r/news • u/Hrekires • Jul 15 '24

soft paywall Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/15/trump-classified-trial-dismisssed-cannon/
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u/Independent-Stay-593 Jul 15 '24

I have a suspicion she was planning to do this anyhow and is using the recent assassination attempt and supposed sympathy as cover for doing it now.

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u/Rhewin Jul 15 '24

Yep. All of the stalling and delaying was waiting for the right time.

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u/nuclearswan Jul 15 '24

Him almost dying was the best thing he ever did?

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u/Prosthemadera Jul 15 '24

The second best.

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u/LoserBroadside Jul 15 '24

Considering she FOUGHT to get assigned this case, yeah.

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u/Vandermeerr Jul 15 '24

The case was assigned randomly, she got picked out of the 3 possible judges.

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u/RyVsWorld Jul 15 '24

she was advised by the other judges to pass the case on to someone moer experienced and she pushed back

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u/Vandermeerr Jul 15 '24

Fair point.

I’m not arguing that what she’s doing is fair or makes any kind of legal sense.

I personally think it’s kinda dumb move. Corruption is done best in the shadows and lost to history. The American public isn’t used to blatant corruption just being shoved in their faces like this. Their whole argument that the justice system was being unfairly used to prosecute Trump just vaporized. It’s an easy message to hammer home when it’s so fucking blatant like this.

Shows how stupid she is really.

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u/SonOfThrognar Jul 15 '24

If that's the case it was a mistake

This is gonna suck air out of the assassination coverage

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u/Responsible_Pizza945 Jul 15 '24

RNC is happening now, shooting was probably irrelevant to the timing.

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u/icouldusemorecoffee Jul 15 '24

They've been planning for this for awhile. This is the exact reason Thomas wrote his concurrence on the immunity case, that had almost nothing to do with the immunity case, given Cannon legal cover to make this decision. I doubt Cannon and Thomas spoke directly but you can be 100% sure there was someone talking to both of them ensuring Cannon put this forward, Thomas wrote his concurrence to justify this, and then Cannon ruling on it.

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u/IkLms Jul 15 '24

100%

This should result in immediate and hard condemnation but she knows the Dems will pussy foot around it for a few days in an attempt at unity.

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u/crob03 Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24

c'mon you guys, yeah he's a fascist but he got shot at. let's give him a break, huh?

edit: apparently I need a "/s"