7 Top Takeaways From Trump’s UN Speech for Friends and Foes Alike

Plus: Losing the Presumption of Innocence

Sep 26, 2018   Good morning from Washington, where even his critics think President Trump represented responsible nationhood well at the United Nations. Fred Lucas has highlights, while Brett Schaefer analyzes on the podcast. It's the day before Brett Kavanaugh is expected to fight generation-old accusations for a seat on the Supreme Court. In separate commentaries, Thomas Jipping bemoans an assumption of guilt and Democrats' all-out opposition. Plus: Major Garrett of CBS News on covering the Trump presidency, Jarrett Stepman and Fred Lucas on the "right side" of presidential media wrangling, and Walter Williams on the return of segregation.     News 7 Top Takeaways From Trump's UN Speech for Friends and Foes Alike "The United States will not participate in the new global compact on migration. Migration should not be governed by an international body unaccountable to our own citizens," says President Trump. More Commentary Losing the Presumption of Innocence Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, is questioning the "unquestioned" presumption of innocence itself, at least in Kavanaugh's case. But why single him out? Hirono is not clear on that, but referred to "how he approaches cases" ... and is "against women's reproductive choice." More Analysis The Daily Signal Podcast: In UN Speech, Trump Makes Powerful Case for American Sovereignty Brett Schaefer of The Heritage Foundation discusses President Trump's U.N. speech. Plus: Protesters harass Ted Cruz and his wife during their private night out. More Commentary The Only Thing That Matters to Liberals Is Preventing Trump's Nominee From Joining Supreme Court When The New Yorker traffics in what it admits is an unsubstantiated rumor, the hit piece's author says the accuser came forward because "Democrats came looking" for someone to say such things. More Commentary Right Side of History: How Reagan and Now Trump Turned the Tables on the Media We speak to John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, about how Reagan got around a biased media and how it applies to Donald Trump today. More Commentary Segregation Is Back With a Vengeance on Campus. Academic Liberals Made It Happen. There are 2.5 males in the U.S. in the top 0.01 percent of math ability for every female, according to the journal Intelligence. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames@comcast.net. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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