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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExclusive: Team Trump Says Classified Docs Judge Aileen Cannon Is a 'Godsend' (Rolling Stone)
Article says what we've all been thinking.
BY ASAWIN SUEBSAENG, ADAM RAWNSLEY
According to some in his inner circle, Donald Trump's most effective and not-so-secret weapon in his 2024 effort to reclaim the White House is a federal judge he appointed in Florida.
Judge Aileen Cannon is presiding over one of Trump's two federal criminal cases - the classified documents case in the Southern District of Florida. In August 2022, the FBI raided Trump's Florida club and estate, Mar-a-Lago, following his sustained refusal to return to the government a trove of classified documents he was hoarding at the club. This bizarre scandal led to a criminal case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Since last year, Trump's attorneys have inundated the court with a range of motions and efforts to delay the trial. Instead of handling those matters quickly, Cannon has let motions languish for weeks without decision while holding what some experts see as unnecessary hearings to debate other issues, pushing a trial date further.
Cannon went even further last week with a ruling that tossed the May 20 trial date, postponing it indefinitely in order to first deal with what she said were "myriad and interconnected pre-trial and [classified information evidentiary] issues remaining and forthcoming."
According to some in his inner circle, Donald Trump's most effective and not-so-secret weapon in his 2024 effort to reclaim the White House is a federal judge he appointed in Florida.
Judge Aileen Cannon is presiding over one of Trump's two federal criminal cases - the classified documents case in the Southern District of Florida. In August 2022, the FBI raided Trump's Florida club and estate, Mar-a-Lago, following his sustained refusal to return to the government a trove of classified documents he was hoarding at the club. This bizarre scandal led to a criminal case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Since last year, Trump's attorneys have inundated the court with a range of motions and efforts to delay the trial. Instead of handling those matters quickly, Cannon has let motions languish for weeks without decision while holding what some experts see as unnecessary hearings to debate other issues, pushing a trial date further.
Cannon went even further last week with a ruling that tossed the May 20 trial date, postponing it indefinitely in order to first deal with what she said were "myriad and interconnected pre-trial and [classified information evidentiary] issues remaining and forthcoming."
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/team-trump-says-classified-docs-judge-aileen-cannon-is-a-godsend/ar-BB1mfIMN?ocid=BingNewsSerp
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Exclusive: Team Trump Says Classified Docs Judge Aileen Cannon Is a 'Godsend' (Rolling Stone) (Original Post)
ificandream
May 12
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BoRaGard
(356 posts)1. Mammon loves to help out his worshipful republican homies
Ping Tung
(865 posts)2. A "Godsend"? I thought God was supposed to be benevolent and a Good Guy.
piddyprints
(14,653 posts)3. Well, I mean...
when he's not damning people to hell or releasing plagues of locusts or flooding the earth or allowing people like tsf to keep terrorizing the world...
dalton99a
(81,878 posts)4. "Aileen works for Donald Trump"
Beausoleil
(2,884 posts)5. An innocent person would not be so dependant
on a likely corrupt federal judge whom he appointed to delay the trail as much as this judge has. An innocent person would want to clear their name before the election.
duckworth969
(727 posts)6. Clarence Thomas is assigned to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
Unhelpful to say the least
Takket
(21,794 posts)7. this is what actual "election interference" looks like
denying the people the right to know if the GOP candidate is a criminal or not. She should be removed by the 11th circuit.
republianmushroom
(14,167 posts)8. That puppet judge Cannon is a godsend for trump.
Right out of the play book delay, delay and then delay some more.
39 months and counting (includes a lot of foot dragging)