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Former President Donald Trump has faced weeks of testimony in the Manhattan criminal trial for alleged falsification of business records to conceal hush payments to an adult film star — including from his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen — and the prosecution is getting ready to rest.

But it's not entirely clear they've convincingly made their case.

Donald Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche's "scattershot" attacks on prosecution witness Michael Cohen are, so far, blowing up in his face, according to one analyst observing the hush money trial now taking place in a Manhattan courtroom.

According to MSNBC's Hayes Brown, Blanche's attacks on Cohen's credibility after the ex-Trump lawyer admitted in court multiple times that he lied in service to his former client actually helps the prosecution's case that the ex-president was deploying deception by paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.

The prosecutor and judge involved in Donald Trump's election interference case in Georgia are both running for re-election in next week's primary election.

Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis and Superior Court judge Scott McAfee each face a primary challenge Tuesday as Trump's trial is paused for an appeal that would remove the prosecutor from the case against the former president, although it's not clear what might happen if either were to lose their race, reported CNN.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough went on an extended rant on Wednesday morning over a recent questionable — according to analysts— New York Times/Siena poll that showed Donald Trump with unusually huge leads in battleground states, with the "Morning Joe" host accusing the venerable newspaper of publishing "garbage" to create news.

According to the NYT poll, President Joe Biden is struggling with young voters and voters of color. However, as co-host Mika Brzezinski pointed out, polling experts have taken to social media to rip the pollsters' methodology apart saying the final results have been "skewed" in Trump's favor.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and one of his guests shamed House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for using the authority of his office to attack prosecutors and the court on behalf of Donald Trump.

Johnson joined a parade of Republican lawmakers and politicians, including Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and J.D. Vance (R-OH), to attend portions of Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan and then speak out against the prosecution outside the courthouse in a possible violation of a judge's gag order, and the "Morning Joe" panel expressed condemnation.

Donald Trump continued his winning streak in Tuesday's primaries, emerging victorious in Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia — but there are new warning signs for him when it comes to November's general election.

Much like in Indiana's primary last week, a substantial percentage of Republican voters are still balking at voting for the former president, choosing instead to back former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) who dropped out almost 45 days ago.

Defendant Donald Trump may gripe about being tethered to court and unable to stump for president on the campaign trail, but that's not stopping his devoted allies from turning a Manhattan courtroom into campaign headquarters.

Huddling around a lo-fi camera setup Tuesday and claiming to be at the 100 Centre Street criminal courthouse in Lower Manhattan were Trump's son Eric, his wife and RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump, along with Reps. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Cory Mills (R-FL) and former presidential candidate and vice president contender Vivek Ramaswamy.

A top U.S. House Democrat announced Tuesday that he is demanding answers from fossil fuel executives after Washington Post reporting revealed last week that former Republican President Donald Trump recently told industry leaders he would gut climate regulations if they raised $1 billion for his 2024 presidential campaign.

Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, on Monday wrote to the heads of the American Petroleum Institute (API) and eight companies: Cheniere Energy, Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, Continental Resources, EQT Corporation, ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum, and Venture Global LNG.

While former President Donald Trump reportedly got some shuteye during day 17 of his New York hush money trial Tuesday, Fox News’ host Laura Ingraham's eyes were wide open.

The Daily Beast reports Ingraham had a pair of binoculars with her in the courtroom, and was told several times to stop using them.

Republican anti-Donald Trump group the Lincoln Project on Tuesday issued a brutal rebuttal to one conservative pundit's recent attempt to shame Vice President Kamala Harris: a video montage of the former president uttering swear words that cannot be printed on this site.

The video came as a rebuke to Fox News' Raymond Arroyo and his claim that Harris had denigrated her higher office by dropping "the f-bomb" during a speech to Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander organizations on Monday.

Cross-examination of Donald Trump's former longtime attorney Michael Cohen is officially underway, and Trump attorney Todd Blanche immediately began by letting Cohen know he didn't appreciate a remark he made about the defense counsel on social media.

The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, who attended Tuesday's trial proceedings in person, posted a dispatch from the courtroom detailing a tense exchange that Blanche had with Cohen. As the cross-examination began, Pagliery said Blanche, "Leaned forward with both hands forcefully gripping the edges of the wooden tabletop" as he approached the lectern and adjusted the microphone. He further observed that Blanche's typically "satiny" voice was replaced by "a slight grittiness."

Many contenders to be former President Donald Trump's running mate in 2024 have one particular trait in common, according to a scathing new editorial from the Daily Beast: they're "hypocrites."

Writer Nell Scovell delivered Tuesday a thorough breakdown of Trump's Republican running mate hopefuls and an aspect of their backgrounds many have tried to hide.