A US federal judge on Monday, July 15 dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, clearing one of the major legal challenges facing the former US president. In a 93-page ruling, District Judge Aileen Cannon said the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution. “In the end, …
Read More »Trump Classified Docs Case Dropped, Jack Smith Appointment Ruled Unconstitutional
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Fresh off the most epic moment in American history since Washington crossing the Delaware, Donald Trump has racked up another win. The classified documents case against Trump has been dropped by Judge Cannon, who …
Read More »Aileen Cannon’s Colleagues Tried To Get Her To Step Aside From Trump Classified Docs Case
Two of Judge Aileen Cannon’s colleagues urged her to step aside and not take the Trump classified documents case, but she refused. The New York Times reported: The judges who approached Judge Cannon — including the chief judge in the Southern District of Florida, …
Read More »Trump Just Handed Jack Smith A Confession That He Stole Classified Documents
In an interview with Megyn Kelly, Trump said that he had a right to both have and take classified and unclassified documents. Trump said, “We have a deranged guy named Jack Smith who has been overturned at the Supreme Court a number of times, and he gets overturned. Do you …
Read More »Judge sets May 2024, few months before US presidential election as the start of Trump classified documents trial
The federal judge overseeing the classified documents case by the US Federal government against former US President Donald Trump has decided the criminal trial will begin May 20, 2024, in Fort Pierce, Florida. Judge Aileen Cannon announced the timing of the trial in a document filed in federal court …
Read More »Prosecutors and Trump Lawyers Clash Over Timing in Classified Documents Case
The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case expressed skepticism on Tuesday about the government’s request to go to trial as early as December, but she also seemed disinclined to accede immediately to Mr. Trump’s desire to have the trial put off until after the 2024 …
Read More »Trump aide Walt Nauta indicted in classified documents case, pleads not guilty
Waltine “Walt” Nauta, former President Donald Trump’s employee and an ex-White House aide, pleaded not guilty on Thursday, July 6, to federal charges alleging he helped Trump obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents. Nauta appeared for a brief arraignment hearing in federal court …
Read More »Trump Demands Jack Smith Be Prosecuted For Classified Docs Tape Leak
Donald Trump blew up and demanded that special counsel Jack Smith face prosecution for the leak of the classified docs audio that could have come from Trump. Trump posted on Truth Social: Why did Deranged Jack Smith and the DOJ/FBI leak a tape to …
Read More »On The Same Night That Classified Docs Tape Drops, Trump Says He Won’t Do GOP Debates
On the same night that a tape was published revealing his discussion of classified documents, Trump announced that he won’t be participating in Republican presidential primary debates. Video: When asked on Newsmax if he will be participating in the August Republican presidential primary debate, Trump answered: I’m leading by a …
Read More »Audio Undercuts Trump’s Assertion He Did Not Have Classified Document
An audio recording of former President Donald J. Trump in 2021 discussing what he called a “highly confidential” document about Iran that he acknowledged he could not declassify because he was out of office appears to contradict his recent assertion that the material he was referring to was simply news …
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