trump attorney William Brennan over the specifics over how prosecution star witness Michael Cohen was repaid by his future commander-in-chief boss for buying the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

Collins confronted Brennan, who served as an esquire for Trump's payroll corporation tax fraud case, about the circumstances involving Cohen's payback.

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'Telepomp proply': Lauren Boebert mocked after comment on Trump's 'cognitive dissonance'

Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert on Thursday was ridiculed on social media after proudly proclaiming that Donald Trump has undergone "testing for his cognitive dissonance," while making a slip-up of her own.

Boebert, who earlier in the day made an appearance at a criminal court in New York in support of the former president, said during a hearing that, "President Trump, when he was in office, underwent testing for his cognitive dissonance, for his ability to function as president of the United States." The lawmaker then went on to attempt to say a line about Joe Biden, but stumbled on the word "teleprompter."

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Judicial insider blows up Justice Alito's attempt to 'blame his wife' for latest scandal

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was quick to blame his wife when it was discovered that a MAGA symbol was displayed in the justice's front yard as the high court was considering an election case, but that excuse doesn't hold water, according to a federal courts insider.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance broached the subject on her Civil Discourse Substack blog Thursday evening. She highlighted the recent controversy, which saw an upside down flag flying in the Supreme Court justice's yard during a critical period of consideration.

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Trump tries to 'throw a bomb' by 'daring' judge to put him in jail as trial ends: expert

Former President Donald Trump is trying a last-ditch attempt to throw his criminal hush money trial in Manhattan into chaos, legal expert Lisa Rubin argued on MSNBC Thursday evening.

Specifically, she said, he is trying to put Judge Juan Merchan in a position where he has to put him in jail.

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'Clown show': Historian slams Trump for inviting 'surrogates' to violate gag order for him

Former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial in Manhattan has been increasingly marked by his Republican allies making trips into New York City to give speeches outside the courthouse, condemning everyone from the prosecutors to the judge to the judge's family — often attacking people who are off limits for Trump himself to attack due to the gag order in place against him. A few of them, like Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), have even admitted they are there to attack witnesses and court officers' families because Trump cannot.

This whole spectacle, which features the lawmakers and Trump allies decrying the trial as a "sham" and politically motivated, is an embarrassment for the Republican Party, historian Douglas Brinkley told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Thursday evening — a political theater moment with the participants vying for attention.

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'Biggest failure': Expert reveals how Trump's lawyers are ignoring an obvious defense

Michael Cohen endured a new barrage of questioning under cross-examination at former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial in Manhattan on Thursday — and Trump defense counsel Todd Blanche manage to land one hit by establishing one of Cohen's recalled calls to Trump in 2016 wasn't actually to Trump, and wasn't necessarily about adult film star Stormy Daniels.

But for all of that, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told MSNBC's Ari Melber that evening, the defense has actually dropped the ball in a big way, by failing to bring up one of the most important lines of questioning that could put doubt in the minds of the jurors.

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'Why would it be in Trump's books?' Stormy Daniels' lawyer shows how ex-president 'did it'

Adult film star Stormy Daniels' attorney is convinced the power behind buying the silence of his client is Donald Trump and the proof is there.

Clark Brewster appearing on CNN posited just why the 45th president is culpable in the criminal hush money case.

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'Let me slow you down': MSNBC host Ari Melber turns the tables on Trump lawyer

Former President Donald Trump's payroll attorney William Brennan launched into a tirade on MSNBC Thursday attacking Michael Cohen, the ex-Trump lawyer who is serving as the final and most significant witness for the prosecution in the former president's Manhattan criminal hush money trial, saying he wasn't to be trusted.

However, MSNBC anchor Ari Melber, himself an attorney, stopped him cold with a simple point.

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Ex-prosecutor explains one 'big problem' for Trump's defense team in criminal case

Donald Trump's defense will likely have to come up with an alternate scenario if the former president is going to escape conviction in his hush money cover-up case, a former federal prosecutor said on Thursday.

"So that's their big problem is sort of taking small pieces and stringing together a narrative that actually holds water," said former top prosecutor for ex-FBI chief Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, during a panel discussion on with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace.

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