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CNN host Kaitlan Collins handed Donald Trump a backhanded and snarky compliment on Monday morning after the former president launched into a one-minute-long rant about the unfairness of his being tried in the Manhattan hush-money case.

Flanked by a phalanx of attorneys and security, the former president addressed the press and claimed he's facing a case that never should have been brought — and then tried to pin it on President Joe Biden.

'Nothing like this has ever happened before, there's never been anything like it," he insisted. "Every legal scholar has said, this case is nonsense. It should never have been brought."

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He later added, "It's an assault on America and that's why I'm proud to be here. This is an assault that our country and it is a country that is failing, it's a country that's run by an incompetent man who is very much involved in this case."

After turning on his heel and ignoring shouted questions, CNN's Collins told viewers, "There is Donald Trump, he did say one thing that is accurate: this is a historic case, one like we have not seen in our country's history, a former president facing criminal charges and about to go to into that courtroom."

She later added, "He said several things that are not true that he has been saying repeatedly about this case. You've likely heard the fact checks of them before that this is a case that is politically motivated and being led by his opponent here, President Joe Biden.

"That is not the case. this was a case that was brought by the Manhattan district attorney, a jury indicted him in this case and agreed to that and signed off on it. That is why we are here where we are today."

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Donald Trump is already sharing "fake allegations about jurors" in his criminal hush money case, a former federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.

Trump made history this week when he became the first former president to face criminal trial after jury selection began in the case accusing the ex-president of falsifying business records to hide an affair from the public ahead of the election. Before the fog has even settled on the jury selection, the former president is now coming directly for those jurors, according to MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance.

For his part, Trump quoted Fox News host Jess Watters.

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"'They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury,' Jesse Watters," Trump wrote on his own social media network, Truth Social, Wednesday. He didn't add further context.

But Vance thought that was inappropriate behavior coming from a criminal defendant.

"Trump is now 're-truthing' fake allegations about jurors," she wrote on Wednesday. "A fully jury isn't even sworn in and he's already coming for them."

Democrat Harry Sisson called it "jury intimidation."

"This is absolutely jury intimidation," he said. "This is against the rules of the court and Donald Trump should be held accountable for it. No more playing games."