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Former President Donald Trump's MAGA lawmaker allies aren't helping his criminal hush money case by showing up at the courthouse — and they may be hurting him by angering the judge and the jury, one former Trump attorney says.

Tim Parlatore spoke with CNN anchor Brianna Keilar Wednesday after several GOP lawmakers attended the New York City trial, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) even at one point trying to hold a press conference inside the courthouse and being rebuffed.

A caller on C-SPAN's morning show explained that she had left the Republican Party because its lawmakers "do nothing but interfere" and "endorse everything [Donald] Trump does."

During Wednesday's Washington Journal program, a caller from Maryland named Mary said she used to be a Republican but changed her party affiliation to Independent.

Former President Donald Trump's acceptance of two presidential debate invitations spurred immediate mockery about teleprompters, fictional serial killers and a common medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Trump and Biden have officially agreed to two debates on June 27 — before the Republican National Convention is expected to nominate the former president as the party's candidate — and on Sept. 10.

There will be fewer red ties in Washington D.C. Thursday when Republican lawmakers plan to descend en masse on former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, according to a new report.

Four Republicans told Politico Wednesday that a large number of House conservatives want to take a political field trip to the New York City courtroom where Trump faces charges that he cooked his books to pay hush money to an adult film star ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

In a scathing speech during a meeting of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) tore into his Republican colleagues regarding their favorable treatment of participants in the deadly January 6 insurrection.

Even though he didn't mention anyone by name, Garcia admonished his fellow committee members on the other side of the aisle for allegedly showing warmth toward January 6 defendants currently being held in the Washington, D.C. jail. Garcia seemed to all but point to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who sits on the committee and has repeatedly heaped praise on those who participated in the siege of the U.S. Capitol.

Bad economy, President Joe Biden loses; good economy, former President Donald Trump wins.

That was the theory Trump provided followers Wednesday in a nuanced Truth Social analysis of the effect his presidential election campaign has had, and will have, on the stock market.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-M.D.) appeared on CNN Wednesday to sing the praises of Angela Alsobrooks, who won the Democratic primary for the Senate race on Tuesday night and will face off against former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.

But, after trashing Donald Trump for putting Republicans in the position for races to come down to who will codify reproductive freedom, Raskin took aim at a meeting Trump had with big oil companies where he allegedly offered a quid pro quo — and demanded action.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) drew laughs during a House hearing when she took a jab at the misfortunes suffered by former attorneys for Donald Trump.

The Texas Democrat asked former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks during a hearing of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government whether she was familiar with the track record of various attorneys who had been criminally charged or disbarred after working for the former president.

Donald Trump's lawyer spent Tuesday grilling the ex-president's former "fixer," Michael Cohen, about his role in an alleged hush money scheme and the subsequent false business documents prosecutors say were created to hide it.

Trump faces 34 felony counts around the matter — and two former prosecutors say his guilt was proven before Cohen even took the stand.