The Daily Signal - Trump’s Legal Troubles, Wildfires Kill 2, ACLU Launches Pro-Illegal Alien PR Campaign | Jan. 8

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

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We'd love to talk, business. Trump's lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to delay sentencing in his New York case. I'm Fred and Allen and this is the Daily City Bill's Top News in 10 for Wednesday, January 8th. Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president in less than two weeks, but that does not mean that his legal troubles have gone away. Yesterday, we reported that a judge had temporarily blocked the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents. But Smith wrote two reports, one on the classified documents and one on the case accusing Trump of interfering with the 2020 election results.

The Justice Department said today that it does plan to publicly release the report on Trump's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2020 election. Here are this to explain more is Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow, Zach Smith. Hey, Zach. Hey, Virginia. Thanks for having me on the show today. It's great to have you back. Well, Zach, for now, Special Counsel Jack Smith, reported on this classified document case. It's staying out of the hands of the public. So then why is the report on the election interference investigation being released?

Why did the judge block the release of one of the reports, but not the other? Yeah, so the judge in South Florida, Judge Eileen Cannon, who's overseeing the Moroago classified document's case, she blocked the release of that report because there are still two co-edictors. defendants facing criminal charges. When Jack Smith declined to pursue that case against Donald Trump any further, he unfortunately left the charges in place for Donald Trump's two co-defendants. And so Judge Cannon said, because those charges are still pending, it would unduly prejudice them and their ability to get a fair trial if that report were to come out. And so because of that, she blocked the release of that report. No such order was entered in the election interference case

out of Washington, D.C. And so that's likely why, Eric Garland and the Biden Justice Department plans to move forward with publicly releasing that report. I know guessing games are a very dangerous game to play, not always helpful. But any educated guesses on what is in Jack Smith's report as it relates to Trump allegedly interfering with the results of the 2020 election? I suspect it won't be much that we haven't seen or heard whisperings of before. You may see a little more detail, and I'm sure it will be presented in a way. much more inflammatory manner designed to cast Donald Trump and those involved in the case in the least favorable light possible. It may also be packaged in a way that's a little more consumer-friendly

for those who want to read the report. Keep in mind the Mueller report when it came out was actually bound and published and available in bookstores and online for those who are interested in wanting to read it. And so you may see those types of things taking place with this report when it's released. But I suspect there won't be much new there that we haven't previously known to some extent before. Zach, I also want to take a minute to get your thoughts on some additional legal developments for President-elect Donald Trump. We have seen developments in this case out of New York. It's the case that's often referred to as Trump's hush money case where he paid Stormy Daniels to sign off on a non-disclosure agreement. Trump was convicted on 34

counts last May for falsifying business records. And the sentencing for that case was supposed to happen this Friday. Now, Trump's legal team, they're working to postpone this sentencing until after the inauguration. The court in New York said no to that appeal. So now Trump's team is asking the Supreme Court to intervene and postpone that sentencing. Their argument is that the sentencing will restrict Trump as he's preparing to take office and be sworn in on January 20th. What are the legal options that the Supreme Court has here?

Well, look, Virginia, I think it's important to keep in mind why Judge Mershahn in New York is so intent on going forward with this sentencing. Under New York law, and as this common practice, a formal judgment of conviction isn't entered until after a criminal defendant has been sentenced. And so in order for this felony conviction of Donald Trump to formally take effect and be cemented in place, there has to be a sentencing. And that's why, I think Judge Mershon and out of the court. are so anxious to have this sentencing taking place.

Now, there are a number of issues that are unique, that are unprecedented in a lot of ways. The Supreme Court could order the sentencing not to take place. The Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court, may not have to intervene in a somewhat unique situation. At the same time, Trump and his lawyers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. They're also asking Europe's highest state court to intervene as well. But given the short time frame, I suspect they're moving forward aggressively to try to stop this sentencing from taking place at all later this week on a Friday. What's interesting is that

U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, she's ordered Alvin Bragg and his legal team to respond by Thursday morning. So we should have a better idea, hopefully, of what the U.S. Supreme Court will do in relatively short order. Wonderful. Well, Zach, thank you, as always for your time. Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow, Zach Smith. Thanks for having me all. While the East Coast and Midwest have been getting snow, the West Coast is dealing with major wildfires. In Los Angeles County, two people have been killed, and 1,000 homes, businesses and other buildings have been destroyed by the fires. That's according to the Los Angeles Times.

The Times also reports that there are currently five wildfires that are burning in Southern California, and some of those fires actually just started today. The fires have been able to spread so rapidly. because Southern California has been hit with some very high wind gusts of up to 100 miles per hour. The largest fire is the Palisades Fire, and it's only been burning since yesterday, but has already burned over 11,000 acres. And the Eaton Fire is the second largest and has burned over 10,000 acres. Biden was actually in California today and visited a fire station in the Los Angeles area. He delivered some brief remarks, but he wasn't actually miced during those remarks.

so we're not going to play them for you because the audio quality was very poor. But then after his brief remarks, California Governor Gavin Newsom thanked the president for his support. Yesterday, Biden wrote on X that he had offered California any federal assistance that it needed in order to help as it tries to fight these wildfires. As of this afternoon, firefighters had zero control of the Palisades fire, which again is the largest and currently most destructive fire that's burning in Southern California. With Donald Trump's inauguration just around the corner, the immigration issue is front and center, and it's not going away anytime soon. The leftist legal group, the ACLU, has created a new multimedia campaign to tell the stories of illegal aliens. The group is aiming to build momentum in both the courts of justice and the courts of public opinion to slow Trump's plans to deport illegal aliens. Axios reports that the pro-illegal illegal aliens.

Immigration Group has created a video in Spanish of a mother telling her story by reading a letter to the U.S. public. The video ends with a plea to not force her and her daughter to return to a violent village overrun by gangs. Here, she is saying that she is grateful for the life that she has started in America. The ACLU's director of border strategies told Axios that the campaign seeks to humanize immigrants beyond the caricatures of stereotypes it says politicians use. More than 10 million illegal aliens have entered the country under the Biden administration. And Trump and his incoming borders are Tom Homan have pledged to deport many illegal aliens, beginning with those who have committed crimes in the United States. Now let's imagine this.

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Five presidents, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden are expected to attend the state funeral tomorrow. With that, that'll do it for today's episode. Thanks for joining us here for the Daily Signal's Top News in 10. Today's episode was edited by John Pock and produced by Brian Gottstein. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you never miss out on Broadway. brand new shows from the Daily Signal podcast, whether Top News in 10 or our weekend interview editions. Thanks again for joining us today. We'll see you right back here tomorrow.