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  • 'Solid use of public funds': Republican mocked for flying to NY to 'stand with Trump'

    Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday morning that he was supporting his friend, Donald Trump, during his hush money trial in New York.The Texas leader wrote via X (formerly Twitter), "With President Trump in NYC to sit through this sham of a trial. This trial is a travesty of justice. I stand with Trump."Last May, CNN published an article by longtime Texas political journalist James Moore, who reported:The impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over...

  • 'Irreparable breakdown': Trump campaign law firm suddenly retreats from years-long case

    A longstanding legal firm serving former President Donald Trump's campaign and businesses is seeking to withdraw from a lengthy case because of “irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship,” according to a new report and court records.The firm LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Rosen, Kittridge, Carlin and McPartland on Friday requested to remove itself from a lawsuit filed by a campaign surrogate who said the campaign sidelined her in 2016 after she revealed she was pregnant, the New...

  • 'Big deal': Ex-prosecutor says Trump just made criminal court history in hush money trial

    Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin Tuesday took a harsh view of the contempt order handed down by Manhattan criminal court judge Juan Merchan to former President Donald Trump. "I think it is historic and I think we need to pause and recognize what a big deal this," Toobin told a CNN panel Tuesday night. "This is a finding of criminal contempt that had to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and that's what the judge did."Trump has not been convicted in his criminal hush money case and...

  • 'Glad you said sketchy': Experts say Trump hush money witness just pulled back the curtain

    A witness who appeared Tuesday in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial just pulled back the curtain on a world that, according to legal analyst Lisa Rubin, can only be described with a single word: Sketchy. MSNBC host Chris Hayes and Rubin smiled as they discussed the salacious details shared by Keith Davidson, an attorney who said he bartered catch-and-kill deals with National Enquirer for clients Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, despite hesitations from the tabloid....

  • 'I will murder you': Stormy Daniels bodyguard says threats mount as hush money trial looms

    Adult film star Stormy Daniels' bodyguard says his client has been hit with a wave of death threats as her court date in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial looms. Travis Miller appeared on CNN Tuesday night to share the threats Daniels faces as she prepares to testify about the affair she contends she had with the former president, and the money Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says she was paid to keep quiet. "She's worried," Miller told Erin Burnett. "The...

  • Trump blames hush money lawyers for 'guilty as hell' optics: 'Art of the Deal' writer

    Former President Donald Trump is lashing out at the lawyers over his less-than-innocent optic in his Manhattan hush money criminal trial, "The Art of the Deal" writer Tony Schwartz argued Tuesday. Schwartz appeared on MSNBC to discuss with anchor Joy Reid Trump's reported habit of throwing his lawyers under the bus — and what it might mean for the first of four criminal court cases he faces. "There's reporting [Trump is] unhappy with Todd Blanche, his attorney, who, when I saw him in court, he...

  • Experts urge Trump's hush money judge not to replicate Harvey Weinstein trial missteps

    The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial received a warning Tuesday centered on another high-profile New York City defendant: Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. The warning to Judge Juan Merchan issued by Brennan Institute analysts Brianna Seid and Lauren-Brooke Eisen of the New York Court of Appeals decision to overturn Weinstein’s sex-crimes conviction and what it might mean for Trump's trial. According to the legal analysts, both cases hinge on the...

  • 'Optics aren't great': Ex-Trump insider says campaign problem looms in hush money trial

    A potentially fatal campaign problem looms in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, his former press secretary argued Tuesday. Sarah Matthews raised concerns on CNN's "The Situation Room" about Trump's 2024 bid to reclaim the White House and the effect his trial will have on undecided women voters. "The optics of it aren't great," she said. "This was an affair he had with a porn star shortly after his wife gave birth to their child."Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges...

  • 'Now he has to go': Jokes roll in after judge says Trump can attend son's graduation

    Judge Juan Merchan unwittingly spurred a wave of mockery Tuesday when he ruled former President Donald Trump could skip a day in his criminal hush money trial to attend his youngest son's high school graduation. Barron Trump's named trended on X as news spread that a day of hearings in New York City had been canceled to allow Trump to take the parental trip. "Breaking," quipped X user Machine Pun Kelly. "Barron Trump has appealed Judge Merchan's decision to let his father attend his...

  • 'Nonsensical': Analyst shreds new MAGA's newest theory about Trump's classified documents

    Former President Donald Trump's supporters are out with a bizarre new "nonsensical theory" about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case that doesn't hold up to the slightest scrutiny, wrote the Washington Post's Philip Bump on Tuesday."There is a rumor rumbling around the right-wing media universe in which Biden and officials in his administration are accused of framing Trump on the Florida allegations. And, as is often the case with rumors that course through that universe, the claim being...

  • Student protesters hunker down as more unrest rocks U.S. campuses

    NEW YORK — Students who occupied a Columbia University building vowed Tuesday to fight back against efforts to evict them, as administrators struggled to contain pro-Palestinian protests that have launched dozens of campus demonstrations around the United States. The demonstrations — the most sweeping and prolonged unrest to rock U.S. college campuses since the Vietnam war protests of the 1960s and 70s — have led to several hundred arrests of students and other activists. Many of them have vowed...

  • 'Makes no difference': Lauren Boebert doesn’t care if speaker is Johnson or Jeffries

    In a statement released Tuesday, House Democratic leaders confirmed that they will back House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in the face of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) threat to oust him through a motion to vacate.House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) and House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-CA) declared their support for Johnson, citing his decision to pass the $95 billion bipartisan foreign aid package earlier this...