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Trump Indicted Again, Court Rules Pro-Lifers and BLM Activists Must Be Treated Same, Schumer Calls for Short-Term Spending Bill

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Trump has been indicted again. A court rules that Washington, D.C. must treat pro-life activists and Black Lives Matter activists the same. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants a short-term spending bill. President Biden will visit Hawaii. 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 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 John Popp and I'm Kate Trinco and this is the daily signal top news for Tuesday, August 15th.

0:08.0

Here are today's headlines.

0:12.0

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted again. This indictment came from a Georgia

0:26.6

grand jury late Monday night and included 18 other defendants. Among those indicted were

0:31.7

former attorney Rudy Giuliani and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Fulton County

0:37.0

District Attorney Fannie Willis, who launched the investigation, says she wants to try all

0:41.8

of the defendants. This is the fourth Trump indictment. In this case, charges revolve

0:46.8

around the Racketeer, Influenced, and Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO. RICO is typically

0:52.6

used in cases to prosecute organized crime. This case claims that Trump and his indicted

0:57.7

allies attempted to put pressure on state election workers to find fraudulent votes and change

1:03.0

the results of the presidential election in Georgia. Trump commented on the case through

1:07.4

the social media platform True Social. So the witch hunt continues, he said, 19 people

1:12.6

indicted tonight, including the former president of the United States, Me, by an out of control

1:17.8

and very corrupt district attorney who campaigned and raised money on, I will get Trump. Trump

1:23.3

now faces 91 charges from his four indictments. A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the

1:29.4

District of Columbia unevenly enforced its so-called Defeatment ordinances against anti-abortion

1:35.4

groups and that the city treated pro-life protesters more harshly than Black Lives Matter activists,

1:42.1

reported Fox News. This reverses a lower courts dismissal of a complaint filed by

1:47.6

the Frederick Douglass Foundation. The Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America

1:53.0

filed the lawsuit against Washington D.C. after two pro-life activists were arrested on August

1:58.6

1, 2020 for writing on the sidewalk with chalk, Black pre-born Lives Matter near a planned

2:04.8

parenthood. The court's decision read, in the summer of 2020, thousands of protesters flooded

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