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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) was subjected to ridicule Tuesday over his emotional explanation as to why he decided to join former President Donald Trump at his criminal hush money trial.

Vance, considered a potential running mate for the presumptive Republican nominee, did not speak of politics during his Fox News interview, but of friendship.

Three retired Republican senators are creating a resistance movement against former President Donald Trump and the MAGA populists they argue are usurping the party of former President Abraham Lincoln.

Retired Sens. Alan Simpson (R-WY), John Danforth (R-MO) and William Cohen (R-ME) announced Tuesday in a Washington Post editorial their intention to fight radical conservatism with a new political organization to honor what they called Our Republican Legacy.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has admitted he came to New York City Monday to break a gag order for former President Donald Trump.

MSNBC Anchor Nicolle Wallace reported Tuberville's public admission, made on the conservative channel Newsmax, as part of her coverage on Trump's ongoing criminal hush money trial and the gag order the former president has been fined for repeatedly violating.

A key shortlister for former President Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate thinks America should crack down on how many people are allowed to have divorces.

Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate who served as Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, outlined his plan in his book, "The Perilous Fight," released on Tuesday, for getting rid of "no-fault divorce" laws, according to NBC News.

NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard said Tuesday that Trump's behavior in court is coming off as if he doesn't care — and the jury is noticing it.

Speaking to MSNBC, Hillyard said actions like shutting his eyes are sending a clear defiant signal to anybody watching.

Former President Donald Trump took yet another opportunity to complain about the criminal proceedings against him outside the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday — and, just like on previous occasions, CNN's Daniel Dale was there to debunk all the false claims he uttered shortly after in a conversation with anchor Jake Tapper.

This came after a lengthy day in which Trump's former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, set to be the final witness for the prosecution, was subject to intense cross-examination by Trump's team.

Former President Donald Trump declared that he had a "very good day" after his attorney, Todd Blanche, cross-examined Michael Cohen in a Manhattan hush money trial on Tuesday.

Following the first day of Blanche's cross-examination of Cohen, Trump spoke to reporters outside the courtroom.

They were dressing to impress an audience of one.

Republicans flocked to a Lower Manhattan courthouse Tuesday as a show of solidarity with former President Donald Trump as he attends his criminal hush money trial, now in its fourth week.

Legal analyst Andrew Weissmann was bothered by one line of questioning of Michael Cohen he said Donald Trump's lawyer was twisting out of context as cross-examination started in the hush money trial Tuesday.

MSNBC co-host Chris Jansing hushed the debating panel as they heard reports coming from the courtroom, saying, "It's getting a little brutal."

Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's defense attorney, got tepid reviews for his initial cross-examination of a critical witness in the former president's hush money trial.

Throughout his cross-examination of Michael Cohen on Tuesday, Blanche seemed to jump from topic to topic without necessarily tying them together, experts said.

Former President Donald Trump's Truth Social account went into overdrive with a flurry of posts — as he sat in a Manhattan courtroom watching his lawyers grill witness Michael Cohen.

Minutes after the hearing started, Trump's account rattled off a number of quotes, mostly from his own political allies, condemning the trial for falsifying business records on hush payments as a sham and illegitimate.

From inside the courtroom on the 17th day of Donald Trump's hush money trial in Manhattan, his lawyers tried to get under ex-lawyer Michael Cohen's skin.

Instead, observers saw the opposite.