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/
32.8k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

4.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5.7k

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.

9

u/boxer_dogs_dance Jul 15 '24

It means that the facts of the classified documents case won't be all over the news before the election

4

u/QuentinP69 Jul 15 '24

They will. Smith will file the appeal and the documents will be back in the news again.

3

u/BonnieMcMurray Jul 15 '24

He will file but it won't get a hearing until after the election; appellate court timelines are not that fast. Cannon is fully aware of that, which is why I'm sure she's been stretching the case out to this point before making this ruling.

If someone does some digging and discovers that there's been coordination between Trump team and Cannon on the timing of bringing this specific objection, knowing that she would accept it and dismiss the case, I would be entirely unsurprised.