Happy Monday, I’m Eriq Gardner.

Welcome back to The Rainmaker, a private email about money, power, fame, and, most of all, the law. (If you’re not already a subscriber, click this link if you’d like to get this newsletter weekly.)

In this week’s edition, news and notes on some politically-flavored legal dramas: Will the Trump criminal trials be televised? And will Mike Lindell, a.k.a. “The My Pillow Guy,” be forced to pay up after losing his $5 million “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge?

Also mentioned in this email: Carl Icahn, Hunter Biden, Vivek Murthy, Louis Farrakhan, Electric Avenue, Anna Gomez, Taylor Swift, and some bad news about your homemade Star Trek movie.

But first…

• ConvictionGPT: The prosecution of Pras Michel has been a thrilling potboiler—so exciting, in fact, that at one point the ex-Fugees rapper tried to pay for his legal defense by selling his life story. But the latest development, following his conviction for...