'Wait a minute!' Ex-prosecutor shows how Judge Cannon contradicted herself in Trump case
Trump's many trials are causing calendar conflicts with his attorneys and this in turn is clogging up the lead-up to Nov. 5 when the country will choose the next president.
And former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner is head scratching because he can't believe the excuses being thrown around to buy more time and possibly prevent the trial where Trump is accused of stashing federal classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and obstructing justice when the feds asked for them.
In a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the case, listened to attorneys for former President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith attempts to ink a date on the busy calendar, because Trump is facing 91 charges in four criminal cases.
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Trump attorney Todd Blanche even griped about Trump's hush-money case kicking off in New York City, for which he is also defense counsel, involving paying off porn star Stormy Daniels to silence bad press in the leadup to the 2016 run for the White House.
It was inconceivable to him to start anywhere until mid-May because they "cannot effectively prepare for this trial by July" and that ideally the "easy solution" would be to have the trial get going in late November, after the 2024 election to spare "working ourselves into a frenzy."
When he summarized today's goings-on inside the courtroom with Judge Cannon remaining unwilling to pick a date and Blanche making the case that there is going to be a legal interference with all the forthcoming cases — Kirschner, on his series "Justice Matters," sarcastically gasped, "perish the thought."
He also was just as appalled when Cannon, being offered a July 8 date by Special Counsel Jack Smith and an August date by Trump's camp, could only end the proceeding saying “a lot of work remains to be done.”
"Wait a minute, Judge Cannon expressed skepticism at a July trial date friends, Kirschner said to the camera. "You may remember that Judge Cannon already set a trial date in this very case for May 20th."
"That trial date had not been cancelled, had not been vacated, had not been revisited since the time she set it several months ago — and yet when Jack Smith proposed an even later trial date; a July trial date which would have given Donald Trump and his lawyers more time to prepare yet she seems skeptical of it."
He criticized Trump's attorneys for seeking an "easy solution" for their client and themselves but said "it's not an easy solution for the health indeed the viability of our democracy."