I'm Samantha Sharis and I'm Virginia Allen and this is the daily signal top news for Tuesday, July 18th.

Here are today's headlines.

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social he has received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith.

Trump said, deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden's DOJ, sent a letter, again it was Sunday night, stating that I am a target of the January 6th grand jury investigation, and giving me a very short four days to report to the grand jury, which almost always means an arrest and indictment.

The former president also said nothing like this has ever happened in our country before, or even close.

CBS News reports that Smith's office has been investigating a December 2020 Oval Office meeting, where the former president discussed bringing in attorney Sidney Powell, a special counsel at the White House and seizing voting machines by an executive order.

CBS News also reports that special counsel investigators are digging into whether Trump believed the fraudulent claims of election fraud raised at that meeting, weeks ahead of January 6th, even though White House lawyers told him in person that night, and after the claims were not true.

In another Truth social post from this morning, Trump said, witch hunt, crooked Joe Biden and his injustice department want to indict and arrest his presumed political opponent, me.

Who is leading him in the polls in the upcoming presidential election of 2024.

We will keep you updated as the story develops.

And in other Trump-related news today, the former president's lawyers appear before court today for the classified documents case.

Reuters reported ahead of the appearance that our federal judge will begin considering how to hold a trial of Trump for his handling of classified documents while also ensuring top secret information is not exposed.

As we previously reported here on the show, special counsel Jack Smith made public a 37-count indictment against the former president.

The counts include allegations of willful retention of national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act, one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, one count of withholding a document or record, one count of corruptly concealing a document, one count of concealing a document and a federal investigation, one count of a scheme to conceal and one count of false statements and representations.

Trump's aid, while Nada, is named in five counts in the indictment.

The former president took to true social on Monday and said, if I'm being prosecuted over documents and I shouldn't be in that I come under the Presidential Records Act, why is Joe Biden not being prosecuted? He was egregious.

Of course, we will keep you all posted as this situation develops.

Ohio Republican Senator JD Vance has unveiled legislation aimed at banning gender reassignment surgeries for minors.

That's according to exclusive reporting from the Daily Caller.

The bill, known as the Protect Children's Innocence Act, aims to prohibit gender affirming care on minors and for other purposes.

Vance told the Daily Caller ahead of introducing the legislation, under no circumstances should doctors be allowed to perform these gruesome,

irreversible operations on underage children. With this legislation, we have an opportunity to save countless young Americans from a lifetime of suffering and regret.

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