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Seconds after Judge Juan Merchan closed a meeting into accusations that Donald Trump violated a gag order meant to protect jury members and witnesses in his hush money trial, the former president unleashed an attack on the judge.

After Trump walked out of the courtroom Tuesday, an all-caps post appeared on his Truth Social account hitting out at Merchan, who had ended the hearing without making a ruling.

Former President Donald Trump's whole company could be teetering on the verge of collapse if he can't get the $450 million civil fraud ruling reversed, New York Times reporter Russ Buettner argued on CNN Tuesday morning.

This comes as Trump agreed to last-minute concessions to state Attorney General Letitia James in order to get his $175 million bond accepted, which had been a point of contention as state officials were suspicious of the circumstances under which he secured the money while he appeals the case.

Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday came down hard on Trump lawyer Todd Blanche's attempts to spin former President Donald Trump's apparent violations of a previously issued gag order that prevented him from publicly attacking witnesses in his hush-money trial.

As reported by Inner City Press' Matthew Russell Lee, Merchan appeared to lose his patience when Blanche tried to argue that Trump simply promoting an article that attacked witness Michael Cohen didn't run afoul of the gag order because Trump was simply passing along something said by someone else.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's Florida classified documents criminal trial has unsealed a trove of documents related to the FBI's investigation into the former president as well as the agency's raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach in 2022.

The documents, unsealed by Judge Aileen Cannon, reveal the personnel involved in the raid and how it played out. One document shows that the operation was nicknamed "Plasmic Echo," Fox News reported.

Prosecutors in Donald Trump's hush money trial said the former president violated a gag order 10 times, but they did not seek jail time as a sanction.

During a Tuesday morning hearing, Assistant District Attorney Chris Conroy explained how Trump had attacked jurors, prospective jurors, and potential witnesses.

From inside the courtroom on Tuesday, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin revealed that Judge Juan Merchan was "losing his patience" with Donald Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche.

In a testy morning hearing into whether Trump has violated a gag order put in place to stop him attacking members of the jury and witnesses, the judge reamed off examples of attacks — with likely witnesses in his targets including Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, among others.

Former President Donald Trump has blatantly violated the gag order in his Manhattan criminal trial, and the judge is likely to take action against him, said former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN Tuesday morning.

Trump, who has already been fined multiple times for violating gag orders in his civil trials, faces a hearing later today on his conduct, where Judge Juan Merchan will decide whether to hold him in contempt of court, including fines or even possibly temporary confinement to jail.

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) expressed concern on Tuesday that Judge Aileen Cannon is once again throwing sand in the gears of justice in an effort to delay former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McCaskill was asked by host Joe Scarborough about Cannon putting out "one bizarre ruling after another" and "is doing her best, it seems, to slow" the trial in which Trump is accused of illegally retaining top-secret government documents and obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them.

The Trump campaign worked as hard as they could for months to elevate environmental attorney and longtime conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in the hope he would poach votes from President Joe Biden.

Now, some allies of the former president are terrified the opposite will happen.

Donald Trump's lawyers tried to present the former president as a "family man" to defend him from allegations in his hush money trial involving an adult film star, and MSNBC's Claire McCaskill guffawed at the claim as preposterous.

Lawyers delivered opening statements Monday in the trial, and while prosecutors laid out their case showing that Trump allegedly conspired to pay off adult film star Stormy Daniels to ensure her silence and then falsified business records to hide the payments, the former president's attorneys insisted he'd done nothing wrong.

Conservative Jonah Goldberg dumped all over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) crusade to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) during a Monday appearance on CNN.

Goldberg began by predicting that Johnson would easily survive Greene's motion to vacate his chair, as it would be hard to find other Republicans willing to go on the "Mount Rushmore of Weirdness" alongside Greene and fellow hardliner Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Thomas Massie (R-KY).

Donald Trump repeatedly violated the gag order in his criminal trial just hours ahead of a contempt of court hearing, and a legal expert called on the judge to put him in "time out."

The former president attacked New York judge Juan Merchan, who is not covered under the order, during a Monday night radio appearance on Real America's Voice and then moved on to attacking the jury, which is covered under the order, reported The Daily Beast.