Former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner alleged on Friday that Judge Aileen Cannon is “orchestrating something even more beneficial” for Donald Trump in his criminal classified documents trial.
Among the four criminal cases that Trump, the presumed 2024 GOP presidential nominee, is charged in, one of the most damning, according to legal experts, has been the classified documents case, which charges Trump with unlawfully retaining such documents after leaving the White House in 2021, some containing sensitive national defense information, in violation of the Espionage Act. Trump himself has pleaded not guilty to the charges and accused the investigation of being politically motivated.
Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump in the final months of his presidency, was selected to oversee the case and has been criticized in many corners for decisions that have been deemed overtly beneficial to the former president. She has also specifically been accused of helping Trump by delaying the case’s proceedings by holding off on announcing an official trial date as matters are worked through.
On Thursday, however, Cannon ruled against a motion from Trump’s legal team requesting that his Espionage Act charges be dismissed, arguing that he was allowed to retain the documents under the Presidential Records Act (PRA), a notion the Department of Justice‘s (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith‘s team dismissed as “pure fiction.” In denying the motion, Cannon did leave open the possibility that the argument could be raised at a later date in the case.
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In a Friday post to his official YouTube channel, Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. attorney and frequent critic of the former president, argued that this decision from Cannon is laying the groundwork for something that will be “even better” for Trump.
“She’s orchestrating something even better for Donald Trump,” he said. “If she had granted this motion and dismissed those charges, guess what?…
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