Speaker Says Courts Weaponized Against Trump, Cohen Selling T-shirts of Trump Behind Bars, Sorority Sued for Allowing “Transgender Female” Member | May 14

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: House Speaker Mike Johnson says the judicial system is weaponized against Donald Trump. Michael Cohen is selling T-shirts with an image of Donald Trump behind bars wearing an orange jumpsuit. Prosecutors ask judge to order Steve Bannon to begin prison sentence for contempt of Congress charge. Supreme Court hears case of sorority members suing national sorority for allowing “transgender female” member. 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	I'm Brian Godstein and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Tuesday, May 14th.
0:07.0	Here are today's headlines. House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke in New York on Tuesday to condemn the
0:24.5	hush money criminal trial against former President Donald Trump.
0:27.8	Dilly signals Jarrett Steppman reported that Johnson blasted the trial as a sham and said that it's being used to
0:34.6	manipulate the 2024 presidential election. I'm an attorney, I'm a former
0:39.7	litigator myself, I am disgusted by what is happening here. What is being done here to our entire
0:45.8	system of justice overall. The people are losing faith right now in this country
0:50.3	in our institutions. They're losing faith in our system of justice. And the reason
0:55.7	for that is because they see it being abused as it is being done here in New York. The facts here
1:01.7	are very important. Facts are always important in a trial or at least they're supposed to be.
1:06.0	The President's actions in this matter were previously reviewed and no charges were filed.
1:12.0	Why is that? Because there's no crime here. Now eight years
1:17.0	later suddenly they've resurrected this thing. They brought it back and why is that?
1:21.7	Well just apply common sense everyone can see.
1:25.0	It's painfully obvious that we're now six months out from an election day.
1:30.0	And that's the reason.
1:31.0	That is the reason why they brought these charges here and across the country.
1:35.0	What we've got here is a partisan Democrat district attorney.
1:40.0	We have a Biden donor judge, and we have an assistant DA who was recently
1:47.1	a top official at the Department of Justice, Biden's DOJ, and recently received over
1:52.4	$10,000 in payments from the Democratic National Committee.
1:57.0	The star witness here is Michael Cohen.
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