LOS ANGELES.–U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon tossed out Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified docs case against 78-year-old former President Donald Trump, agreeing with defense counsel that Smith was improperly appointed by Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland. From the get-go, the case filed by 72-year-old Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland was always dubious because it was an egregious attempt to interfere with the 2024 presidential election. Democrat strategy was to throw legal cases against Trump to stop him from his presidential run, burying him in fake prosecutions, the same way they investigated him for his alleged ties to the Russian Federation. Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and National Security Agency [NSA] were all used maliciously to investigate Trump for years before and during his presidency. Government prosecutors were never rebuked until now.
When the Supreme Court ruled July 1 to extend Trump limited presidential immunity, it was the High Court’s attempt to put guardrails on a rogue DOJ that went after Trump with a vengeance, all to stop his 2024 presidential campaign. Cannon has been the subject of relentless left-wing attacks for her skepticism over Smith’s case. Smith said filing the case against Trump June 8, 2023 that Trump violated the 1917 Espionage Act retaining old, worthless classified docs in sealed moving boxes in the basement of the Mar-a-Lago estate. How much more malicious prosecution does anyone need to know about the FBI’s treatment of Trump? Cannon didn’t need to accept the defense argument about the legitimacy of Smith’s appointment by Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland. Cannon should have told Smith from Day One the Espionage Act was inappropriate to charge Trump.
White House, Democrats and the press thought they had their slam dunk case against Trump, finding old, worthless classified docs, the same kind they found with 81-year-old President Joe Biden from his days as U.S. Senator and Vice President. Cannon has known that Smith’s Espionage Act case against Trump was a bogus, yet it was totally backed by the White House, Democrats and the press for the purpose of stopping Trump’s campaign. Now the White House, Democrats and the press complain about Cannon tossing out Trump’s case today. What more does the public need to see about government weaponization or malicious political prosecution against Trump? Cannon was skeptical of the government’s case from the beginning, knowing there was no Espionage Act case against Trump for retaining old, worthless classified docs in White House moving boxes.
When you look at all the cases against Trump, including his May 30 Manhattan conviction on 34 felonies, the cases are all malicious prosecutions. No legal experts can explain what Trump was convicted of by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Trump paid extortionist Stormy Daniels in 2016 $130,000 as a nuisance settlement. What’s the crime letting his former Atty. Michael Cohen handle the matter? Yet Bragg convinced a partisan jury to convict Trump based on smoke-and-mirrors, saying he cooked his books to record the payment to Stormy as legal fees. Well, if he paid his attorney to handle the matter, what else could it be? Yet Bragg’s case against Trump was the same malicious prosecution seen in all the cases pending against Trump. White House, Democrats and the press railed against the July 1 Supreme Court ruling giving Trump limited immunity for official acts, that included the Democrats’ favorite case against Trump that he tried to obstruct certification of the Jan. 6, 2021 Electoral College vote.
Whether Smith decides to appeal Cannon’s dismissal of the classified docs case is anyone’s guess. With yesterday’s assassination attempt against Trump, Democrats have a real problem with their overall strategy. Elections are supposed to be about examining the incumbent’s record over the last four years, not fabricating his opponent’s motives like trying to destroy American democracy. Biden, White House, Democrats and the press have been smearing Trump with false allegations, just like they did for years falsely tying him to the Kremlin. Cannon did the right thing tossing Smith’s classified docs case, now let’s see what U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan does in Smith’s obstruction case. Clearly the Supreme Court’s July 1 limited immunity decision covers Trump from Smith’s fake charges against Trump for obstruction.
Biden, White House, Democrats and the press have been railing against U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon because she was skeptical of the government’s case against Trump from the outset. Now that she’s tossed out Smith’s case altogether, Democrats’ strategy for beating Trump in the courts has fallen apart. Cannon had every legal basis for tossing out the case on the basis of Smith’s illegal appointment to go after Trump. Cannon could have tossed out the case telling Smith that the 1917 Espionage Act was inappropriate for charging Trump for finding worthless old classified docs in White House moving boxes in Trump’s locked basement at Mar-a-Lago. White House, Democrats and the press don’t care about the DOJ’s malicious prosecution, only stopping Trump from running for president. Cannon finally ended the government’s charade against Trump.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
