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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) drew laughs during a House hearing when she took a jab at the misfortunes suffered by former attorneys for Donald Trump.

The Texas Democrat asked former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks during a hearing of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government whether she was familiar with the track record of various attorneys who had been criminally charged or disbarred after working for the former president.

Donald Trump's lawyer spent Tuesday grilling the ex-president's former "fixer," Michael Cohen, about his role in an alleged hush money scheme and the subsequent false business documents prosecutors say were created to hide it.

Trump faces 34 felony counts around the matter — and two former prosecutors say his guilt was proven before Cohen even took the stand.

An outspoken Democratic lawmaker Wednesday publicly shamed MAGA Republicans for declaring unequivocal support for law enforcement while decrying those who brought former President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 rioters to justice.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) spoke out during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on challenges faced by law enforcement officials. Behind him stood a poster with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's photograph and her slogan "Defund the FBI."

Shares of stock in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Donald Trump's Truth Social, are back to trading at $53 despite no evidence that the technology company will ever be profitable, according to a report from the New York Times.

That, in turn, has some financial analysts scratching their heads with one principal in a company specializing in financial advice saying the company is worthless and an investor admitting he's uncomfortable with how much money he has tied up in the stock.

As The Times' Matthew Goldstein reported, the stock — often derided as a "meme stock" — has almost returned to the $58 it was valued at the end of the first day of trading, putting Trump's majority holdings at $6 billion — although he still can't touch the money for months.

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With Goldstein pointing out the company lost $58 million last year, Mike Stegemoller, a finance professor at Baylor University, said, "A meme stock has no economic rationale. It is like someone acting erratically on the street — just get out the way.”

One investor, attorney Michael Melkersen, who purchased Digital World stock before the initial public offering in 2021 and claimed he is sitting on "hundreds of thousands of shares of Trump Media," asserted it has paid off for him but, out of an abundance of caution, he is looking to sell some of it off.

One of the pet projects of the Christian right has been total prohibition of online pornography. And evangelicals are hoping to get former President Donald Trump on board, despite his record of allegedly cavorting with sex workers and Playboy models.

CNN recently reported that the right wing's crusade against online pornography is picking up steam, with multiple Republican-led states like Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia already restricting access to PornHub and its sister sites.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is launching a new campaign in his contentious bankruptcy battle, spurred by a $148 million defamation ruling against him, in an unexpected place: the coffee aisle.

Giuliani and his girlfriend Dr. Maria Ryan Tuesday night launched a new website shilling bagged Rudy Coffee with names like "Fighting for Justice," "America's Mayor" and "Enjoying Life," which is decaffeinated.

Sixty-nine days after she suspended her presidential campaign, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is still drawing a consistent one in five Republican primary voters away from the indicted ex-president Donald Trump.

Tuesday's primaries in Maryland, Nebraska, and West Virginia continued that trend, even though she has been nearly totally silent and even though Trump has already gained enough delegates to be the presumptive Republican nominee.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) tried to help out former President Donald Trump in discrediting his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen by posting to X a passage written by Robert Costello, Cohen's former lawyer, in which he recounted Cohen denying he had any information on Trump committing a crime.

This comes as Cohen is set to face another round of cross-examination tomorrow in the Manhattan criminal hush money trial, where he is one of the prosecution's most important witnesses in their business fraud case against the former president.

Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) tore into Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for holding a hearing in defense of former President Donald Trump as he faces dozens of criminal charges.

At Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on government weaponization, Plaskett made it clear that Republicans were only concerned with protecting Trump.

Appearances at Donald Trump hush money trial by North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Florida Rep. Cory Mills could lead to the GOP lawmakers being hauled into court by Judge Juan Merchan.

That also includes Sens. Tim Scott (R-SC), Tommy Tubervillle (R-AL) and J.D. Vance (R-OH) who made cameo appearances along with speeches on Monday.

Sen. Mitt Romney is not impressed with his fellow Republicans' dress, particularly those who appeared in matching Donald Trump-inspired ensembles this week outside Manhattan criminal court.

"It's difficult to watch," Romney (R-UT) told CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane, "watching them prostrating themselves."

Former President Donald Trump's legal defense team has to continue going after Michael Cohen to prevent a conviction in the Manhattan criminal case, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Sara Sidner on Wednesday — and there are two key points they need to hammer home if they want to do it.

Although Manhattan prosecutors have done everything in their power to corroborate Cohen's accounts of Trump's alleged criminal conduct in the hush payment scheme to adult film star Stormy Daniels, using independent evidence and witnesses, and although some experts believe the first round of the Trump defense team's cross-examination of Cohen went poorly, the fact remains that he's an impeachable witness, Honig said.

There's no question some voters are reconsidering former President Donald Trump now that he has been out of office for nearly four years, wrote Michelle Cottle for The New York Times — but there's something about the Trump administration that she wants you to remember.

Specifically, for all the prominent Republicans who turned up to support him at the Manhattan courthouse this week, like Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), there is a whole cast of ex-Trump loyalists who aren't there to stand with him — because they caused an ongoing avalanche of governance scandals when they were serving in his orbit before.