The court in New York is currently trying Donald Trump on charges that are completely specious — charges that, effectively speaking, he paid off Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election for electoral purposes as opposed to personal purposes, charges that have not been sustained by any sort of federal criminal prosecution against Trump. What is all that really about? What it’s about is humiliating Donald Trump. I don’t know why Democrats seem to think this is going to affect Trump in any way, shape, or form. Trump has been part of the seamier side of American politics and business for decades. There’s a reason he was in a tape for Playboy. There is a reason he was seen as a Studio 54 guy for years and years. It’s not as though Trump has led the most pristine sexual life. And no one at this point is surprised by any of the allegations that were made in court yesterday. But that did not stop Democrats from dragging Stormy Daniels into court. She is the heroine of the Republic because, as it turns out, all it takes to be a heroine in American life now is to be a porn star who has sex with a married man and then effectively blackmails that married man for money. And then, when the deal fell through, Daniels decided to go public with all of that to harm him. That is what heroism truly is, so long as that married man is a Republican. If the married man is a Democrat, as we all know, it’s time to wreck the woman. If that married man is Bill Clinton, then it’s time to completely wreck Monica Lewinsky’s life. That is how this works. All of this came to a head yesterday. Prior to going into court yesterday, Trump suggested all of this was coming out of the “crooked Biden White House.” The orders may not have come directly from the White House, but it is very clear that Democrats in the city of New York have decided they are going to engage in electoral interference. That’s what this stupid case is. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show Trump went into the courtroom where the judge, who is absolutely oriented against Trump at this particular trial, decided to allow the testimony of Stormy Daniels. To be extremely clear, there is no legal reason Stormy Daniels had to testify. She brought nothing useful to the court. There was no reason whatsoever for her to be in the courtroom. Whether or not she had sex with Trump is completely irrelevant to the charges that are being brought because they are about whether he — via his lawyer Michael Cohen — paid her off prior to the election and then reimbursed Cohen after the election, and whether it was a campaign finance expense as opposed to a personal payoff designed to quash the rumors so as not to bother his wife, Melania. The case the defense is making is that this is the kind of payment that is constantly made in American life. It can’t just be pinned on the election. The case the prosecution is trying to make is that this was all about stealing the 2016 election by silencing Daniels, as though any of the Daniels material coming out prior to the 2016 election would have saved Hillary Clinton, which we know is not the truth because there was a tape of Trump talking about grabbing women by their genitals and he still won. You think a tryst with a porn star would have changed the outcome in 2016? Daniels talked about her sexual tryst with Trump in 2006. Now, you may be asking yourself, isn’t the year 2024? Wasn’t this affair almost two decades ago? What the hell are we talking about Trump’s 2006 sex life for? That’s because you’re a rational human being. We’re talking about Trump’s 2006 sex life because the Democrats need some hook to hang their hat on to claim he’s a convicted felon. They charged him with 34 counts of felony campaign finance violation in the city of New York. The plan was to get Stormy Daniels in the room saying shameful things about Donald Trump. This whole thing was a put-up job. It was all designed so Daniels could unspool this bizarre story about the one time she slept with the future president, the time she spanked him with a rolled up magazine. Her original story was that they had this awkward encounter she didn’t really enjoy, but she didn’t say no. Now, she treats it as though it’s a quasi-rape. During her testimony, Daniels stated, “I was staring at the ceiling. I didn’t know how I got there.” Really? She went up to his room and then didn’t say no as he had sex with her. She has had sex with people on camera for a living. This was not her first rodeo. The attempt to turn Daniels into a resistance hero is quite pathetic. It’s designed to be a laugh line for the Left wing, which is why journalists spent the day guffawing at Trump. I’m going to put it out there as a warning to people on the Left laughing at Donald Trump: The last time you laughed at Donald Trump, when Barack Obama made a joke about him at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump got angry, ran for president, and became president. So good luck with the laughter. If this is the best the Democrats have, they ain’t got nothing.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that Democrats are trying to interfere in the upcoming presidential election because they are terrified at the prospect of former President Donald Trump regaining the White House. Cruz made the remarks during the most recent episode of his “Verdict” podcast this week with co-host Ben Ferguson. Speaking of the criminal trial that Trump faces in New York State over an alleged hush money payment that he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, Cruz said: “This is happening because Democrats are terrified that the American people are going to vote for Donald Trump in November. And they are trying to interfere with the election. They’re trying to stop the election. They’re trying to do everything they can to stop Trump from being reelected.” “Everything Biden’s touched has gone to crap. It’s been a train wreck,” Cruz added. “The policy agenda has been terrible. We’ve seen inflation out of control, crime out of control, the border out of control. We’ve seen relentless partisans, an attack on our constitutional rights, an attack on free speech and religious liberty, on the Second Amendment. And that’s not to mention the utter chaos and disaster foreign policy and national security is, whether it’s the Afghanistan debacle, or Ukraine, or the horrors unfolding in Israel. Everything Joe Biden has touched has gone to crap.” He said that because Biden’s record was so terrible, Democrats don’t want to talk about it and would rather use this trial to smear Trump. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “Not a single elected Democrat in Washington gives a damn about the rule of law,” he said. Democrats are prosecuting Donald Trump because they are terrified that voters will reelect him in November. Everything Biden touches turns to crap: just look at our southern border and inflation. Biden can’t run on his record, so he is attacking Trump.https://t.co/g0GXyxU0De pic.twitter.com/HnSCAgzNLH — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 8, 2024

