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🗓️ 21 July 2023

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The trial date for former President Donald Trump is set for May 20, 2024. Lawmakers say the White House changed its press pass policy knowing it would limit the access of conservative reporters. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asks the head of Florida’s State Board of Administration to review its shareholdings with Bud Light’s parent company AB InBev. Tony Bennett passes away at 96. 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 Virginia Allen and this is the daily single top news for Friday, July 21st.
0:07.6	Here are today's headlines.
0:21.0	The trial date for former president Donald Trump is set and neither prosecutors or Trump's
0:27.1	legal team are getting their way.
0:29.2	The trial is set for May 20th of next year, but prosecutors at the Department of Justice
0:34.6	had asked the judge for a trial this December, while Trump's legal team asked for the trial
0:40.2	to be postponed until after the 2024 presidential election.
0:44.8	Trump is facing a 37-count indictment, and many of those counts have to do with Trump holding
0:50.8	on to classify documents.
0:53.2	The counts include allegations of willful retention of national defense information and violation
0:59.6	of the S.B. and Aj Act, one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, one count of withholding
1:06.0	a document or record, one count of corruptly concealing a document, one count of concealing
1:13.0	a document in a federal investigation, one count of a scheme to conceal, and one count
1:19.5	of false statement and representations.
1:22.9	Trump pled not guilty to all of the charges he is facing.
1:27.0	The May 20th trial date is an interesting compromise.
1:30.6	Most of the voting in the 2024 presidential primary will be over by then, but the Republican
1:37.0	candidate won't be officially announced, though it is likely that we'll know by and
1:42.7	large who the candidate will be by that point.
1:46.4	According to the Associated Press, the judge said the December date the Department of Justice
1:51.6	had asked for was a typically accelerated and inconsistent with ensuring a fair trial.
1:59.3	Trump's lawyers argued December did not give them enough time to review all the material
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