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Morning Joe cracks up as Trump praises National Enquirer witness as 'very nice'

Donald Trump could be held in contempt of court for attacking Michael Cohen over the damning testimony he's expected to provide, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough laughed incredulously when the former president praised another witness who has already provided strong evidence against him.

At an early morning campaign event in Manhattan, Trump said Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker was "very nice."

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'How can we trust him?' New concerns about Trump Media as auditor found to use many names

According to a report from the Financial Times, the outside auditor hired by Trump Media & Technology Group to create a report used by investors for guidance has a history of using multiple names when signing off on documentation, which is raising some eyebrows.

The report notes that BF Borgers accounting firm principal, Ben F. Borgers, has filed forms using 10 different names including, Ben F Brogers, Blake F Borgers and Ben F Vonesh, among others that may just be simple misspellings.

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Mike Pence: latest presidential campaign deadbeat?

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Mike Pence preached from the gospel of fiscal responsibility and proposed a Constitutional amendment to limit federal spending.

“Federal spending growth is out of control and shows no signs of slowing down,” Pence's campaign website said. “Our runaway spending spree is driving inflation, making us dependent on our adversaries, and threatening our national security. It is time for a Constitutional Amendment to tie the hands of profligate politicians in Washington once and for all.”

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'That’s not how any of this works': Trump's plea for GOP to save him shot down by analyst

Reacting to a desperate early morning plea from Donald Trump this week in which he urged Republican Party lawmakers to step in and make his legal problems go away, one political analyst stuck a knife in his hopes.

Early Wednesday, Trump ranted on Truth Social about his latest trial, writing in part that it, "Is a hit job on a Political Opponent the likes of which the USA has never seen before. For the Good of our Country, it must be stopped. The Crooked Joe Biden Witch Hunts have to be ended. REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON MUST TAKE ACTION!"

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'Trump is a lie': Analyst sees ex-president sweating that 'fictional achievements' exposed

Donald Trump's campaign has been trying to spin the allegations in his first criminal trial as simply a bookkeeping issue, and even his critics describe the charges as a hush money case, but this trial — like the others before it — expose his entire life as a lie, a columnist wrote Thursday.

The former president faces charges of falsifying financial records to cover up hush money payments to a adult movie actress with whom he allegedly cheated on his third wife. Daily Beast columnist David Rothkopf said the first witness in the case, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, has already presented damning evidence of criminal liability and systemic fraud.

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'Really inappropriate': CNN guests clash after legal expert hits out at Trump charges

A law professor sparred with a former federal prosecutor over a New York Times Op-Ed that challenged the criminal basis for the charges against Donald Trump in the historic hush money trial.

"I have to say, I think it is really inappropriate that you'd have used the word, the phrase 'selective prosecution' on-air and multiple times in this Op-Ed; none of the red flags you identified established selective prosecution under New York law," former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori snapped on CNN.

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'They imperil Trump': Legal expert warns indicted lawyers likely to turn on ex-president

Donald Trump may have avoided indictment in the Arizona "false electors" case that became public record on Wednesday, but the others now facing conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for scheming to send a set of bogus electors to Washington D.C. to keep their leader in office could still bring him down.

Legal analyst Harry Litman appeared on MSNBC's "All In" with Chris Hayes offering insight on how much damage some of the others formally charged, like Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman Boris Epshteyn, Jenna Ellis, could cause "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1" — otherwise known as Trump.

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'He's actually cooperating': Ex-prosecutor says Chesebro is giving up the goods on Trump

A co-defendant of Donald Trump in Georgia wasn't indicted for a similar scheme in Arizona, and the best explanation is that he's cooperating with prosecutors, a legal analyst said Wednesday evening.

Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, where he was asked about Trump attorney and co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro.

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Trump-loving Charlie Kirk mocked online for new conspiracy theory about Arizona indictment

Charlie Kirk, the founder of the right-wing group Turning Point USA, was ridiculed on social media Wednesday after he suggested that the Arizona indictment charging Donald Trump's allies with crimes was spawned just because of a poll showing Trump ahead in the Grand Canyon state.

Earlier in the evening, Raw Story reported on those charged in Arizona, including one name that was "conspicuously absent" from the state's indictment over alleged 2020 election subversion efforts.

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Trump calls his former A.G. Bill Barr 'gutless' and 'lazy' after getting his endorsement

Donald Trump recently got the endorsement of his former Attorney General Bill Barr, but that didn't stop the ex-president from lashing out at his own appointee Wednesday evening.

Barr, a lifelong Republican, served as Trump's second attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Barr then resigned over disagreements surrounding the former president's 2020 election interference claims.

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Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson sees Trump loyalists becoming 'bodies all around him'

Donald Trump's wake is littered with the fallen of those who pledged fealty.

That is the metaphor that Cassidy Hutchinson, the former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, conjured during an interview on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlin Collins.

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Law professor flags 'conspicuous absence' of one Trump co-defendant in Arizona indictment

The Arizona indictment released on Wednesday for the fake elector scheme charges several of former President Donald Trump's lawyers and strategists, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Christina Bobb, and Boris Epshteyn, as well as Arizona GOP officials like Kelli Ward, and names Trump himself as an unindicted co-conspirator — but there's a conspicuous hole in the indictments, as a major architect of the fake elector scheme, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, is missing.

That's not by accident, NYU Law professor Ryan Goodman wrote for his Just Security site.

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Trump lawyer no longer representing ex-president's aide after clients became 'adversarial'

A key member of Donald Trump's legal defense team has reportedly dropped one of the former president's associates, Boris Epshteyn, as a client as it became clear that the two were considered adversarial to each other due to a recent Arizona criminal indictment.

Hugo Lowell, political investigations reporter for The Guardian, reported after Epshteyn was indicted in Arizona that "Trump lawyer Todd Blanche may soon have to choose whether loyalty is [with] Trump or Boris Epshteyn — clients who are now likely adversarial to each other."

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