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Former President Donald Trump and Judge Juan Merchan's clash over a gag order in his hush money trial amounts to a criminal courthouse "game of chicken" that could have dire consequences, one reporter said Monday.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Monday, Washington Post reporter Devin Barrett reminded viewers Trump has repeatedly violated the gag order in his ongoing trial in Manhattan criminal court, where he faces 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments.

Former President Donald Trump and his legal team will likely blame a staffer for business documents at the heart of his criminal hush money trial, a legal expert said Monday.

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani predicts Team Trump will say the former president was oblivious to slippery bookkeeping practices of his accountant, she said in an interview with Salon.

Former President Donald Trump's onetime press secretary appears unfazed by his former colleague Hope Hicks' tearful trial testimony in which she claimed he was responsible for a public statement denying money was paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Hogan Gidley appeared on CNN Monday afternoon to discuss with Jake Tapper a blockbuster moment in the Manhattan criminal court where Trump stands accused of falsifying business records to cover up hush money paid ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Donald Trump's attacks on Michael Cohen may just have been proved fruitless after prosecutors submitted into evidence two documents that appear to back up his former lawyer's claims, legal experts said Monday.

This analysis arrived after a Trump Organization employee and the former controller appeared in Manhattan criminal court to explain a series of documents linked to a $130,000 payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Former President Donald Trump shared a rare post on Truth Social Monday, mere moments after the day's proceedings in criminal hush money trial concluded, of a famous actor and vocal critic condemning the Supreme Court's delays in his presidential immunity case.

"You may remember me, I used to fall down a lot on purpose," a smiling Dick Van Dyke tells the camera. "Our Supreme Court has delayed any decision about our president's immunity and at the same time they've stalled everything.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) found himself under fire on Monday over a post on X that some commenters said contained a racist trope about Koreans.

The post, which was subsequently deleted, was a response to a social media clip featuring Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), who is facing a storm of backlash over multiple claims she made in her upcoming book — first, a boast about shooting a puppy she was unable to train for hunting, and then a story about meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that she has subsequently admitted wasn't true.

A witness in Donald Trump's criminal trial Monday revealed that all personal checks from the ex-president's account were personally signed by him, reporters said.

This includes the "reimbursement" that he sent his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, after he allegedly paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about a sexual relationship with Trump.

Biden administration officials are working on a plan to limit just how much damage former President Donald Trump and his loyalists could cause if he is re-elected back into the Oval Office with a fully Republican Congress to support him, according to a report.

Part of the plan involves hindering the ambitions of Trump's longtime strategist Steve Bannon, who has long fostered dreams of destroying the administrative state — of tearing down the basic agencies that make government function.

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story stated that Charlie Kirk praised the frat boy. It was changed to "defends" to more accurately portray what was said.

Right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk used his Monday program to defend a white fraternity member who was seen on video making monkey noises at a Black woman.

Donald Trump was punished for his tenth violation of a gag order in his Manhattan criminal court trial Monday — but onlookers lashed out that the judge was not willing to go far enough.

The trial began its 12th day on Monday, with Judge Juan Merchan warning Trump yet again that he cannot intimidate witnesses or attack the jury — and making it clear that jail time was a real possibility for the next offense.

Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor whose career was derailed by multiple allegations of sexual abuse, made a surprise endorsement of independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday.

In a Twitter post, Spacey explained why he supported Kennedy, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who is running what Democratic critics say is a spoiler bid aimed at harming President Joe Biden.

Michigan's Republican Party has been beset by vicious infighting and power struggles since Donald Trump's election loss there in 2020 — and a report warns the GOP it's a possible preview of what it's going to face in other states.

Election conspiracy theorist Kristina Karamo was removed as the state GOP chair earlier this year after a chaotic reign, but her loyalists are now hostile to new chairman Pete Hoekstra, and bitterness lingered at a recent meeting to help nominate a 2024 presidential candidate — despite widely held agreement it should be Trump.