Ex-Prosecutor Says New Trump Ruling Is ‘Worst Possible Outcome’ For Government
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Andrew Weissmann anticipated a fallout from U.S. District Judge Ailen Cannon’s comments.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Thursday argued why he believes the latest development in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case is actually the “worst possible outcome” for prosecutors.
Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said she didn’t want to “prematurely decide” on Trump’s claim that special counsel Jack Smith’s case was based on unconstitutional vagueness as she dismissed that motion brought by Trump’s attorneys.
But it left the door open for the GOP nominee’s lawyers to raise it again and delay proceedings further, Weissmann told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
Had Cannon “simply said, ‘I agree with Donald Trump and I find that this is vague and I am dismissing it,’ the government could have appealed it to the 11th Circuit, as they have done twice before, and won twice before,” said Weissmann.
That is “something that this judge is trying to avoid at all cost,” he claimed. “She also did not want to rule in favor of the government, so what she did is, said, ‘You know what, why don’t you bring this up later? I think there’s some real issues here,’ so she sort of flagged that.”
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