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President Donald Trump's biographer detailed the truth about the president's sex life, The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.

During a conversation on the "Inside Trump’s Head" podcast on Tuesday night, author Michael Wolff described how Trump's Playboy life has long ended and he is now more isolated. And although the 80-year-old president is married, the biographer alleged "he hasn’t gotten any action in years—especially from his wife."

"He is in this White House… this totally alone figure without any kind of… basic warmth," Wolff told podcast co-host Joanna Coles. "Even the people who are… the familiar faces are familiar only on a professional basis."...

There is a key detail in the official transcript of the testimony of Donald Trump's longtime aide, Hope Hicks, that is even "more incriminating" to the former president's criminal case than has previously been reported, a law professor said on Saturday.

Hicks testified in the New York criminal case, where her former boss stands accused of committing felonies in connection with covering up hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in order to impact the election in 2016. Legal analysts have suggested the Hicks testimony was "damaging" for the former president.

New York University law professor Ryan Goodman, who often discusses Trump's legal woes on CNN, said on Saturday that the transcript of the testimony showed more than reports that surfaced from the courtroom. ...

Former Donald Trump aide Hope Hicks spoke under oath at length about how the former president sought to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with him in order to affect the 2016 election, but it's what she didn't say that stood out to one legal expert.

MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos, who has previously provided analysis of Trump's various criminal cases, appeared on the network on Saturday to discuss Trump's case in which he is charged with felonies for allegedly disguising hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels as legal fees to his former lawyer. Trump could potentially face jail time if he is convicted at trial.

Specifically, the host asked what "stood out" to him about Hicks' testimony....

Donald Trump's first criminal trial has been filled with salacious testimony, but a well-known financial reporter who has been covering the former president for years said on Saturday that one thing in particular simply didn't add up.

New York Times reporter Susanne Craig, who is known for following the finances of Trump and his business empire, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to talk about Trump and his current trial. In that case in Manhattan, the ex-president is accused with more than 30 felonies in connection with an alleged scheme to impact the 2016 election by covering up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

The host asked Craig about testimony that could potentially "humanize" Trump, including an anecdote that Trump's longtime aide, Hope Hicks, shared on Friday. She said under oath that Trump asked that the newspaper not be delivered after news broke of his alleged affairs, potentially bolstering Trump's defense that he wasn't trying to affect the election with the purported payments meant to silence Daniels. ...

When a bombshell tax story was set to hit former President Donald Trump hard — Hope Hicks didn't flinch.

That's because the piece and pretty much any of the incoming that would appear to be a crisis for most presidents — was kid's stuff compared to the "Access Hollywood" tape.

Former Donald Trump communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin recalled the nonchalance she received when she presented to Hicks a damning 2020 New York Times story that was about to publish. ...

Hope Hicks' breakdown in court during her testimony at former President Donald Trump's historic criminal hush money trial in New York left an indelible impression on the jury.

Conservative lawyer and outspoken Trump critic George Conway discussed what he believes to be perhaps the most searing moment so far at trial. And one that the jury won't be able to shake when they are tasked with rendering a verdict.

It was Hope Hicks, one of Trump's trusted confidantes, who was a reluctant witness and called there by subpoena, telling the truth and breaking down to a sob in court. ...