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During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," a former senior adviser to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland wasn't shy about accusing U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon of running interference for Donald Trump who is facing felony obstruction of justice charges related to stolen documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago.

Former prosecutor Anthony Coley agreed with MSNBC co-host Michael Steele that Cannon has no intention of letting the Trump charges see the light of day in her courtroom, adding that she is acting like a "fixer."

"I have some real issues with this judge in this case," host Steele began. "I want to call your attention to Politico reporting that at the end of Thursday's session Cannon promised to 'rule promptly but made no mention of the schedule for a trial and how close she is to resolving a wide array of other legal issues raised by the case or even when other defense motions may be argued.'"

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"My truth is this: she don't want to move this thing along because this pace helps Trump," he accused. "I know that is a terrible thing to say but I am looking objectively at the process here and particularly how I feel in so many ways that she has found a way to put her finger on the scale, as opposed to sitting back as an arbiter of facts and the process and saying, 'Let's keep this going people.''

"I agree with you 1000 percent," Coley quickly replied. "I think the motion was necessary and the hearing was necessary."

"One of the things I know from my time at the DOJ and [MSNBC host] Katie Phang knows this as well, is that the government wins upwards of 95 percent of these types of cases. Cases that deal with retention, unauthorized retention, of classified documents and the judge knows this."

"So she is trying, to your point, to prevent the trial from even starting," he added, "I think she is trying to fix the fight before the fight gets started."

"The thing about the case is that the evidence is overwhelming and it includes videotape from Mar-a-Lago and it includes photographic evidence and importantly, it includes a first-hand witness account," he pointed out.

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