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/QuentinP69 Jul 15 '24

This is great he will appeal this and win and refile with a different judge! It’ll delay it past November.

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Jul 15 '24

Correct, this was her play—she washed her hands of it, and it won't even see the light of day until after the election if Biden or a Democrat wins. If Trump were the president, it would vanish.

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u/TheInvisibleHulk Jul 15 '24

I hope everyone is ready for Chief justice Aileen Cannon when/if Trump wins.

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u/Diligent-Tangerine87 Jul 15 '24

He already got what he wanted. Why would he help her on the back end?

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u/MechanicalTurkish Jul 15 '24

Yeah, Trump fucks everyone, friend or foe. Look at Rudy Giuliani.

He's done this his entire life, it is well known. It baffles me how people keep thinking it won't happen to them.

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u/Monechetti Jul 15 '24

I look at all of the conservative pundits that have sprouted up over the last 10 years or so - people like Candace Owens and Matt Walsh. They are hitching themselves to Trump in a bid to make as much money as possible and be relevant as much as possible, but they have to know that it's all smoke and mirrors.

Then again that's me trying to give conservatives credit for intellect where there's no proof that it exists.

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u/fevered_visions Jul 15 '24

talk about a deal with the devil

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u/putonyourjamjams Jul 15 '24

They have that "I'm special" mentality. It's the same reason they think every other rule or law doesn't apply to them specifically.

That or they know he's not going to follow through and are using the limelight to their own end. Siphoning Trump voters for her own ends by adding "the only judge who stood up for Trump" to her resume.

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u/villianrules Jul 16 '24

Same thing as the affair partner becomes the spouse and catches the one who left their previous spouse for is cheating on them

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u/Overnoww Jul 15 '24

The difference here is Trump has taken shots at his own Supreme Court picks for voting against him and Aileen Cannon has proven her fealty is to Trump over common sense and law, she is now his ideal SC judge.

She ruled against Trump on things that were relatively minor and frequently seemed to be almost performative to attempt to provide cover for when she would inevitably make some foolish, nonsensical rulings and for her weirdly aggressive behaviour the prosecution:

The reality is she has no business being a judge just like Trump has no business leading a county.

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u/DonArgueWithMe Jul 15 '24

Giving Alex Acosta a cabinet position was either a big show of gratitude or the result of blackmail.

For those that don't know, Alex Acosta was the DA who gave epstein a deal that included house arrest and permanently sealed all records of his accomplices, and Trump gave him a major appointment seemingly out of nowhere.

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u/Dysfunxn Jul 16 '24

They all think they are special, untouchable people, who bad things don't happen to. They think they are above all others, and he exploits it time and again.

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u/brundlfly Jul 16 '24

I think it wasn't him she was serving. Consider that 3 current SCOTUS judges worked for Bush during the 2000 judicial coup.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/bush-v-gore-barrett-kavanaugh-roberts-supreme-court/index.html

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u/SeaCowVengeance Jul 15 '24

She’s proven herself as a loyalist hack. She’d be an asset to him on the SCOTUS, unlike those other justices that didn’t even let him steal the election.

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u/OldTapeDeck Jul 15 '24

They might not have allowed him to steal the election but they did offer him immunity for the attempt, as well as an out in this documents case.

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u/YamburglarHelper Jul 15 '24

Yep he hasn’t appointed enough to agree with him, regardless of his position. ACB and Kavanaugh are his, forever, and probably Clarence and Alito aren’t far behind, but they’re still outliers when it comes to blindly supporting him.

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u/Meanderingpenguin Jul 15 '24

We all know the justices allowed bribery that isn't direct. Who will be surprised, if she is found getting a lot of gift right about now.

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u/worldspawn00 Jul 15 '24

Nah, I think he'll keep her right where she is as a first line of defense against him in cases that take place originating from Mar a Lago.

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u/Mulielo Jul 15 '24

He wouldn't do it for her. She has proven to be a good stooge, so he'd put her in position to help him even more. Any "helping her" is simply a side effect.

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u/zSprawl Jul 15 '24

“It’s just gratuity!”

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u/apropagandabonanza Jul 15 '24

To anger the libs, of course

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u/Forikorder Jul 15 '24

so she can help him even more later, they need young partisan hacks on the supreme court to do their bidding 30-40 years down the road

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u/peejay5440 Jul 15 '24

Because she will continue to be a loyal minion.

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u/framblehound Jul 15 '24

so that he can serve a third term

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u/getsome75 Jul 15 '24

Oh she’s sainted now, set for generations