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According to former high-ranking DOJ official Mary McCord, there is definite evidence of bias in Judge Aileen Cannon's handling of the Donald Trump obstruction of justice proceedings as well as general incompetence that is also slowing down the trial.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," McCord discussed the back and forth between the Trump-appointed Cannon and special counsel Jack Smith over sealed evidence on Friday and was asked by the hosts if she is over her head.

"Do you think it is bias or do you think it is incompetence?" she was asked by co-host Alicia Menendez.

"I think there's a little bit of both," McCord quickly replied. "I think there is some incompetence here. She applied the wrong legal standard and it's not difficult to discern what the right legal standard is."

"But clearly she has revealed since the very beginning of this case a bias," she continued. "And I don't know whether she thinks she wants to make sure she is putting the government to its burden and not showing any favoritism for the government —."

"Feels like she's showing a lot of favoritism towards Donald Trump," co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend interrupted.

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"That's right, that's right," McCord agreed.

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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon appears poised to ignore urgent pleadings from Special Counsel Jack Smith, and possibly, experts warn, put confidential witnesses at risk.

Judge Cannon, overseeing the trial of Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents and Espionage Act case, this week ordered the Special Counsel to hand over to Trump's lawyers the names of witnesses in a previously unknown DOJ investigation into death threats those witnesses allegedly received. She also ordered Smith to hand over to Trump lawyers the contents of those death threats.

Just nine months away from the U.S. general election, reporting published Friday by CNN suggests the federal government is poorly prepared to respond to "nightmare scenarios," from violence at the polls to disinformation created with artificial intelligence.

One U.S. official familiar with a previously unreported meeting at the White House Situation Room in December told CNN's Sean Lyngaas that in terms of a coordinated federal response to an election-related threat, "we're all f—king tied up in knots."

Trump's cozying up to the NRA had the Biden campaign gunning for fair treatment.

"Every single time Donald Trump opens his mouth, he's confused, deranged, lying or worse," TJ Ducklo, a spokesman for Biden’s 2024 presidential reelection campaign said in a statement following the 45th president's speech at the National Rifle Association (NRA) Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Friday night.

Former Trump administration economic adviser Peter Navarro is going to prison after a judge rejected his bid to delay his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress while he appeals. And yet, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner noted on his "Justice Matters" show Friday, Trump ally Steve Bannon, convicted of the same crime and handed the same sentence far earlier, has no apparent timeline for when he is supposed to report to prison.

And Kirschner has a disturbing theory why that might be.