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Absolutely horrific footage coming out of Manhattan where a man apparently self-immolated (set himself on fire) in the Trump supporter area right outside of the courthouse. This act occurred immediately after the full 18 person jury was officially seated, although it is unclear if this is related to Trump or some other protestor maybe mental illness. In the above video, Laura Coates from CNN does an absolutely incredible job relaying to viewers what she is seeing and hearing in the moment.

Just outside criminal court on Thursday, Trump addressed reporters to complain about how cold it is inside and how corrupt Joe Biden is even though the former President is facing a long list of crimes. He rifled through a stack of article clips that praised him. At one point on Friday, Sleepy Joe Trump fell asleep in court again.

Thanks to a bombshell footnote in a document from Donald Trump’s New York fraud case, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has just filed a criminal complaint to the FBI and the Department of Justice about a fake $50 million loan Trump has repeatedly “disclosed.” The fraud-case footnote reported that the loan did not exist. C&L reported in January that the fake loan looked a lot like tax evasion. Now Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is asking the FBI and DOJ to look into it.

On Thursday Trump whined like a spoiled child to the media because he was a little cold in the courthouse where he had to sit for his criminal trial and that's so unfair. "And it's a shame, it's a shame," Trump complained. "And I'm sitting here for days now, from morning till night, in that freezing room, freezing.

House conservatives have organized a team to monitor potential ways to undermine their power in light of House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson not bowing to the Chaos Crew's demand not to provide aid to Ukraine. So, the House Freedom Caucus has decided to take shifts to guard the House floor to prevent resolutions they'd consider stripping them from any power.

The Republican Party’s attempted impeachment fiasco and beleaguered House Speaker Mike Johnson were the subjects of late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue Wednesday night. Colbert observed that while the House Republicans targeting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “never identified a specific high crime or misdemeanor for the impeachment, which is usually kind of a thing,” the event was still historic. It's only the second time in America that a Cabinet member has been impeached.