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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), endorsed by Donald Trump, explained that he was supporting Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) ouster because the lawmaker had betrayed Republicans' principles on a foreign surveillance law.

On Monday, Massie told podcast host Charlie Kirk that Johnson had orchestrated a "brainwashing session" in the form of a classified briefing to push through the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

A Russian entrepreneur who loaned millions to Donald Trump's social media platform was behind a series of websites that pushed potentially dangerous "sex pills" that sparked warnings from health regulators about dangerous ingredients, according to a report.

The product, called VMax, promised improved sexual function for those who take it and sparked warnings from the FDA that its ingredients could cause serious health defects.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, inside Manhattan’s Criminal Courthouse on Monday, declared that Donald Trump appeared “old and tired and mad” as she delivered observations about the ex-president on trial for 34 counts of falsification of business records in the alleged pursuit of election interference to protect his 2016 presidential run.

Trump “seems considerably older, and he seems annoyed. Resigned, maybe, angry. He seems like a man who’s miserable to be here,” the journalist told MSNBC viewers Monday afternoon.

The Georgia Republican Party has spent more than $1.7 million in legal fees for those wrapped up in Donald Trump's 2020 election scandal.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed on Monday that the hefty spending began in 2022 and covers the fees for many of the co-conspirators in the Fulton County racketeering case. It has become the party's top expenditure during an election year.

Political expert and veteran newsman Jonathan Alter was sitting in the courtroom Monday with a good view of the jury and the back of Donald Trump and his lawyers.

Speaking to MSNBC, Alter explained that the "split screen" between this view and that of his political opponent is not a good one for Trump.

An appeals court in Texas has upheld a ruling in favor of Sidney Powell, an embattled attorney aligned with former President Donald Trump.

According to CNN, "Powell stands out as a Trump-aligned attorney who has so far been able to defeat the professional misconduct allegations that have been brought against several others who assisted Trump in his schemes to overturn his 2020 electoral loss. However, Powell did plead guilty in the criminal prosecution brought by the Fulton County district attorney for the election subversion plots in Georgia."

While Fred Trump may have not have been the most loving father, one thing he instilled in his son is that it's much better to be a "killer" than to be a loser, the former president's biographers have said.

It was a lesson Donald Trump learned well, and he's "charmed and conned, schemed and marauded his way through life on a scale his old man could hardly have imagined," according to an Atlantic article from columnist David Axelrod Monday.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that an Oregon town wanted unhoused people to "kill themselves" after the municipality moved to punish people for sleeping outside.

During oral arguments on Monday, Sotomayor told Theane Evangelis, a lawyer for Grants Pass, that the city's "intent is to remove every homeless person and give them no public space to sit down with a blanket or lay down with a blanket and fall asleep."

Experts claim it appears inevitable that Donald Trump will be held in contempt of court in his New York criminal trial, and they examined the evidence against him and weighed the potential outcomes Monday.

The former president is accused of running afoul of Justice Juan Merchan's gag order in the case by commenting publicly on witnesses and other trial participants. A hearing into the potential violations is scheduled for Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump went on an angry tirade outside of a Manhattan courthouse on Monday and some observers think he did himself no favors when trying to talk about the facts of his hush money trial.

After the conclusion of the first day of testimony at the trial, Trump went outside the courtroom to declare that the case being brought against him had to do with "bookkeeping," which he described as "a very minor thing in terms of the law."

Donald Trump's rambling rant outside of his courtroom as the first day of testimony ended Monday was so littered with false information that MSNBC cut from it to fact check.

Chris Jansing stepped in to explain that viewers who overheard the impromptu speech may be misled.

Following opening statements in his hush-money trial Monday, former President Donald Trump emerged from the courtroom enraged, insisting the case had "nothing to do" with him.

He began by saying that payments to former attorney Michael Cohen couldn't have been illegal because he did not try to deduct them from his taxes. Cohen has said that he paid adult film actress Stormy Daniels to cover up a sexual affair with Trump — and the former president knew about it.

Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt expressed concern on Monday that the Trump hush-money trial could set a negative precedent for future presidential candidates who have paid hush money to cover up affairs.

In particular, Earhardt seemed disturbed at prosecutors' contention that Trump's hush-money payment was an improper attempt to conceal information from the American public ahead of the 2016 presidential election, as she said that other men who engaged in such schemes may now be deterred from seeking the highest office in the land.