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BREAKING: Jack Smith Issues Veiled Threat to Judge Cannon Over Her Jury Instructions in Trump Classified Docs Case
The Gateway Pundit ^ | April 3, 2024 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 04/03/2024 12:42:34 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Special Counsel Jack Smith issued a veiled threat to Judge Aileen Cannon in response to her jury instructions.

Last month Judge Aileen Cannon issued a jury instruction order in Jack Smith’s classified documents case and the leftist legal analysts went apocalyptic.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: classifieddocs; jacksmith; judgeeileencannon; trump
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She should toss the case immediately or sanction the hell out of the little temper tantrum throwing twit.
1 posted on 04/03/2024 12:42:34 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Perhaps a gag order would be in order.


2 posted on 04/03/2024 12:45:35 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I always said Smith wasn’t very Smart. A dumbass shyster threatening a judge isn’t very bright.


3 posted on 04/03/2024 12:46:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Xiden tries to come off as a tough guy but can't stop a herd of raggedy ass Mexicans from invading.)
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A dumbass shyster threatening a judge isn’t very bright.

I think he's desperate. He knows this case is disintegrating and wishes he never started it.

He may be hoping she will kick the whole case out.

4 posted on 04/03/2024 12:49:42 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

There should be no “Trump Classified Docs Case”. There should be a “biden Classified Docs Case”.


5 posted on 04/03/2024 12:50:59 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
He may be hoping she will kick the whole case out.

That's wishful thinking, since the guilty verdicts have already been written up and accept. All of this is just Kabuki Theater and delaying the inevitable.

6 posted on 04/03/2024 12:53:38 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Jack Smith is a deep-state t###

His argument is: we, the administrative-intel deep-state, haver ultimate power to declare what documents a President can see, and keep.

Thus making the “deep state” the true executive authority of the USA.


7 posted on 04/03/2024 12:55:07 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

There it is.


8 posted on 04/03/2024 12:57:14 PM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
It was bugging me who this Jack Smith clown looks like but I figured it out:


9 posted on 04/03/2024 12:57:20 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Did the author mean apoplectic?

Judge Cannon is the only judge in this world of lawfare not tilting against Trump. Dems aren’t used to being told No.


10 posted on 04/03/2024 12:59:58 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

His intent was always to get the D.C. Circuit to seize the case from Cannon. It’s all proceeding according to the Lawfare whiteboard.


11 posted on 04/03/2024 1:07:36 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Macho MAGA Man

“Jerk” Smith...


12 posted on 04/03/2024 1:09:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

It is like they buried Trump in sand up to his neck. And then they released a couple of bulldogs to attack him. Then when the first dog ran by him, he bit it’s balls off. Then Smith beats Trump’s head with a stick and says to Judge Cannon “Trump is not plaing fair Judge”.


13 posted on 04/03/2024 1:15:17 PM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

The legal basis of Smith’s argument makes no sense to me, resting as it does on the premis that the PRA somehow binds the president.

How can Congress tell a separate and coequal branch how to conduct itself with regard to constitutionally delegated authority? Just seems crazy on its face.


14 posted on 04/03/2024 1:16:04 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Blue Highway
Jack Smith looks like a demented psycho. I'm not saying that because he's trying to beat up on President Trump. I'm saying that because if I saw him in Walmart or at a gas station, and didn't know who he was, I'd say "Gee, but that guy looks like bona fide escaped psycho."

15 posted on 04/03/2024 1:18:37 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
I think he's desperate. He knows this case is disintegrating and wishes he never started it.

I agree that Smith is desperate. I also agree that Smith knows his case is disintegrating. However, I disagree that Smith wishes he never started it. He is all in on prosecuting Trump wherever, whenever, and however he can.

His goal was never to secure a conviction, it was to tie up Trump's time and resources as much as he could during the campaign.

In other words, election interference.

16 posted on 04/03/2024 1:21:42 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Perhaps a gag order would be in order.

Yeah.....like a sock jammed down his throat..


17 posted on 04/03/2024 1:29:29 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Macho MAGA Man

No, that allows him to start appeals and other criminal assaults on Trump. Better that she does as she is and kneels on the ball to run the clock out. Jack wants a speedy and trial that she is under no obligation to provide.
And maybe jack will pop a critical vessel.


18 posted on 04/03/2024 1:31:53 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: I want the USA back

There is no classified documents case. Trump is not charged for possessing any classified documents. All he possessed were declassified documents.
That is why they keep prattling on about “documents stamped secret”. They do not want to try to litigate whether or not the documents were classified, so they are bizarrely charging him under the WWI Espionage Act with possessing “National Defense Information”, that does NOT have to be classified.

Jack is basically from the Netherlands and thinks he is operating at the International Criminal Court at the Hague, which America is not a member of.


19 posted on 04/03/2024 1:36:01 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Julie Kelly X-Twitter thread via Thread reader:

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Reading Jack Smith's response on jury instructions and it's clear that the gloves are off btw DOJ and Judge Cannon.

One defense attorney just told me: "The tone Smith is taking with Cannon is no longer persuasion but outright threats. Unheard of dynamic btw DOJ and the bench." 
Jack Smith's response is hysterical (and not in a funny way in a desperate way) bc he knows he has little control over her decision related to final jury instructions.

And he is arguing the basis for Trump's "unauthorized possession" of national defense material rests on Obama exec order not the Presidential Records Act.

So everyone who cried for months that "DRUMPF BROKE THE PRA!" can sit down. Jack Smith says PRA now has nothing to do with the case.

Also reminder of the bait and switch here. NARA sought files based on the claims Trump was violating the PRA. He produced 15 boxes of papers. NARA then claimed they found records with "classified markings" and sent a criminal referral (1st time ever) to FBI.

FBI promptly opened investigation. FBI sent a subpoena to Trump in May 2022 seeking more records with "classified markings." They turned over 38 more files.

Then in August, FBI sought search warrant seeking "national defense information." Reminder too we have not seen full unredacted application for search warrant.

Did DOJ seek warrant under the PRA or the Espionage Act or Obama's Exec Order or....what?
I will separate out Smith's threats to Cannon (unusual and toothless for the most part) later but this is basically the jury instructions DOJ wants to use.

This also might be a problem for DOJ bc it appears Trump still had Q security clearance at Dept. of Energy--one that DOE retroactively rescinded after Smith indicted Trump.

Also during March 14 hearing, DOJ claimed there was no formal process for a president to either receive or lose security clearance. So this might be another area of contention.
 
This is why Smith is so angry--he knows if Cannon proceeds with the proposed scenario presented in her jury instructions order, he is, as one defense attorney told me at the time, f*cked.

He essentially demands that she rule now on jury instructions (she doesn't have to) or dismiss the counts so he can appeal. If she doesn't, he might seek "mandamus" at appellate court--asking 11th Circuit to tell Cannon what to do in the case. Very rare.
A reminder that this is Smith's indictment.

Charged a former president for the first time on violating the Espionage Act.

Now Smith's wants the jury to interpret the language of the law based on Obama's Executive Order not the Presidential Records Act.


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20 posted on 04/03/2024 1:43:37 PM PDT by Bratch
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