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Liberal economist Paul Krugman has aggressively defended President Joe Biden's economic policies in his New York Times column, often emphasizing that the United States, under Biden's watch, has enjoyed its lowest unemployment figures in more than half a century.

But Krugman has also lamented the fact that many of Donald Trump's voters wrongly believe that he would be better for them on the economy — a subject the economist addressed during an appearance on The New Republic's podcast.

The lone Florida Congress member who endorsed Gov. Ron DeSantis in his unsuccessful bid for president is being targeted by Donald Trump, who is calling on Republicans to launch a primary challenge against her.

Rep. Laurel Lee, who won her election in a safe red district, also resisted calls from Trump-supporting lawmakers to do an audit of Florida's 2020 election result when she served as the state's top election official under DeSantis.

Judge Juan Merchan shot down a request from Donald Trump's lawyers Monday to give them another 90 days to review documents tangentially related to the Stormy Daniels Hush money case.

After battling with Trump's legal team for demanding sanctions against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, the judge took a break and then returned with an adverse ruling for the former president.

After notching a legal victory Monday, Donald Trump repeated his false claim that a New York appeals court had already decided a civil fraud lawsuit in his favor.

An appeals court reduced the amount of the bond he must pay to stave off enforcement of a judgment in the case from $545 million — 120 percent of the $454 million judgment against him — to $175 million, and gave him 10 more days to come up with the money.

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers have used all kinds of maneuvers to delay his assorted criminal trials, and some of the Trump team's latest moves have left MSNBC legal analyst Kristy Greenberg stunned.

At issue were revelations that Trump's lawyers waited until nearly the last possible minute before requesting documents about the Stormy Daniels hush-money case from the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York that wound up further delaying the criminal trial.

In what CNN anchor Jim Acosta later called, "Not a good sign for the defense," Judge Juan Merchan raised his voice and scolded Donald Trump's lawyer for making unfounded allegations against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.

Reporting from outside the courthouse on a chilly Monday, CNN Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Paula Reid read from texts received from inside the courtroom where cameras are not allowed.

CNN legal analyst Van Jones compared Donald Trump's courtroom headaches to a bullfight Monday, with Trump being the "bull" and the legal system being the "matador."

According to Jones, "Every single opening and vulnerability" in Trump's character "is being poked at by the legal system." He then went on to list what he sees as Trump's personality traits and how they've steered him towards the legal problem he has today.

A New York appeals court slashed the amount of the bond Donald Trump must post to cover a $454 million civil fraud judgment Monday.

The ruling reduces the bond to just $175 million to stave off enforcement of the judgment until the appeals process is finalized. The court gave the former president 10 days to post the bond, reported Bloomberg Law.

When Christians ask, "What would Jesus do?" the answer doesn't usually involve authorizing a hush-money payment to cover up an affair with an adult film star.

Despite this, former President Donald Trump seems to believe that comparisons between himself and the savior of the entire Christian religion are apt.

Donald Trump has apparently been unable to secure a bond to hold off enforcement of his $454 million fraud judgment, and a legal expert said Monday his options look bleak.

The former president has filed notice that he would appeal the court order, but New York law requires defendants to put up 110 percent of the penalty to delay enforcement until the appeal process is completed, and MSNBC legal analyst Catherine Christian told "Morning Joe" that Trump had few options to do that after getting turned down by more than 30 lenders for that bond.

Tristan Snell, the former assistant attorney general for the state of New York who prosecuted the Trump University fraud case, told CNN on Monday that former President Donald Trump has been getting "special treatment" that is given to no other criminal defendants.

During an interview with John Berman, Snell made the case that the courts have gone far easier on Trump than they have on defendants who have also been found liable for decades' worth of business fraud.

During a surprisingly sympathetic discussion about Donald Trump's legal woes, MSNBC "Morning Joe," contributor Katty Kay claimed the former president is being crushed by the burden of trials he is facing and can only find solace in the crowds who attend his rallies — and even those have seen a fall in attendance.

With host Joe Scarborough noting the hearing in Manhattan on Monday in the so-called hush-money case is a criminal case where Trump could end up doing time in jail, he prompted Kay with, "I really do at times wonder, with all these things weighing down on one person, how the guy keeps going. I mean, it is incoming constantly."

"Yeah," Kay agreed. "Obviously, at this point, there are many on the legal side wishing we were dealing with the Jack Smith January 6th case or the Mar-a-Lago documents case, both of which I'm sure you'd agree, look more solid than the hush money case, but that's the case we have."

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"Even that, because you say it's a criminal case, that has to be weighing on Donald Trump," she continued. "It looks like it'll go ahead within the next month, even with this small delay. All of those things, the fact that he's not raising money, the complications around getting money from donors but some of it having to be siphoned off to pay his legal fees, the trials themselves, the prospect of losing a huge amount of his assets to pay this bond, it's very hard to imagine how that's not weighing on Donald Trump."

"All he can do, I guess, is take solace from the fact that when he turns up at those rallies — which are not as big as they were in 2020 or 2016, the crowds are not as huge that are greeting him as they were back then — he's still getting the adulation from his die-hard supporters," she added. "And he hasn't, from when you look at the polling, as remarkable as it might seen from 2020 to 2024, he doesn't seem to be losing much of that base."