Disgraced St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is apparently missing in action as Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick has made multiple attempts to locate her to ask questions about an ongoing audit of her former office. Gardner’s office has been under investigation since 2021, when former Auditor Nicole Galloway was still in office. Fitzpatrick stepped into the role in 2023, and subpoenaed a number of records from Gardner’s office – but the office reportedly only delivered some of the requested documents. Fitzpatrick took Gardner to court in order to get the remaining information, but instead of cooperating with the investigation, she resigned from office in May of 2023. In the months since, Fitzpatrick has attempted to reach Gardner — either directly or through her attorneys — and has had no luck. “This is a pattern of behavior with Kim Gardner, who hasn’t shown a willingness to be transparent or accountable,” Fitzpatrick said in a news release on Monday. “Without question, she knows our audit is ongoing and that we want to speak with her about her time in office, but she has made no effort to comply with our requests or respond to our inquiries.” Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe (R-MO) — who is currently running for governor — called out the former circuit attorney via X: “Where in the world is Kim Gardner? Dodging @FitzpatrickMO, apparently. Typical behavior for someone who refused to do her job.” Where in the world is Kim Gardner? Dodging @FitzpatrickMO, apparently. Typical behavior for someone who refused to do her job. https://t.co/mR932Y0YBd — Mike Kehoe (@MikeLKehoe) May 6, 2024 “As I said when she abruptly resigned from office to avoid complying with a subpoena we were prepared to petition the court to enforce, Kim Gardner will be held accountable and we will do everything we can to make sure she answers for her time as Circuit Attorney,” Fitzpatrick said. “Right now her location is unknown and all efforts to reach out to her have been unsuccessful. However, we will do everything we can to locate her and get the answers to our inquiries that only she can provide and that taxpayers deserve.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Fitzpatrick has said that he plans to file his report with or without Gardner’s cooperation, but he has continued to try to reach her because he believes the citizens of Missouri deserve the clarification that she could potentially provide. “I hope she will reconsider her decision to ignore the responsibility she has to cooperate with our audit process and come forward to provide answers to us and to the people of St. Louis,” Fitzpatrick said — and he asked anyone who might know how to reach Gardner to call the State Auditor’s Whistleblower Hotline at 800-347-8597 or email his office at moaudit@auditor.mo.gov. WATCH:

On Wednesday, the GOP-led House quickly defeated a bid by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from his top perch. Within an hour of Greene declaring that she was going through with her motion to vacate the chair — an announcement met by a wave of boos in the chamber — members overwhelmingly voted to table the measure by a 359-43 tally. The measure was introduced in a privileged fashion, meaning leadership had two legislative days to act on it, similar to what Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) did last year to queue up a vote that led to Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker. Unlike what happened with McCarthy, who lacked support from across the aisle when he was forced out of the role, Johnson had the backing of Democrats who said they would vote to table a motion to vacate the chair brought by Greene. He also got a boost from former President Donald Trump, now the likely GOP nominee in the 2024 election, who stood with Johnson at Mar-a-Lago in April and said the speaker was “doing a very good job.” When the vote finally did take place, 196 Republicans and 163 Democrats voted to table the motion from Greene. Eleven Republicans and 32 Democrats opposed it. Ten Republicans and 11 Democrats did not vote. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “I want to say that I appreciate the show of confidence for my colleagues to defeat this misguided effort. That is certainly what it was,” Johnson told reporters after the vote. Greene had been talking about using the motion to vacate against Johnson ever since late March when the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package. At least two other Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ), supported Greene last month as she refused to relent on her campaign against Johnson. Johnson and Greene met over the past couple days during which Greene made a series of what she said were “suggestions,” including defunding special counsel Jack Smith’s inquiries into Trump and no more financial aid for Ukraine. Recent polling from Monmouth University showed just one in five Americans wanted Johnson to be replaced as speaker. Trump posted to Truth Social on Wednesday, around the time of the vote on tabling Greene’s motion, complimenting Johnson, as well as Greene. He also called attention to the slim majority the GOP has in the House while pushing for unity.

