Trump demands 'lowlife' Jack Smith be 'censured' for putting Judge Cannon on the spot
A federal filing by special counsel Jack Smith that put Judge Aileen Cannon on the spot over her widely criticized proposed jury instructions has infuriated Donald Trump, who subsequently lashed out on Thursday morning.
The Trump-appointed judge had asked both parties in the Mar-a-Lago documents case for proposed jury instructions which led to Smith delivering what observers have called a "withering response" with the implicit threat that he may seek relief from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
In the filing, Smith's office maintained Cannon would be “asking the jury to make a factual finding with no proper legal connection” to the case, adding that an alternative, “would amount to nothing more than a recitation of Trump’s PRA defense” which “would result in directing a verdict against the Government.”
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The former president came to Cannon's defense, and labeled Smith a "lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to 'play the ref.'"
According to the former president, "Deranged 'Special' Counsel Jack Smith, who has a long record of failure as a prosecutor, including a unanimous decision against him in the U.S. Supreme Court, should be sanctioned or censured for the way he is attacking a highly respected Judge, Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over his FAKE Documents Hoax case in Florida."
"He is a lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to 'play the ref,'" he accused before adding, "He shouldn’t even be allowed to participate in this sham case, where I, unlike Crooked Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and all the rest, come under the Presidential Records Act."
Switching to all-caps, he revisited his usual grievances, writing, "I DID NOTHING WRONG, BUT BIDEN DID, AND THEY LET HIM OFF SCOT-FREE. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN, JACK? A TWO TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!"
