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Mar-a-Lago Judge’s Stark Ruling: Jury Sees Secret Files or Trump Wins
Daily Beast via Yahoo! ^ | Mon, March 18, 2024 at 9:22 PM CDT | Jose Pagliery

Posted on 03/19/2024 5:20:12 AM PDT by Red Badger

The MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records case has forced prosecutors to make a stark choice: allow jurors to see a huge trove of national secrets or let him go.

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ultimatum Monday night came as a surprise twist in what could have been a simple order; one merely asking federal prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers for proposed jury instructions at the upcoming trial.

But as she has done repeatedly, Cannon used this otherwise innocuous legal step as yet another way to swing the case wildly in favor of the man who appointed her while he was president.

Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith must now choose whether to allow jurors at the upcoming criminal trial to peruse the many classified records found at the former president’s South Florida mansion or give jurors instructions that would effectively order them to acquit him.

Alternatively, Smith could appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, where more experienced judges have already overturned Cannon and reined her in. But doing that will only further delay a trial that’s at least three months behind schedule, entirely by the judge’s own design. (She froze the investigation and tried to slow-roll document review until the appellate court forced her to stop.)

Trump and two lackeys were indicted last year for hoarding classified documents at the South Florida oceanside mansion, which doubles as a social club that’s become a mandatory stop for aspiring Republican politicians. Trump is fighting off 39 felony counts for keeping national defense information without authorization and trying to cover it up.

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To: \/\/ayne

My lacquered lakehouse for a lackey!


41 posted on 03/19/2024 6:57:00 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: hanamizu
Not unlike the style of Pravda and Izvestia back in the day or North Korean news now.

Which is why I say that NATO is the new USSR and Ukraine is our proxy.

42 posted on 03/19/2024 6:57:50 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Brian Griffin

Re: Biden

His are flying monkeys.


43 posted on 03/19/2024 6:58:28 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: patriotspride

“If I were on a jury I’d like to see what it is they are claiming”

Right.

It’s for Grand Jury (part of the indictment process—they “hand up” a “true bill” to the judge in a criminal case, who then “hands down” an indictment) to be treated like mushrooms—meaning, kept in the dark, and fed B.S.. Defense lawyers play no part in the indictment process and so cannot challenge what prosecutors choose to present to or keep from Grand Jury jurors.

The jury members for the actual criminal trial, by contrast, can’t legitimately be kept ignorant in any way in terms of the gravamen of the complaint.


44 posted on 03/19/2024 7:05:08 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Red Badger

....this might be this years most slanted, lefty, biased, poc (piece of crap) article I have read.

Ultimately Jose, this whole case will get thrown out for “selective prosecution”. So, you can start writing your marxist bilge on that.


45 posted on 03/19/2024 7:09:17 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: \/\/ayne

I AM a lackey-to our two cats….


46 posted on 03/19/2024 7:15:25 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: billorites

The Daily Beast via Yahoo. It does not get any worse than that


47 posted on 03/19/2024 7:19:53 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: Red Badger

Trump is fighting off 39 felony counts

The U.S.S.R. days are back and stronger then ever.


48 posted on 03/19/2024 7:23:32 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Red Badger

Only Jose’s mommy and two or three masochists read the daily beast.


49 posted on 03/19/2024 7:35:16 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: wiseprince

Gubment doesn’t want it. They used to own, but now they don’t.


50 posted on 03/19/2024 7:36:52 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: billorites

Wish I had lackeys.

Or, at least, some minions.


Get some henchmen. Henchmen are really the way to go.


51 posted on 03/19/2024 7:40:49 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Red Badger

Do the jurors have to pass a security clearance? Up to the Top Secret level?

If an uncleared person views the files, that shows they are not that vital to remain unseen for USA security.

So then Trump having them is OK.


52 posted on 03/19/2024 7:54:18 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense)
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To: Scrambler Bob

53 posted on 03/19/2024 7:57:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

HA! Ya gotta love her.


54 posted on 03/19/2024 8:33:25 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Red Badger

MAKES SENSE TO ME-

YOU HAVE A RIGHT-—FULL DISCLOSURE OF EVIDENCE-— to know what you are being accused of.


55 posted on 03/19/2024 9:23:44 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Red Badger

Jose Paglieri must be willfully ignorant of the history of prosecutions involving “classified” documents. Such cases normally get settled out of court, or they crash over this exact issue.

The standard pattern Jack Smith knew going in:

1) Feds overcharge in an attempt to bully the Defendants into a plea bargain. 2) If that fails, the prosecution has to provide “discovery” material to the Defense, then present evidence in open court. 3) Feds usually don’t want to release it. 4) Feds act all flustered and wronged that “Trust Us” isn’t enough. 5) Judge dismisses the case as the law requires.

Releasing the Mar-a-Lago documents will either expose the triviality of the charges or boomerang on the Dems if the material relates to their prior anti-Trump operations. Jack Smith knows which, and knew it going in, but gambled on a corrupt judge allowing this to drag on. It’s Lawfare meant to smear Trump, waste his resources, and interfere with the election, not a real case. Judge Cannon has cut to the chase quickly.

Will Jack put up or go away, bleeting that Trump was quilty but got off because the documents were so damaging, Trust Me?


56 posted on 03/19/2024 9:26:25 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: telescope115

CATS DO REQUIRE “STAFF”.

DOGS only require owners. :)


57 posted on 03/19/2024 9:27:32 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Chewbarkah

He will double down.

It’s what they do.

He will appeal the ruling as far up the ladder as he can until he either gets a stay, or he gets a slapdown..............


58 posted on 03/19/2024 9:28:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Chewbarkah

Garland & Smith picked on the wrong person.

Smith was NEVER correctly placed into the position.

He should have been confirmed by Congress-—

GARLAND BYPASSED that little detail.

THEY ALL KNOW THEY SCREWED UP-—

THAY ALSO KNOW TRUMP WILL FIRE EVERY ONE OF THEM


59 posted on 03/19/2024 9:30:20 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ridesthemiles

Right you are!🙂😻👍


60 posted on 03/19/2024 9:53:14 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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