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'Something I said?' Lawrence O'Donnell laughs after Trump profanely trashes him

Lawrence O'Donnell had a laugh after he was singled out by former President Donald Trump while attending Tuesday's hush money hearing in Lower Manhattan.

"Trump posted this right after my show tonight," O'Donnell wrote in a tweet. "Must've been something I said."

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'Honeybunch': Mary Trump reveals disturbing origin of uncle's pet name for Stormy Daniels

Mary Trump shared with her readers Tuesday night the disturbing origin of a pet name adult film star Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday she was given by former President Donald Trump after the pair had sex.

“It was really hard to get my shoes because my hands were shaking so hard,” Daniels said on the witness stand in Manhattan criminal court. “He said: ‘Oh, it was great. Let’s get together again, honeybunch.'”

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​'Trump picked her': Alina Habba's jab at Stormy Daniels swiftly turns against her

Alina Habba, the lawyer for former President Donald Trump who'd rather be pretty because she can fake being smart, saw her words turned against her when she tried to insult Stormy Daniels.

Habba appeared on Fox News Tuesday night to discuss with Sean Hannity what she witnessed during Trump's ongoing criminal hush money trial in New York City, where he stands accused of falsifying business records ahead of the 2016 presidential election, when Daniels took the stand.

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'We're winning now, sir!' Former insider explains how Trump lawyers work to keep him sweet

A onetime member of former President Donald Trump's inner White House circle believes lawyers in his criminal hush money trial are telling him he's winning to keep him sweet.

Stephanie Grisham, Trump's former White House Communications Director, made this argument during a CNN appearance following a contentious day in the Manhattan criminal courtroom where adult film star Stormy Daniels took the stand.

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'Great day!' Trump declares after being chastised for 'cursing audibly' in court

Former President Donald Trump took a digital victory lap on Truth Social Tuesday after a dramatic day that saw adult film star Stormy Daniels sharing "mortifying" details from his bedroom and a New York City judge chastise him for audibly cursing in court.

"GREAT DAY IN COURT TODAY!" Trump declared.

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'Textbook mistakes': Trump lawyer slammed for badly timed 'Perry Mason' moments

Donald Trump's attorney made "textbook mistakes" Tuesday while cross examining adult film star Stormy Daniels in the former president's criminal hush money trial, legal experts argued Tuesday.

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman and analyst Lisa Rubin appeared on MSNBC to discuss defense attorney Susan Necheles' questioning one of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's star witnesses.

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'Bias and incompetence': Ex-Trump lawyer shreds Judge Aileen Cannon over trial delay

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon was publicly shredded Tuesday by Donald Trump's onetime White House counsel over her decision — which he called biased and incompetent — to indefinitely delay the former president's classified documents case.

Ty Cobb appeared on CNN's "Out Front" to slam the Florida federal court judge and bemoan the plight of special counsel Jack Smith, who has accused Trump of multiple violations of the Espionage Act.

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'Must be broke': Mike Lindell drops seized cell phone lawsuit against Justice department

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has dropped his lawsuit against the Justice Department for seizing his phone, court records show.

In a new court order reported by Politico's Kyle Cheney on Tuesday, Minnesota-based U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud granted Lindell's motion for dismissal.

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'Terror into votes': Expert examines Trump’s 'deep investment in promoting fear'

Last month, Republican nominee Donald Trump told a Pennsylvania rally crown that if President Joe Biden wins the November election, "our country is going to be destroyed."

This declaration was one of many the ex-president has made to successfully stoke fear among his faithful MAGA supporters.

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'Inaccuracies and pure fantasy': Amazon readers unimpressed by Kristi Noem's dead dog tale

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's controversial memoir "No Going Back" — in which the MAGA darling details shooting the family dog in a gravel pit — was released to the public Tuesday and immediately subjected to their reviews.

Readers had mixed feelings about Noem's book, in which she notoriously describes killing her 14-month-old wire-haired pointer Cricket and a "nasty and mean" billy goat, as well as the claim she faced down North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jung Un.

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'He is cursing audibly': Lawyer warned to control Trump during Stormy Daniels testimony

Former President Donald Trump's attorney was warned by Judge Juan Merchan to get control of his client during their Manhattan hush money trial — and in particular, get him to stop "cursing audibly."

The interaction between Merchan and attorney Todd Blanche, reported by CNN's Kaitlan Collins, came as adult film star Stormy Daniels came in to testify about her alleged affair with Trump that formed the basis of the purported hush payments to defraud voters in the 2016 election, currently being prosecuted as business fraud.

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'Bizarre timeline': Columnist laments 'madness' of Stormy Daniels’ lurid testimony

On Tuesday, adult film star and director Stormy Daniels took the witness stand in former President Donald Trump's ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan. One columnist used her testimony as an example of how "bizarre" American politics has become.

Even though Judge Juan Merchan took great care to keep Daniels from disclosing the salacious details of their encounter, Daniels and prosecutors still occasionally veered into risqué territory, particularly when Daniels recounted how Trump was wearing silk pajamas, asked her to spank him with a magazine and didn't wear a condom during their 2006 rendezvous. While Daniels maintained the encounter was consensual, she added that it was unpleasant, and that the reality TV producer and business magnate reportedly told her that sleeping with him was "the only way you're getting out of the trailer park.

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'Meltdown': CNN expert highlights biggest risk Stormy Daniels poses to Trump

Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial saw one of its most explosive days yet when adult film star Stormy Daniels took the stand.

Daniels, whose silence prosecutors say Trump bought with a $130,000 hush money payment concealed in falsified business records, grew heated under questioning and the former president demanded a mistrial over her personal comments about him.

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