U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon appeared exasperated with everyone at her latest hearing in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, said Katelyn Polantz on CNN Tuesday.
Cannon, a Trump-appointed judge who has become controversial for dragging out the case and antagonizing prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith, did not appear receptive to the Trump legal team's claim that the search warrant of the former president's South Florida country club for classified documents was invalid, said Polantz — but she still bristled at the prosecution's effort to rein in the Trump team's behavior.
"Take us inside today's hearing," said anchor Wolf Blitzer.
"Wolf, this was a hearing this afternoon that was a rare occasion in the hearings that Judge Aileen Cannon has had many times for two reasons," said Polantz. "First of all, she showed her hand and second of all, it didn't go particularly well for Donald Trump's defense team. That is not how a lot of other hearings have gone for them, even when Judge Cannon ultimately doesn't rule in their favor."
"In this one, their team was arguing to Judge Cannon that the search warrant that the FBI and Justice Department used and went to court to get approval of two years ago was signed off on by a judge, that that was invalid and that it should cause the entire case or a lot of the evidence that was seized during that search of Mar-a-Lago, all of that should be thrown out," Polantz continued. "And Judge Cannon, she just wasn't buying it. She said at the very end of the hearing, Wolf, 'I have a hard time seeing what more needed to be included in the search warrant.' The team was trying to say for Donald Trump that this warrant just wasn't specific enough about what could be taken out of the property or what rooms in Mar-a-Lago agents could go into. Judge Aileen Cannon made pretty clear she didn't agree with that argument. She hasn't ruled yet, and even while she may not be ruling in favor of Trump's team, we still have to wait and see what she does."
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"It didn't go exactly perfectly for the prosecutors either," she added. "She has had quite a lot of tension with them in many hearings. Dressing down prosecutor David Harbach yesterday in court several times, and then today at the very end of the hearing, he jumped up and wanted to point out to her that the defense team was trying to 'hijack the hearings,' that was his words because he thought Trump's team was trying to make accusations about the FBI that were too political and Judge Cannon shut it down immediately, she said these hearings are not being hijacked and we're going to conclude here, I've heard enough."
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