Judge Aileen Cannon’s removal of an indictment accusing Donald Trump of hoarding classified documents is a “sweetener” for the former president, a legal commentator said.
Trump-appointed U. S. District Judge Cannon dropped the charge that Trump displayed a highly sensitive military map at his New Jersey home because it is not qualified with the document’s alleged exposure. He deleted the paragraph on Monday and rejected Trump’s request to remove the entire indictment opposed it.
MSNBC correspondent Lisa Rubin wrote Monday on X, formerly Twitter: “There’s a sweetener for Trump and his crusader leader Susie Wiles.
“And that trump card is his resolve to remove paragraph 36 of the indictment, which relates to Trump’s alleged exposure, while in Bedminster, of a classified map of a country where ‘an ongoing military operation’ ‘is not going well’ to a ‘representative PAC,'” Wiles would be saying.
Newsweek emailed comments to Trump’s lawyer and Susie Wiles on Tuesday.
Cannon is presiding over the case in which special counsel Jack Smith accuses the former president of illegally preserving classified documents, keeping them at his Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Smith also accused Trump of obstructing attempts through federal officials to retrieve the highly sensitive documents.
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for November’s presidential election, pleaded guilty to all charges and denied any wrongdoing in the case.
In April 2024, the online newspaper Politico wrote a detailed article about her describing her as “America’s most feared and least-known political operative” and that she is Trump’s “de facto crusade director. “
She has been accused by legal analysts of being too supportive of the former president and has had regular clashes with Attorney General Jack Smith.
Rubin added, “Cannon says that when prosecutors need to provide evidence of prior crimes or torts, they will have to provide ‘pretrial notice’ of the motives for that evidence for purposes other than showing the defendant’s propensity to act in a certain way, and follows the practice of movement.
Sean O’Driscoll is a senior crime and court reporter for Ireland-based Newsweek. Its objective is to inform about U. S. legislation. He has covered human rights and extremism extensively. Sean joined Newsweek in 2023 and has worked for The Guardian in the past. The New York Times, BBC, Vice and others from the Middle East. He specialized in human rights issues in the Persian Gulf and conducted a three-month investigation into labor rights violations for the New York Times. In the past it was founded in New York City for 10 years. He is a graduate of Dublin City University and is a qualified lawyer in New York and an Irish notary.
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