Jack Smith Tracks Unhinged Origin of Judge Cannon’s Latest Trump Defense
In his latest counterattack, Special Counsel Jack Smith has revealed how deeply sourced his Donald Trump investigation has become, meticulously detailing for the first time how a farfetched legal theory traveled from a conservative activist to the MAGA-friendly federal judge who is employing it in a manner that could save the former president who appointed her.
In his late night Tuesday court filing, federal prosecutors did more than slam U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s flawed reasoning that would essentially hand Trump a total victory in the case against him for hoarding national secrets at his South Florida oceanside estate of Mar-a-Lago.
The specially assigned Department of Justice team also mapped out the origin of Trump’s latest defense, the idea that he was justified in keeping hundreds of classified documents after leaving the White House because he considered these government records “personal.”