Donald Trump’s former attorney general Bill Barr assessed it would be a “bad idea” for the ex-president to testify when his criminal indictment goes to trial.

Barr joined Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday, where he denounced Trump’s indictment and upcoming arraignment for falsifying business records in connection with the Stormy Daniels hush money scandal. The former AG used the conversation to push back on those who accused him for years of being Trump’s “toady,” though he recalled how the ex-president often “made my life difficult” with his old Twitter habits.

As Barr questioned the legal basis for Trump’s indictment, Bream noted that the ex-president still faces legal scrutiny for his culpability on January 6th, plus the Mar-a-Lago documents scandal. Barr re-affirmed his view that the case of the documents is the “most serious” against Trump, whereas the January 6th case is “difficult.”

“It also runs into First Amendment issues,” he said. “You know, where are you going to draw the line between legitimate First Amendment activity — protesting an election — and actually conspiring to undo an election?”

From there, Bream asked Barr “if the president was your client, would you put him on the stand? Because I’ve gotta imagine, if any of these cases get to trial, he’s going to want to defend himself.”

Barr’s answer put him emphatically against the idea.

I’m not his lawyer. Generally, I think it’s a bad idea to go on the stand, and I think it’s a particularly bad idea for Trump because he lacks all self control, and it would be very difficult to prepare him and keep him testifying in a prudent fashion.

Watch above via Fox News Sunday.

Joe Tacopina, the attorney representing Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money payout case in which the former president has just been indicted, reportedly has his share of detractors in Trump’s inner circle.

According to Rolling Stone,

From the report:

A source familiar with the matter and another person close to Trump tell Rolling Stone that a number of Trump’s other current lawyers have privately described Tacopina as “dumb” and a “loudmouth.”

Tacopina has been ever present on cable news over the past several weeks, including on Sunday morning — where he racked up multiple appearances.

The lawyer’s comments have not always been in lockstep with his client’s during those TV hits. During an interview on CNN Sunday, Tacopina said there is “no reason to believe” the judge in the former president’s case is biased, despite Trump angrily claiming otherwise.

Yet despite the apparent objections of some in his camp, Trump is sticking with Tacopina. From the Rolling Stone report:

The two sources say some of Trump’s lawyers and advisers have warned the ex-president that he should be careful with Tacopina, and that he cannot trust the attorney’s loyalty.

“He pisses off others with his antics, but he’s a blunt object that Donald Trump wants, apparently,” says one of the sources.

A third source familiar with the matter calls Tacopina “such a frickin’ idiot.”

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is speaking out about his battle with depression for the first time since checking himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment.

Speaking with Jane Pauley on CBS Sunday Morning, the senator opened up about what led him to check himself in for treatment.

“I had stopped leaving my bed,” Fetterman said. “I had stopped eating. I was dropping weight. I had stopped engaging most things that I love in my life.”

Fetterman clarified that he did not consider self-harm, but described himself as “indifferent” about living.

“As it was described to me, you were agnostic about the question of living or not at that time?” Pauley said.

“Yeah. Well, I never had any self-harm, but I was indifferent, though,” Fetterman said. “If the doctor said, ‘Gee, you have 18 months to live,’ I’d be like, ‘Yeah. Okay, well, that’s how things go.'”

According to Pauley, doctors at Walter Reed — where the interview was conducted — discovered Fetterman serious hearing deficit which the way his brain now processes speech, following his stroke last May.

“When I talk, what do you hear?” Pauley asked.

“I hear you talking,” Fetterman said. “And I can understand much of what you’re saying. But my hearing has a deficiency that makes it difficult for me to fully understand 100 percent of it.”

“At some point you described what you hear as, like, Charlie Brown’s teacher?”

“That was more months and months ago,” Fetterman said. “But right now captioning is helpful for me.”

Watch above, via CBS.

New York Times correspondent, best-selling author, and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman said there should be cameras in court so former President Donald Trump can’t “tell people it’s fake news.”

Trump has been indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grand jury investigating the circumstances around hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. According to reports, Trump faces 34 counts in the sealed indictment and will be arrested and arraigned on Tuesday.

Haberman was a guest on Friday night’s CNN primetime coverage, during which she and CNN Legal Analyst Joey Jackson, argued in favor of allowing cameras in the courtroom at Trump’s arraignment and trial so Trump can’t mislead the public about the proceedings:

COLLINS: Yes. I mean, what do you think? I mean, if there is a camera, in the room? That’s a remarkable moment in and of itself. But it could be important to actually get a clear view of what happened inside that courtroom.

HABERMAN: Absolutely. And there is a compelling public interest argument to make. It is absolutely true that New York–

JACKSON: Yes.

HABERMAN: –is really regressive, in terms of cameras in the courtroom. I do expect there’ll be an argument made. I’m not sure what the ruling will be on that.

But it’s interesting. I was thinking, as you were asking that question, there, one of the things we saw over and over, both with Michael Cohen, in terms of Trump, and then other people, in the White House? People have a habit of taping Donald Trump. And they have a habit of taping Donald Trump, because he spins his own reality, and will contradict whatever people say about him.

A camera would be pretty vital, in terms of people understanding what happened, and not being told that something, it’s fake news. And in an era, where Trump is saying that–

JACKSON: Yes.

HABERMAN: –all of these reports are not true? I think there is a compelling argument for it. I am skeptical that it will happen. Just I covered courts in the State. I know how against cameras in the courtroom judges are here.

JACKSON: Yes.

HABERMAN: But I do think there is going to be a compelling argument made.

JACKSON: And even toggling to the actual trial itself, imagine, right, what the public interest in that will be?

HABERMAN: Right.

COLLINS: Yes.

JACKSON: And so, will there be cameras allowed, to depict what occurs, on the day-to-day, because I think certainly people would want to know.

HABERMAN: That’s right.

COLLINS: Yes, obviously, remains to be seen. We’ll see what we do see.

Watch above via CNN.