Former Rep. Bakari Sellers (D-SC) made an appearance on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The View,” where he claimed that Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro and OutKick founder Clay Travis lacked the “intellect” to have honest discussions — and now Shapiro would like a word. Joy Behar began the conversation, noting that ousted Fox News Tucker Carlson had accused Sellers of using his platform as a CNN political analyst to “monetize racism.” Sellers objected, claiming that Carlson was the one monetizing racism when he talked about the Great Replacement Theory. “It’s rooted in white supremacy, and it’s fear. It’s grievance,” Sellers said, claiming that all it did was foment hate. He went on to call out both Travis and Shapiro by name as host Whoopi Goldberg appeared to shake her head and laugh. “And the problem is that they have ads that play before and ads that play after, and you have these individuals — the Clay Travises of the world, the Ben Shapiros of the world, who don’t necessarily have the intellect to have honest discussions, but yet they are able to become millionaires because they’re actually just circulizing and promulgating this fear.” Shapiro responded a short time later, posting on X, “Hey, @theview, would love to come on to discuss. It’ll be tough, but I’m ready to take on this extraordinary intellectual challenge.” WATCH: Hey, @theview, would love to come on to discuss. It’ll be tough, but I’m ready to take on this extraordinary intellectual challenge. pic.twitter.com/GIqH3NSbSc — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 8, 2024 Wednesday marked the latest episode in the ongoing saga, as former cohost Meghan McCain had tried (but failed) several times to convince producers to invite Shapiro to join the show as a guest. Despite their steadfast refusal to speak to him directly, the cohosts appear only too happy to call him out from the safety of their table. Travis also responded to Sellers’ comments, saying that he too would be happy to step up to the table on the ABC midday talk show. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “Even with my lowly intellectual capacity, I would go on The View and have a debate with the hosts. Would be incredible TV. Given my intelligence was just directly attacked by name on their show, it seems only fair to allow me on and let their audience decide what to think of me,” he said. Even with my lowly intellectual capacity, I would go on The View and have a debate with the hosts. Would be incredible TV. Given my intelligence was just directly attacked by name on their show, it seems only fair to allow me on and let their audience decide what to think of me. — Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 8, 2024

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, teed off on far-left activists with Code Pink on Wednesday who were harassing her while she was trying to use the elevator that only members of Congress are allowed on. Code Pink has been on Capitol Hill all week harassing members of Congress over their support for Israel and their stand against the pro-Hamas protesters who took over college campuses late last month and earlier this month. “Don’t even think about it, I’ve got things to do,” the 80-year-old congresswoman warned the activists as they approached her while she was waiting for the elevator. The activists hounded her by drawing an equivalence between anti-Semitism and “anti-Islamophobia” — even though one is discriminatory and the other is anti-discriminatory. One of the activists tried to get on the elevator with her. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “You’re not welcome on this elevator, it’s a members only,” Foxx said to the activist. As the activist tried to talk over her, Foxx took control of the situation, shouting: “Members only! Off the elevator! I have work to do!” When the protesters did not listen, Foxx got law enforcement’s attention: “Officer! Officer! Officer! Officer!” WATCH: Rep. Virginia Foxx doesn’t tolerate Code Pink activists who are harassing members of Congress. pic.twitter.com/ct96hajyrG — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 8, 2024

President Joe Biden threatened to cut Israel off this week from receiving U.S. military weapons if they enter Rafah to finish off Hamas’ last stronghold inside Gaza. Biden made the remarks during an interview Wednesday evening with CNN’s Erin Burnett after news broke earlier this week that he was halting a shipment of bombs and other equipment to Israel to send a political message to them. CNN asked Biden if the 2,000-pound bombs that the U.S. has sent to Israel have killed civilians inside Gaza. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as the consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden said in an apparent attempt to smear America’s top ally in the region, which comes as he faces mounting pressure from the Islamic/anti-Semitic progressive-wing of the Democrat Party to take action against Israel. Israel does not target “population centers,” they take exhaustive steps to warn civilians that they need to leave specific areas before they conduct military operations. No where in Biden’s remarks did the president mention that Hamas intentionally hides behind civilians thus making it impossible for Israel to hold the Palestinian Islamic terrorist organization accountable for the unprecedented terrorist attack that it launched on October 7 without there being collateral damage. