Donald Trump boasted earlier this week about paying the $175 million bond to appeal his fraud trial, but he should have been a little more cautious. His bond documentation has now been rejected by the court because his lawyers made multiple mistakes in their filing, including forgetting to attach a copy of Donald Trump's financial statements to the documents. These are simple items that his legal team couldn't even get right.

Also, an independent watchdog group has accused Ted Cruz of breaking the law by accepting a massive campaign contribution from iHeartRadio, the same company that airs Cruz's podcast. While Cruz does not get paid for the podcast, accepting a donation from the company in the amount of $630,000 is certainly something that could be considered compensation. Furthermore, politicians are forbidden from accepting donations from companies that employ lobbyists, which iHeartRadio does.

And a very panicked Donald Trump took to Truth Social this week to try to convince investors that the site (and company) are not completely worthless. Following reports earlier in the week that the company lost tens of millions of dollars last year, the stock price went into a freefall, and Trump is now trying to stop the bleeding before his millions of shares become totally worthless. But his posts boasting about the platform aren't doing anything to ease the concerns of investors.

Finally, according to new reports, Republicans in Congress are getting anxious behind the scenes as their fears grow that Donald Trump is going to cost them their seats. Trump's impact on down-ballot races is one that Republicans are all-too familiar with, as it cost them dearly in 2018 and 2020, when Trump was either on the ballot or in charge of the government. And with Trump's increasingly dangerous rhetoric turning off moderates, all Republicans could end up paying the price.

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