Jury Deliberates on Trump Criminal Case, GOP Legislators Question Trump Trial Judge, Alito Won’t Recuse Himself | May 29

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Trump hush money trial has reached its conclusion Justice Alito says he won’t recuse himself in election of Jan. 6 cases Sen. J.D. Vance questions the gag order used in Trump’s trial. Rep. ELise Stefanik demands answers about why Judge Merchan keeps getting Trump-related cases. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, May 29th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:07.0	Former President Donald Trump is at the top of our headlines today. In a courtroom in Manhattan a jury is deliberating on the criminal case of Donald Trump
0:26.4	Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 felony counts of
0:31.2	falsifying business records in relation to alleged
0:34.5	hush money payments to porn start Stormy Daniels. Now the jury will
0:38.8	decide if Trump is guilty or innocent. Closing arguments in the case concluded around 8 p.m. last night and
0:45.3	outside the courtroom this morning, Trump spoke to reporters and called the case
0:49.5	rigged per Fox News. These charges are rigged.
0:53.0	The whole thing is rigged.
0:55.0	The whole country is a mess between the borders and fake elections and you have a trial like this
1:02.0	where the judge is so conflicted he can't breathe
1:05.3	he's got to do his job and it's not for me that I can tell you it's a disgrace and I
1:12.3	mean that mother to race it not beat those charges, but we'll see. We'll see how we do.
1:17.0	Joining us now to discuss the case and what to expect from the jury is former prosecutor and Heritage Foundation senior
1:24.9	legal fellow Zach Smith.
1:26.8	Zach, thanks for being here.
1:28.4	Of course, thanks for having me on.
1:30.2	Zach, what do you make of Trump saying even Mother Theresa couldn't beat these charges?
1:35.8	Well, it's certainly a, you know, par for the course with President Trump's way with words
1:41.6	he has, but I do think it's an
1:43.4	acknowledgement that he's facing a very tough jury pool here. This is a Manhattan
1:47.6	jury, one that is likely not to be very favorable to Donald Trump. I think it's
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