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7. This is THE best summary of what's happened before & during the FL documents federal case being prosecuted by Jack Smith
Thu Feb 8, 2024, 10:35 AM
Feb 2024

Jack Smith is waiting for Cannon to make a **substantive ruling** mistake before he files an appeal to the 11th Circuit.
Based on her being previously overruled and admonished by the 11th Circuit, she has acted as if her job has been to not make substantive orders -- by holding a lot of 'pre-hearings' on CIPA -- so that her actions can't be appealed.

Smith has filed a response on trump lawyers' motion to compel: "... of approximately 48,000 guests that visited Mar-a-Lago between Jan 2021 and May 2022 (the GARLAND DOJ, before the appointment of Jack Smith) while classified documents were at the property, only 2,200 had their names checked, and only 2,900 passed through magnometers...."

... To help Cannon out, Smith says in his latest sealed court motion that there are only three questions that the jury will have to answer

-- whether Trump willfully retained documents of highly sensitive national defense information:
-- did he and his 2 co-defendants conspire to obstruct the government's inquiry into the records and
-- whether they made false statements to the FBI

If so, the jury will vote Trump guilty of

18 U.S.C. § 793(e)
18 u.s.c. § 1512(k)
18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(2)(A)
18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(l)
18 u.s.c. § 1519
18 U.S.C. § l00l(a)(l)
18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)
18 u.s.c. § 2
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490069/3/united-states-v-trump/

There's still no substantive Cannon ruling on the Special Counsel's pre-trial motion.

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