President Trump accidentally exposes Eileen Cannon’s shady professional MAGA game

When Judge Eileen Cannon inherited Many court officials announce her latest ruling in her case against Donald Trump for stealing classified documents I understood it right away Suspicious gamesmanship lurks behind it. Although she technically ruled against Trump by refusing to dismiss her case, in reality she later herself invalidated the case or acquitted her jury. It made it easy to lead to.

Trump’s lawyers had argued that the Presidential Records Act, passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal, allowed him to reclassify national security documents as personal property.it is grotesque misreading Having discussed the law’s history and intent, Cannon seemed to agree, clarifying that the PRA “does not provide a pre-trial basis for dismissal” of cases. The media reported this as a partial “victory” for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution team.

However, as constitutional law scholar Lawrence Tribe, put it, which was a “sham” ruling against Trump that ultimately “reserved” Cannon’s ability to rule in Trump’s favor in a manner that cannot be appealed. In other words, Cannon seems to recognize the importance of maintaining plausible deniability from beginning to end as it moves towards the endgame.

“Judge Cannon is clever in his pro-Trump approach,” said Lee Koversky, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Trump doesn’t seem to notice the “smart” part of it. He makes no secret of his hopes that Cannon, who was appointed to Congress by President Trump in 2020, will work in his favor. That complicates Cannon’s efforts to maintain the objective legal atmosphere she strives for.

This points to a larger pattern. In many ways, President Trump’s allies, overtly and implicitly alike, have responded to his possible corruption and criminal behavior in ways that maintain a semblance of respect for the rule of law. trying to interfere. But Trump continues to call for the rule of law to be openly perverted on his behalf. That’s especially because a central feature of the MAGA movement is its blatant contempt for the very idea that the law should apply to him and his supporters.

after smith I was demanded to On Thursday, President Trump posted that Cannon quickly issued a ruling on the Trump campaign’s claim that the PRA absolved him of wrongdoing. this About True Social:

Deranged “special” prosecutor Jack Smith…should be sanctioned or condemned for the way he is attacking Eileen Cannon, a highly respected judge presiding over a forgery case in Florida. He shouldn’t even be allowed to participate in the incident. In this sham lawsuit, I am subject to the Presidential Records Act, unlike crooked Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and others. I didn’t do anything wrong, but Biden did something bad, so they acquitted him. What’s up, Jack? Two-tiered justice system. Election interference!

Everything is exactly the opposite here. Biden was cleared of wrongdoing by a special counsel appointed under the Biden administration, but was originally appointed U.S. attorney by President Trump in 2017. On the other hand, Mr. Robert Herr was unable to find any evidence that: will convince the jury Mr. Smith secured an indictment against Mr. Trump by a grand jury of the former president’s associates on charges of criminal misconduct. Additionally, the judge considered a body of evidence showing that President Trump had improperly hidden classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort and concluded that probable cause existed to authorize the search.

But in President Trump’s hands, none of these details matter, and he will consider them thoroughly. Because the summary of his message is that, by definition, Biden is guilty and Trump is innocent. As in his case, Continuous attacks on Smith Others who seek to hold him legally accountable are also presumed to be illegal in such efforts due to the fact that he is their target.That’s also President Trump’s message. attack To the families of the officials involved in the case against him, he pointed out that he not only tries to prevent the application of the law to himself by any means necessary, but also flaunts it.

Similarly, Trump has no basis for declaring Cannon “highly respected” other than the correct knowledge that Cannon is on his side.

The last thing Cannon wants is for all of this to become public. Because by all appearances, she is trying to appear neutral in this case. On the one hand, because she secretly wants to leave the door open to help Trump later. That is, Mr. Cannon did not rule on Mr. Trump’s claim that he was authorized to remove documents under the PRA.If she had done so in his favor, as many legal professionals do. I got it., would have been the subject of an appeal. But by deferring that question, Cannon later gave himself two options. He can either instruct the jury at trial to seriously consider the allegations, increasing the chances of acquittal, or he can dismiss the case himself on that basis.

Such measures would be known after the jury is seated, making Trump’s acquittal non-appealable. Given that this comes after: A series of incomprehensible sentences that amount to torture The case favors Mr. Trump—Jonathan V. Rust Let’s talk about Canon It can no longer be denied that he is, in effect, “a tank MAGA judge for Mr. Trump.” She may indeed be preparing to take such action, which would kill Mr. Smith’s case forever.

“She is avoiding an almost certain reversal by refusing to decide the PRA issue now,” said Kowalski of the University of Texas. She wrote that “delaying until after the jury is sworn in can make corrections impossible on appeal.”

As long as President Trump has made it clear that he fully expects Cannon to solve the case, it becomes difficult to play this game with any credibility.

We see this pattern regularly. Many Republicans have resisted holding President Trump accountable for the January 6 riot, but for them, the rioters who were actually convicted of breaking the law must pay a price. , that’s the good thing about it. It’s just that January 6th was mostly a peaceful protest, and Trump himself is the victim of a witch hunt!

Mr. Trump is advocating a very different thesis: Even those convicted in court on January 6 are victims and martyrs.hostage” When President Trump suggests he will pardon them, it is as if he is observing something as obvious as the weather. Needless to say, the law does not apply to his supporters. For this reason, there is no room for Republicans to accept that our legal system regarding January 6th is in any way legal.

Meanwhile, this week in Michigan, President Trump posed Law enforcement officials criticized Biden’s border policies. Many pointed out the absurdity of this, given that President Trump vowed to pardon those who attacked police officers on January 6th. Some people were directly involved with some of the most vicious violence against them that day.

But President Trump sees no need to explain this absurdity. He praises the heroism and courage of police officers, as long as they support him. He praises the heroism and courage of those who violently attack police, so long as they also support him.

All these are the hallmarks of a dictatorship, a system hopelessly corrupt, perpetually running wild to bring down the man in power, and the only political arrangement that is untainted and virtuous is his and his supporters. This supports the idea that there is a bond between

just like trump openly characterized the attorney general he appointed his As a private attorney, he thinks of Cannon as follows: his judge, and police officer supporting him as his Policeman. “The reason why he says this so clearly to his supporters is because he is conditioning his supporters to turn their backs on democracy,” Ruth Benguiat said. Strongman Rules Expert. “He is conditioning them to accept an authoritarian form of governance and the idea that leaders are unrestrained and unaccountable.”

Cannon does not seem to like being perceived as a servant of this twisted mind. Trump doesn’t seem to care. He openly tells the world what he expects from her. I hope President Trump leaves her no choice but to prove her wrong.