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “And I made it clear that, if they go into Rafah — they haven’t gone into Rafah yet — if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem,” he continued, adding that he would only do the bare minimum by continuing to supply Israel with Iron Dome missiles. “But it’s — it’s — it’s just wrong,” Biden said of Israel’s military campaign against Hamas. “We’re not gonna — we’re not gonna supply the weapons and the artillery shells used that have been used.” The 81-year-old president, who repeatedly coughed throughout the interview, is now reportedly considering importing Palestinian refugees into the U.S. despite their overwhelming hatred for the country, according to polling. WATCH: #BREAKING: Biden tells CNN that he will not only continue to pause shipments of bombs to Israel, but also hold up artillery shells because what the IDF has done and wants to do is “just wrong”…. CNN’s Erin Burnett: “I want to ask you about something happening as we sit here… pic.twitter.com/vqxewKM7CU — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 8, 2024

A far-Left activist at Princeton University cried on a bullhorn on Wednesday over a hunger strike that she and others decided to do in a desperate attempt to get the school to take actions that they want related to Israel and pro-Hamas protesters on campus. The students, who showed signs of cracking after only a few days of participating in the hunger strike, banged on drums and chanted: “The people united will never be defeated!” “This is absolutely unfair,” said a female activist who was wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh. “My peers and I, we are starving, we are physically exhausted. I’m quite literally shaking right now, as you can see.” “We are both cold and hot at the same time,” she cried. “We are all immunocompromised. And based off the university’s meeting yesterday with some of our bargaining team, they would love to continue physically weakening us because they can’t stand to say no to unjust murder.” She claimed that she “truly” does “not feel like I am doing anything special. This is my choice and I would not spend my birthday doing anything other than being here and standing in solidarity with you all, and standing in solidarity with our siblings and innocent people in Gaza.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “No matter how physically weak we may be, united we have never been stronger, our resolve has never been stronger,” she said. WATCH: Princeton student pretends to CRY as she blames the university for her hunger strike: “This is absolutely unfair. My peers are I are starving. We are physically exhausted. I’m literally shaking right now as you can see. We are both cold and hot at the same time.” pic.twitter.com/YOHGNIpyZW — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 8, 2024

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis went to an area where pro-Hamas protesters tried to set up an encampment at the University of Florida recently and declared victory over the far-Left extremists. DeSantis made the remarks in Gainesville where he noted that the encampment the pro-Hamas protesters tried to set up only lasted a few minutes, a far cry from encampments set up at major left-wing universities, some of which lasted well over a week. “In the state of Florida, you do not have a right to commandeer property,” he said. “You don’t have a right to go take over parts of the university. You don’t have a right to go after other students based on their ethnicity. And we’re gonna ensure that that’s upheld in the state of Florida.” “Now, if you look around the country, you have a lot of elite colleges and universities that have allowed themselves to become overrun with encampments, graffiti, as well as a lot of really nasty anti-Semitism at Columbia,” he continued. “Pro-Hamas activists stormed buildings, took cleaning staff hostage, and destroyed iconic academic halls. At UCLA, Jewish students were barred from entering buildings on campus by pro-Hamas activists. At Portland State, the library was taken over and subsequently trashed by vagrants who weren’t even students of the university to begin with. And we see some of the chants that are done at these universities, such as, ‘From the river to the sea.’ Some are saying, ‘We don’t want no two-state.'” He said that those who chant things like “from the river to the sea” want a second Holocaust against the Jews and are calling for Israel to be wiped off the map. DeSantis continued bashing the pro-Hamas protesters at other schools: “You also see really disrespectful behavior at UNC, agitators removed the American flag and replaced it with a Palestinian flag. Now, how disrespectful is that to people that have fought and died for this country? At George Washington University, some of these agitators desecrated a statue of the father of our country, George Washington. Talk about disrespect for somebody who is really responsible more than anyone else to ensure that we have America.