Judge Aileen Cannon Dresses Down Trump Prosecutor: ‘I Don’t Appreciate Your Tone’
Pool/ReutersThere was tension in U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s courtroom on Monday afternoon as the controversial jurist—already facing criticism that she is in the tank for Donald Trump, who appointed her to the bench during his single term in the White House—snapped at one of the government attorneys prosecuting Trump for unlawfully hoarding classified documents after leaving office.The exchange occurred during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, with prosecutors arguing for Trump to be barred from launching inflammatory public attacks on the FBI and its agents involved in the case. Trump has gone off on unhinged rants against the FBI, which seized hundreds of highly sensitive documents taken by Trump at the end of his term, and stored haphazardly throughout Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club in Palm Beach that now also serves as his residence.Trump’s attorneys have argued that any limit on what he may or may not say about the case would be an unacceptable violation of his First Amendment rights.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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