Julie Kelly- U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon may have just indefinitely postponed Donald Trump’s espionage and obstruction trial but that doesn’t mean her federal courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida will lie dormant over the next few months.
In officially vacating the existing May 20 trial date—an impossibility considering the defendant will be in a Manhattan courtroom for the foreseeable future—Cannon declined to set another date, calling it “imprudent” at this stage of the process. She noted a “myriad” of unresolved matters in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 42-count indictment against the former president and his two co-defendants, Mar-a-Lago employees Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Olivera, for willfully retaining national defense information and attempting to impede the government’s investigation.
Cannon, however, did schedule a number of proceedings that could be considered a way to put the Department of Justice on trial. In a stunning turn of events, Cannon, appointed by Donald Trump in 2020, is poised to make Smith a defendant of sorts. more here
“Jack Smith” my ass. This is Biden and Obama.
Throw him in GITMO until the hearing. It’s the LEAST Jack Smith deserves.
Too bad she doesn’t have the authority to sanction Jack-o by having every hair in his beard slooooooowly plucked out, one at a time.
“Your choice, Mr. Smith. Either the beard plucking or six months in a Turkish prison. A Turkish women’s prison.”