Judge Aileen Cannon has cooked up yet another way to slow-walk Donald Trump’s classified documents case, handing the ex-president a partial win Thursday as his lawyers work overtime to delay his trial until after the election.
Cannon wrote in an 11-page order that she’d indulge Trump’s lawyers and hold more pre-trial hearings in which they can challenge evidence gathered against Trump in relation to his alleged pilfering of classified documents.
The Florida-based district judge, who was appointed by Trump after he lost the 2020 election but before he left office, wrote that “further factual development is warranted” regarding the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, suggesting she may be receptive to claims from Trump’s lawyers that something is off about the case.
