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With one Wall Street executive and GOP megadonor lamenting, "The street still hopes for somebody else,” Politico reports Monday that financiers and business executives are not pleased with the potential presidential candidate leaders — specifically Donald Trump.

As the report notes, one thing Wall Street prizes above all — besides profits — is stability, and based on Trump's wild swings on trade and finance during his first term, it was in short supply.

Former President Donald Trump's last-minute decision to back out of testifying at his civil fraud trial in New York sparked speculation about what could have prompted him to change his mind.

Forbes reporter Dan Alexander reacted to this news by posting a lengthy thread on Twitter in which he outlined the multiple perjury traps Trump faced if he had decided to go through with his testimony, and he cited his own publication's work to show questions prosecutors could have used to trip up the former president.

Former President Donald Trump recently made a demand that special counsel Jack Smith turn over evidence as part of the discovery process to help him prove the 2020 election was really "stolen" from him.

While such evidence would likely be helpful to Trump at his upcoming election subversion trial, it also is highly unlikely to actually exist since multiple recounts and audits have repeatedly affirmed that Trump legitimately lost the 2020 election.

Donald Trump's last-minute decision to not appear as a witness for his own defense in the $250 million financial fraud trial being conducted in a Manhattan courtroom was likely due to his fears of having to plead the 5th Amendment while being grilled by prosecutors.

That is the opinion of former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, who suggested the former president and his legal team talked a big game up until it was go-time before pulling the plug on Monday's court appearance.

In a debate over whether Donald Trump's fantasies about having a dictatorship were serious enough to warrant the past week of concern, former Fox host Geraldo Rivera said that the focus should instead be put on Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate who continued to enable Trump.

Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta with former Mike Pence adviser Olivia Troye, Rivera said that they should be focusing on how Trump has already behaved like a dictator.

In a discussion between Geraldo Rivera and Olivia Troye, host Jim Acosta couldn't help but blame Republican lawmakers for being the ones to encourage Donald Trump's dictatorship fantasies.

On Thursday, CNN's Manu Raju interviewed several lawmakers asking about Trump's comment that he wanted to be a dictator for "one day" so he could build his wall and drill wherever he wanted.

A former prosecutor is debunking Donald Trump's claim that he can't testify on Monday because of the gag order.

Responding to Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, saying she wouldn't recommend testifying with a gag order in place. But CNN legal analyst Elie Honig called it a fake excuse.

Special counsel Jack Smith filed a short response to Donald Trump's demand to delay his trial about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attacks. According to Smith, there's no good reason to delay pending appeal.

"The Court should not assume at this juncture that no issue can arise that is not involved in the appeal," wrote the Justice Department team. "Likewise, nothing about the defendant’s appeal prevents the Court from continuing to enforce — including, if necessary, by ordering briefing or holding hearings — the protective orders governing discovery ... and the order imposing conditions of release on the defendant. ... In addition, while the appeal is pending, the Court can make headway on the motions already before it, including the defendant’s motions to dismiss based on statutory grounds and selective and vindictive prosecution."

It didn't take long for the former president to withdraw his lawyer's promise.

It's been just a few days since Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba proclaimed he was not afraid and that's why he would testify on Monday.

MSNBC news reporter Adam Reiss explained on Sunday that Donald Trump "couldn't control himself" the last time he tried to testify before the New York fraud trial. It's unclear if that's the reason Trump withdrew from testifying on Monday, but there are some educated guesses from two analysts.

"We had this exact conversation as to whether or would he not testify on Monday," said Sunday host Yasmin Vossoughian. "You said to me, listen, at this point, he's going to testify. But you really never know with the former president. We will really know, and he actually shows up on Monday morning for that testimony. You predicted, accurately, that he was not going to be there. He's not going to testify."