One leg of the Democrat lawfare against former President Donald Trump suffered a blow this week when the federal judge overseeing the classified records case in Florida declined to set a trial date and called for hearings on a series of motions made by Trump and his co-defendants.
Judge Aileen Cannon, sitting in the Southern District, is requiring Jack Smith, the special prosecutor hired by the Biden administration to investigate Trump, to explain why documents seized in a raid on the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence are missing. Trump contends that as president, he has the right to possess the material which he says contains proof of Biden corruption.
Trump’s motions also seek documents from the White House that purportedly show the Smith prosecution is part of a criminal conspiracy by Biden to interfere with the November election. The special counsel has pushed to try the Florida case, as well as his case against Trump in Washington over allegations that he tried to reverse the results of the 2020 election, prior to the 2024 contest.
Democrat prosecutions in New York and Georgia have also devolved into political spectacles, with the judge in Manhattan, whose daughter is a major Democrat operative, issuing gag orders to prevent Trump from talking about the conflict, and the Atlanta prosecutor hiring her boyfriend to try the case. Trump motions to have the state attorney removed from the case are being heard by an appeals court. In all four legal attacks on the 45th President, his team has shown direct coordination between the prosecutors and the White House.
A vetting of Trump’s eight motions in the Florida case likely will take at least until late July, according to Judge Cannon, who noted that the national security mishandling allegations in the case “present novel and difficult questions.” Also in July, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether Trump has immunity from prosecution for his official acts. He sees his questioning of Biden’s election as part of his role as president in a case that has vast ramifications for the future of the executive office.