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Former President Donald Trump Thursday demanded a pause in his classified documents case in Florida, arguing his lawyers are too busy trying to keep him out of jail in New York City, court records show.

Trump’s attorneys Todd Blanche and Chris Kise doubled down on the weekend's deadline extension demands, opposed by special counsel Jack Smith, in a new request to Judge Aileen Cannon, according to Florida federal court documents.

Donald Trump's election interference case over his alleged hush-money scheme lost seated jurors Thursday — with one released because she feared she would be identified.

Minutes after juror number two was dismissed, saying her worries over being named meant she wasn't certain that she could be fair and impartial, a male juror stepped forward to reveal he hadn't disclosed an arrest for tearing down political posters. He too was let go.

A juror seated in Donald Trump's criminal hush-money trial was the second to be dismissed on Thursday.

As jurors returned to the courtroom for the third day of trial, one woman said she had "concerns about her ability to be fair."

Manhattan prosecutors told New York Justice Juan Merchan Thursday that former President Donald Trump had violated a gag order at least seven times since the start of his trial for covering up a sex scandal.

At the start of the third day of Trump's criminal trial, the first in history for a former president, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass complained about social media posts.

A juror who was one of seven so far picked to sit on Donald Trump's hush money trial was excused Thursday after voicing concerns her identity was being revealed.

In a series of posts to X this Thursday, CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen, who was in the courtroom Thursday, reported that the juror, who was one of those chosen on Tuesday, had "concerns about her ability to be fair."

A Florida Democrat suggested Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) needs psychiatric help after calling her out on the House floor for spreading Russian propaganda about Ukraine.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (R-FL) blasted the Georgia Republican during a debate on funding to assist Ukraine in its war against Russian invasion, saying she was parroting Vladimir Putin's conspiracy theories about Nazis and sharing his own family's history with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and he told CNN's Kate Bolduan that he couldn't explain Greene's behavior.

Donors to Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign are not only helping to pay his massive legal bills as he faces an onslaught of criminal charges but they are also helping prop up his businesses at a time when he is facing financial difficulties.

According to new campaign filings, reported on by USA Today's Zac Anderson and Erin Mansfield, four checks written between February and March went to Trump's Mar-a-Lago and Trump National Doral Miami for nearly a half million dollars from his joint campaign committee.

That has some ethics experts claiming the former president is pushing the envelope by enriching himself with donor cash.

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This is not something new, as the report notes that "the Trump campaign and affiliated political committees paid businesses owned by Trump at least $4.9 million since the start of 2023, according to an analysis by USA TODAY. Most of that money – $4.1 million – went to TAG Air, Inc. for air travel.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) thinks he's found the perfect job for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Axios reporter Andrew Solender has flagged an amendment that Moskowitz filed that would make Greene the official representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the United States.

President Joe Biden has frustrated fellow Democrats and his own aides by remaining largely silent on Donald Trump's criminal cases, but that could change with one major development.

The president has ridiculed his Republican rival's tech company and taken shots at his record in office, but Biden so far has shied away from commenting on Trump's prosecutions to avoid politicizing the cases or giving credence to false claims that he's directing those prosecutions, wrote MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown.

James Schultz, a former Trump White House lawyer, said that he expected Judge Juan Merchan to find that former President Donald Trump violated his gag order by promoting conspiratorial claims about jurors in his hush-money case.

Appearing on CNN Thursday, Schultz was asked about Trump promoting baseless claims leveled by a Fox News host that some jurors were "lying" about their feelings about Trump so they could sneak onto the jury and convict him no matter the evidence.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) unloaded on House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) over the impeachment inquiry into president Joe Biden, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ridiculed the Kentucky Republican's "embarrassing" response.

The Maryland Democrat took issue with GOP lawmakers suggesting the president had accepted bribes from China, and Raskin demanded that Comer hold an impeachment vote immediately if Republicans had any evidence that Biden had taken bribes or committed any other crimes – and the "Morning Joe" host offered up one of his favorite allusions about the inquiry.

Despite being a former president still protected by a Secret Service detail, Donald Trump could see real time spent behind bars if a jury finds him guilty of falsifying business records in an effort to disguise payments to a former adult film star.

And the odds grow worse for him should he decide to take the stand in Judge Juan Merchan's courtroom sometime during the next six weeks the current trial is expected to last, according to attorney Norm Eisen.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed former Attorney General William Barr for conceding that he would vote again for Donald Trump despite saying he would usher in "chaos" in a second term.

Barr oversaw the Justice Department under the quadruple-indicted for president, and he has warned that another Trump presidency would be a "horror show" and a "nightmare," but the "Morning Joe" host noted with bitter irony that Barr told Fox News he would still cast a vote for him in November.