News about Donald Trump

Jack Smith is asking Judge Cannon to urgently grant his gag order request in the classified documents case due to the "foreseeable danger to law enforcement" posed by Donald Trump. "Statements that present a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to the law enforcement…

BREAKING NYT: Shortly after Judge Aileen Cannon drew the assignment to oversee Trump's classified documents case, two more experienced colleagues on the federal bench in Florida urged her to pass it up and hand it off to another jurist. Cannon refused the judges' entreaties.…

NYT: The chief judge — an appointee of former President George W. Bush — is said to have made a more pointed argument: It would be bad optics for Judge Cannon to oversee the trial because of what had happened during the criminal investigation that led to Mr. Trump’s indictment.…

Diane Kiesel, retired judge, on Judge Aileen Cannon's handling of Donald Trump's criminal trial in MAL case. "The first thing you always do as a judge is you make sure you have a trial date set. She doesn't even have a trial date. That invites nothing happening if you will." pic.twitter.com/esMwxTd8db