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Laughter erupted in Manhattan criminal court as prosecutors in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial read a now-infamous tweet: "If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!"

That's the report Friday morning from CNN analysts Kaitlan Collins and Paula Reid, who discussed what role the former president's own words — particularly when it comes to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's star witness — will play in court.

CNN host Jim Acosta raised an eyebrow — and seemed highly skeptical — after a former Donald Trump adviser attempted to explain why his ex-boss' family, with exception of Eric Trump, is nowhere to be seen as he faces the prospect of going to prison.

Speaking with conservative David Urban, who was part of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, the CNN host focused in on Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for not only their lack of public support, but for being AWOL in the Manhattan courtroom.

Stormy Daniels told a jury about the sexual encounter that Donald Trump tried to hide from voters in 2016, and a political analyst scoffed at the idea that her testimony would help him attract new supporters for his re-election.

The former president has been charged with falsifying business records to cover up that affair as part of a scheme to violate election law, and Daniels provided salacious details about the extramarital affair about which she had been paid by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to keep quiet.

Prosecutors in Donald Trump's hush money trial want to admit an interview from 25 years ago where his typical bragging may come back to bite him.

The old interview with Larry King shows Trump talking about campaign finance law.

The House Committee on Ethics has announced it is extending its investigation into U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) after an initial referral from the Office of Congressional Ethics. Congressman Jackson is a self-described "ultra-MAGA" Republican who has spread various conspiracy theories and was demoted by the Pentagon after his retirement from the military.

While the Ethics Committee is always reserved in its announcements, and did not state the issue it is investigating, it did note it will "announce its course of action in this matter on or before Monday, June 24, 2024." Thursday's announcement follows announcements in April and May of 2022 confirming its investigation into Rep. Jackson.

Donald Trump loves his Palm Beach home and social club because it's the only place where no one can make fun of him, according to a MAGA artist who draws flattering portraits of the former president.

Scott Lobaido, a Staten Islander first made headlines in 2016 when someone set his pro-Trump sign on fire, now creates hagiographic portraits that were recently on display at Mar-a-Lago during an event to honor the artist, the Washington Post reports.

Donald Trump's operations director, Madeleine Westerhout, said under oath on Friday that she had met with the former president's legal defense team -- but CNN legal analyst Elie Honig doesn't think it's a very big deal.

Trump is on trial for 34 felony counts about whether he falsified business records to conceal a hush money payment he gave to actress and director Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an affair.

As Donald Trump's hush money trial concludes its third week, the lack of MAGA supporters showing up outside— to say nothing of his wife Melania Trump — has led to a smattering of close allies of the former president taking a seat in the otherwise crowded Manhattan courtroom where he is facing 34 felony counts.

According to Salon political analyst Heather Digby Parton, the former president has been looking forlorn at his daily courthouse appearance to hear testimony in his hush money trial.

Steve Bannon moved one step closer to jail for refusing to comply with a House subpoena during the Jan. 6 investigation.

The former White House chief strategist and right-wing podcaster's conviction for refusing a congressional subpoena to testify was unanimously upheld by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals, but his four-month jail sentence was placed on hold while their ruling is reviewed, reported Politico.

Paul Manafort has met recently with Republicans to discuss the party's convention this summer, but Donald Trump's advisers have not yet looked into his foreign activities since leaving prison.

However, the Washington Post took a deep dive into the globe-trotting political consultant's efforts to launch a mobile streaming and entertainment platform in China, which has the backing of that nation's government, and the 75-year-old Manafort has also sought out advisory roles with political figures in Japan and South Korea and made contacts with political groups in Latin America.

A former spokesperson for ex-President George W. Bush received a brutal smackdown on CNN on Friday morning after he claimed Donald Trump is a greater defender of Israel than President Joe Biden.

Brought on to attack the president's decision to withhold offensive weapons from Israel to halt the Rafah assault, conservative Pete Seat claimed the former president would be doing a better job managing and dealing with the Gaza crisis.

Judge Juan Merchan rejected Donald Trump's request to subpoena a former prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.

The former president's lawyers had asked the court for testimony and documents from former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who called the hush money investigation a "zombie" case in his book and questioned whether charges were warranted, but Mercan rejected the request on a number of grounds.