Press Members Cry a River Over the Judge in the Trump Case
By Bonchie | 7:13 AM on June 12, 2023
It hasn’t even been a week since the DOJ announced a new indictment of Donald Trump, this time related to a supposed “conspiracy” to obstruct justice in his handling of government documents under the Espionage Act. In that short amount of time, the press has begun to shift from sheer jubilation to worry.
That change is being driven by who the judge in the case is. As RedState reported, instead of getting a Democrat-appointed judge in a heavily leftwing DC-area jurisdiction, the DOJ is being forced to prosecute Trump in Florida, and the judge just so happens to be Aileen Cannon. Who is Cannon? She’s the same judge who had the press crying a river during the litigation that followed the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
NBC News printed an angst-filled piece supposing how she “could hobble” the DOJ’s case.
That changed after FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 for classified documents. Cannon was randomly assigned to oversee the subsequent legal battle that unfolded between Trump’s legal team and the Justice Department.
In the first case, Cannon ruled in favor of Trump’s request to appoint a “special master” — a third-party attorney — to review whether the documents that the Justice Department and FBI had found in Trump’s home were protected by executive privilege, a contention that many legal experts dismissed.
Well, if “legal experts” dismissed a ruling by a judge that executive privilege doesn’t just disappear because the DOJ says so, then what else is there to discuss? It’s just astonishing to me that these press outlets are able to write stuff like that with a straight face.
But while NBC News tried to couch their consternation in passive-aggressive concern trolling, others were more direct. On MSNBC, two “legal analysts” suggested Cannon should voluntarily pass the case to someone else (Fox News).
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