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Having digested Judge Aileen Cannon's bombshell ruling that dismissed charges against Donald Trump for stealing and hoarding sensitive government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman was not impressed.

Cannon's ruling stated that special counsel Jack Smith was an unconstitutional appointment, which has legal scholars bluntly stating it contravenes long-established case law.

After her husband was nearly shot at a Saturday rally, Melania Trump released an extensive statement that is leading some to question whether it is genuine.

The Daily Beast reported that the word "human" was used several times in the 12-paragraph release, which is curious because it is a word that actual humans don't generally use that much when talking about themselves.

Real America's Voice host Brian Glenn, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) boyfriend, said he was refusing the call for unity and pushed the Second Amendment following the shooting of former President Donald Trump.

During a Monday discussion on imprisoned Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, Glenn spoke to guest host Natalie Winters about the assassination attempt.

According to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, the sheer length and breadth of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling on the Donald Trump stolen documents case makes it seem that it has been in the works for a suspicious amount of time.

Reacting to the bombshell ruling where Cannon asserted special counsel Jack Smith's appointment was not allowed under the Constitution, and using that as her reason for the dismissal, Rubin noted the amount of research and cites that made up the 93-page document showed it was not a rush job -- and that raised questions about when it was begun.

With the former president's lawyers questioning the legality of Smith prosecuting the case at a hearing just three weeks ago, Rubin raised her eyebrows at the timing.

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"After hearing oral arguments on this motion based on Jack Smith's allegedly unlawful appointment and appropriations of money to fund his office, she ordered an evidentiary hearing on another issue," she told MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart. "That led people to believe that, if she was going to have a days-long hearing seeking evidence on some other issue relevant to the case, that she was not going to dismiss the case outright based on the appointments clause and appropriations clause arguments."

"And yet the length of this opinion suggests that this has been in the works for some time," she pointed out. "Whatever one thinks about Judge Cannon, a 93-page opinion citing case law and briefs and constitutional texts does not emerge overnight."

"This is a serious piece of work involving the judge and likely her law clerk's assistance, but it's not something that one spends two weeks writing. It's something that someone spends usually several weeks writing," she claimed.

Donald Trump's campaign has pressed the message that he is a "changed man" after the failed assassination attempt on Saturday. But after his Monday update on Truth Social, things seemed like they were back to the same again.

In particular, Trump went on an angry rant claiming that his espionage case in Florida a "witch hunt," alleging the Jan. 6 attack on Congress was a "hoax" and the New York fraud case is a "scam."

Several prominent billionaires—including the richest man on Earth—took to social media over the weekend to endorse presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump shortly after a 20-year-old gunman attempted to assassinate the former president at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

One of the billionaires was Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who took to the social media platform that he owns to declare, "I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery." The endorsement came days after reports that Musk donated to a pro-Trump super PAC and just ahead of the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller's team, tore apart Judge Aileen Cannon's recent ruling to dismiss Donald Trump's documents case on Monday.

Speaking about the matter on MSNBC, Weissmann explained that Cannon is restricting the executive branch's power, and it isn't within her scope as a Florida district judge to do something like that.

Former President Donald Trump connected a recent attempt on his life to the criminal and civil court cases filed against him Monday in a new Truth Social post responding to the dismissal of his classified documents case.

Trump claimed he wanted to move forward with "Uniting our Nation" before accusing prosecutors of an elaborate political witch hunt against him and E. Jean Carroll, the writer he has been found liable of sexually abusing and repeatedly defaming, of lying.

Reacting to a stunning decision on Monday by Judge Aileen Cannon to summarily dismiss charges against Donald Trump for the theft of government documents after he was busted for hoarding them at his Mar-a-Lago resort, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin focused on the last page of her ruling that should raise alarms.

During her appearance with host José Díaz-Balart, he read the controversial Cannon's concluding remarks at the end of the 93-page ruling where she wrote:

Donald Trump Jr., son of the former president and convicted felon, celebrated the future of American Democracy Monday when a judge his father appointed tossed a case involving classified documents stored in a Florida social club bathroom.

His MAGA followers responded with calls for retribution.

Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Donald Trump's documents case on Monday morning ahead of the Republican convention, declaring that special counsel Jack Smith was not constitutionally appointed.

Legal analysts were quick to explain that no judge had ever done what Cannon had done and that the case had been litigated extensively, with considerable case law from Richard Nixon to, most recently, Hunter Biden's special counsel.

An explosive ruling early Monday morning by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon to toss the stolen government documents case against Donald Trump just hours before the Republican National Convention convened was greeted with outrage and disgust on social media.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, "Judge Cannon has dismissed the Trump documents case, citing violation of appointments clause," later adding, "Cannon says Jack Smith's appointment usurps legislative power.."