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Legal analyst Lisa Rubin Tuesday said testimony presented in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial made her "laugh out loud."

Rubin shared this moment of levity with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace during a panel discussion of former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker's testimony on efforts to cast Trump as an "eligible bachelor."

Fox News host Jesse Watters’ coverage of Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial is raising eyebrows for the praise he lavishes upon the former president and the basic facts about courtroom proceedings he seems not to understand, a new analysis shows.

Among his confused viewers is Vanity Fair’s political correspondent Bess Levin, who targeted Watters Tuesday with a quick fact check and a joking prediction for Fox News.

Former president Donald Trump's attorney Todd Blanche is stuck between a rock and a hard place in the form of a "crazy, unreasonable client," according to former federal prosecutor Harry Litman.

Litman's analysis Tuesday came on the heels of proceedings in the criminal hush money trial that saw Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Trump's lawyers debating whether the former president had violated his gag order.

Former President Donald Trump has a new demeaning nickname for Maggie Haberman, the New York Times reporter who revealed unflattering details about his criminal trial behavior and challenged his excuses for a lack of protesters outside.

The former president laid out his new insults Tuesday in a lengthy Truth Social rant in which he also argued his supporters had been blocked by police from gathering outside the Manhattan court house where his hush money trial is unfolding.

As Donald Trump's first criminal trial got underway, proceedings received extensive coverage in the media.

But over at Fox News, the story is not the center of the news world — and the network's focus was more centered around Trump's grievances over the trial, which accuses him of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment made to adult movie star Stormy Daniels.

Arizona Senate hopeful Kari Lake appears to have changed her position on the state's Civil War era total abortion ban — again.

Immediately after the Republican-controlled state Supreme Court allowed the ban — which was passed decades before Arizona even became a state and makes no exceptions other than to save the life of the pregnant woman — to be enforced, Lake came out with a statement condemning the decision, saying, "it is abundantly clear that the pre-statehood law is out of step with Arizonans."

President Joe Biden Tuesday called out Donald Trump's deal with conservative evangelicals that led to the revocation of federal abortion rights.

At a campaign stop in Tampa, Biden noted that Trump had taken credit for the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which protected abortion rights at the federal level.

Donald Trump is looking increasingly dejected in court — and he's not hiding his feelings well, onlookers said Tuesday.

According to New York Times reporter Sue Craig, Trump "looked very frustrated all morning."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is making herself almost as universally reviled by her fellow Republicans as she is by Democrats.

Conservative publications and websites are starting to turn on Greene, according to journalist Molly Jong-Fast. In her latest column for MSNBC, Jong-Fast observed that the Georgia Republican was roundly criticized by Fox News and the New York Post (both of which are owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch). Even far-right outlets are frustrated with Greene's stranglehold on the House. Pro-Trump outlet Newsmax recently ran an op-ed entitled, "Who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?"

Two Generation Alpha teenagers who decided to attend the second day of Donald Trump's trial in Manhattan Tuesday tore apart the former president's lawyer live on TV.

Fourteen-year-old Hope Harrington told MSNBC she wanted to be a lawyer when she grows up, and that was one of the reasons she and her friend decided to use a day off school to attend.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that all participants in the January 6, 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol can be charged with disorderly or disruptive conduct — even if they were personally not destroying property or acting violently.

According to Politico, the D.C. appellate court's ruling is a big win for the U.S. Department of Justice, which had assigned that charge to nearly all of the 1,200-plus defendants in its ongoing prosecution of the deadly insurrection.

In his opening statements during Donald Trump's New York hush money criminal trial this Monday, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche portrayed adult movie star Stormy Daniels as a liar who sought to "extort" Trump and his then-lawyer Michael Cohen.

It was an opening gambit that sparked "more than a half-dozen" objections from prosecutors and surprised legal analysts.

Donald Trump boasted that he would use his criminal and civil trials to campaign for president, but he already looks "needy and rattled" after just a week in court, argued one columnist.

The former president – amplified by numerous media outlets – claimed he would bask in the wall-to-wall coverage to manipulate the courts and boost his campaign profile, but that's not what has happened since he lost defamation and fraud judgments for more than a half-billion dollars, wrote Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin.