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A former friend of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testified that the prosecutor's relationship with her colleague Nathan Wade began before she hired him.

Robin Yeartie, who previously worked in the district attorney's office, testified Thursday at a court hearing that Willis began her personal relationship with Wade before he was hired as a special investigator in the election subversion case against Donald Trump and his allies, reported the Associated Press.

After getting off to a rough start, the hearing in New York over the Stormy Daniels hush money trial ended with another sharp reprimand.

According to Just Security fellow Adam Klasfeld's live updates from the courtroom, "Trump's prosecutor Christopher Conroy complained about not receiving defense exhibits as discovery some six weeks before trial."

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee threatened to kick one of Donald Trump's co-defendants out of a hearing on Thursday.

At a proceeding to determine whether District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade should be disqualified from Trump's election interference case, defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant grilled Wade about personal expenses. Merchant asked Wade about travel with Willis in an attempt to prove the two had a romantic relationship.

Donald Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, cited a number of statistics to a judge Thursday that are more commonly heard in his client's fundraising emails than a courtroom.

The two sides in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial began debating jury selection after Trump was denied requests to delay the trial — now set to begin on March 25.

Fulton County Assistant District Attorney Adam Abbate suggested that a lawyer for one of Donald Trump's co-defendants should be hit with sanctions.

At a hearing in Georgia on Thursday, Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for Michael Roman, sought to have District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade dismissed from the case.

Donald Trump was in New York for a hearing before Judge Juan Merchan in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial on Thursday — and it was rough from the start.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche began that hearing with demands to delay the trial — which went nowhere.

Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba is not looking forward to the verdict in her client's civil fraud case, she revealed in an interview this week with Newsmax's Eric Bolling.

The case, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, claims that Trump and his two adult sons systematically made fraudulent property valuations to manipulate their tax liability and loan terms, something they vigorously denied at trial. But Judge Arthur Engoron has already held Trump liable for fraud in a summary judgment, with the trial largely to decide damages.

CNN's Elie Honig immediately shut down Donald Trump's angry courthouse rant as a New York judge set a trial date in the ex-president's hush money case.

Trump claimed the prosecution was brought by President Joe Biden and insisted "even if he was guilty" of falsifying business records to cover up payments to adult movie actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 campaign, "there's no crime."

Former President Donald Trump's criminal fraud case in New York has been confirmed for a March 25 trial date, CNN reported on Thursday.

The date was set at a pretrial hearing that the former president was attending in Manhattan.

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday made the curious legal argument that he didn't commit a crime even if he was guilty of committing one.

Standing outside a courthouse in Manhattan, the former president raged at having to spend time defending himself against allegations that he committed financial fraud related to his hush-money payments to an adult film star, and he blamed President Joe Biden for all of his legal woes despite the fact that the current case is being pursued by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Former President Donald Trump is attempting to turn the whole Republican Party into a "fief of MAGA" by stacking key positions throughout the party and public office with members of his own family — and there's no telling how far he'll take it, warned Michelle Cottle in a blistering column for The New York Times.

This comes after reports that he is pushing for his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to hold a senior position at the Republican National Committee, and was even trial ballooning the idea of his son-in-law Jared Kushner being appointed Secretary of State in a second term — although Kushner himself appears to be against the idea.