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “Even in New York City, you have a pro-Hamas people, they go to the World War I memorial and burn the American flag — just disrespectful conduct,”  he said. “Now, one of the things we’ve seen around the country is some of the people who are doing this aren’t even students of the university. So why would you have people who aren’t even students hijack your university for their agenda? That makes no sense whatsoever. So we’ve seen a lot of failures of leadership. We’ve seen some of these schools get overrun. That is not happening here in the state of Florida. You are going to behave appropriately, or if not, you’re gonna be shown the door. If we have a student that would take a janitor hostage like they did at Columbia University, the only appropriate response is that student is expelled immediately.” He added that the “nonsense” that takes place in other states will not be tolerated in Florida. WATCH: NEW: Governor DeSantis speaks at the University of Florida, facing an angry mob of protesters — and making it clear that Florida will not cave to the fringe just because they yell the loudest. @GovRonDeSantis noted that these protests are not just criticizing Israel, across… pic.twitter.com/OVMbJaVjrZ — Christina Pushaw ? ?? (@ChristinaPushaw) May 8, 2024

Megyn Kelly said “we need a guy like Birchum more than ever” as she sat down with her fellow cast members of The Daily Wire’s first animated sitcom series “Mr. Birchum,” the show that will go where mainstream comedy won’t. During “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast on Sirius XM on Wednesday, the host spoke with Adam Carolla, the creator of the new series about the no-nonsense junior high woodshop teacher, Mr. Birchum, who’s firmly rooted in his traditional convictions and fearlessly confronts a world he deems baffling and mediocre. Carolla told Kelly that the idea of the character he voices was based on “all the shop teachers I had in junior high school,” who he said were these “tough, scary, big forearm guys who hated kids and were mean as hell.”  “But [they] liked the idea of getting paid to be indoors around this equipment and work in a wood shop,” Carolla added. “So, these are guys who didn’t go to college. Never wanted to work with kids. Didn’t want to mold society or help shape youth.” “So, I always had in my head that it was a funny archetype that here were these guys going to school everyday to work with kids but they hated them,” Carolla continued. Kelly pointed out the insanity of the radical anti-Israel protesters on college campuses across the country and said the country needs more Birchums in school. “I will say, the timing for this is perfect,” the host said. “But we need a guy like Birchum more than ever. We could use more like Mr. Birchum in our K-12 and college education right now because we are producing a bunch of soft [people].” One such person Mr. Birchum must face off with regularly is the extremely woke Karponzi, a fanatical social justice warrior, played by comedian Tyler Fischer. Carolla told Kelly that Karponzi basically represents “society at large.”  “Karponzi is really a compilation of all the idiots who have been trying to force this [woke] stuff down our throat for the last 10 years,” Carolla said. “His character represents everybody who was wrong about COVID-19, [wrong about] anything that comes down the pike.” Created by Carolla more than a decade ago, “Mr. Birchum” has a star-studded cast that includes Kelly, Fischer, Roseanne Barr, Jay Mohr, Kyle Dunnigan, Daily Wire’s Brett Cooper, Danny Trejo, Sage Steele, and more. For decades no network would touch @adamcarolla’s animated sitcom “Mr. Birchum” for fear of offending the wrong people. Fortunately, we love offending the wrong people, so on 5/12 @DailyWirePlus is bringing him back. Tune in for the premiere, Sunday at 9pm ET. Ep. 1 is free,… pic.twitter.com/tixn2Le2KK — Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) May 7, 2024 Cooper was also on the show where she and Kelly joked about being mom and daughter on “Mr. Birchum,” with Cooper voicing Birchum’s daughter and Kelly his wife. The Daily Wire host said she grew up as a child actor in Los Angeles for ten years and later went to college at UCLA. During the pandemic, she said her life changed and it was then she decided to speak out about “politics, values, current events, and culture” by making videos online, becoming a voice for the Right for a generation that was inundated with leftist ideology. “When COVID started happening I was faced with a lot of anger and hatred from friends at college,” Cooper said. “These were close friends I was about to live with next year…and all of that sort of blew up in my face. I was like ‘Oh, my gosh I disagree with all of you.'” Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing, who is the executive producer of the series posted on X Tuesday, writing, “For decades no network would touch @adamcarolla’s animated sitcom ‘Mr. Birchum’ for fear of offending the wrong people. Fortunately, we love offending the wrong people, so on 5/12 @DailyWirePlus is bringing him back.” “Mr. Birchum” will premiere exclusively on the DailyWire+ this Sunday, May 12, at 9/8 Central. Related: PHOTOS: Star-Studded ‘Mr. Birchum’ Premiere In L.A. Creates Buzz For Adam Carolla’s New Comedy