Trump classified documents trial postponed indefinitely

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Source: CNBC

Published Tue, May 7 2024 5:02 PM EDT Updated 15 Min Ago


A federal judge Tuesday indefinitely postponed the criminal classified documents trial of former President Donald Trump, a court filing shows.

The trial on charges that Trump willfully retained classified national security records after leaving the White House and then hid them from federal authorities was scheduled to start May 20. But the new ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon vacates that date and sets a new slate of pretrial proceedings, the latest of which is a hearing set for July 22.

The ruling casts more doubt on whether Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will face trial on the federal criminal charges prior to the Nov. 5 election. Lawyers for Trump have urged Cannon, whom Trump appointed to the federal bench in southern Florida, to set the trial after the election.

Cannon wrote in Tuesday’s court order that it “would be imprudent” to finalize a trial date “at this juncture” when various pretrial issues have yet to be resolved. Cannon pointed to pending questions about how classified information will be handled in the high-profile trial of the former president, along with “additional pretrial and trial preparations necessary to present this case to a jury.”

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/07/trump-classified-documents-trial-postponed-indefinitely.html

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Published Tue, May 7 2024 5:02 PM EDT Updated 2 Min Ago


A federal judge Tuesday indefinitely postponed the criminal classified documents trial of former President Donald Trump, a court filing shows. The trial on charges that Trump willfully retained classified national security records after leaving the White House and then hid them from federal authorities was scheduled to start May 20.

But the new ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon vacates that date and sets a new slate of pre-trial proceedings, the latest of which is a hearing set for July 22. The ruling casts more doubt on whether Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will face trial on the federal criminal charges prior to the Nov. 5 election.

Cannon wrote in Tuesday's court order that it "would be imprudent" to finalize a trial date "at this juncture" when various pre-trial issues have yet to be resolved.

Cannon pointed to pending questions about how classified information will be handled in the high-profile trial of the former president, and "additional pretrial and trial preparations necessary to present this case to a jury." To move forward with the trial in May would be "inconsistent with the Court's duty to fully and fairly consider" those issues, she wrote.

Published Tue, May 7 2024 5:02 PM EDT Updated 2 Min Ago


A federal judge Tuesday indefinitely postponed the criminal classified documents trial of former President Donald Trump, a court filing shows.

The trial on charges that Trump willfully retained classified national security records after leaving the White House and then hid them from federal authorities was scheduled to start May 20.

But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in Tuesday's court order that it "would be imprudent" to finalize a trial date "at this juncture" when various pre-trial issues have yet to be resolved.

Cannon pointed to pending questions about how classified information will be handled in the high-profile trial of the former president, and "additional pretrial and trial preparations necessary to present this case to a jury." To move forward with the trial in May would be "inconsistent with the Court's duty to fully and fairly consider" those issues, she wrote.

Published Tue, May 7 2024 5:02 PM EDT Updated 4 Min Ago


A federal judge Tuesday indefinitely postponed the criminal classified documents trial of former President Donald Trump, a court filing shows.

The trial, on charges that Trump willfully retained classified national security records after leaving the White House and then hid them from federal authorities, was scheduled to start May 20.


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Published Tue, May 7 2024 5:02 PM EDT Updated 3 Min Ago


A federal judge Tuesday indefinitely postponed the criminal classified documents trial of former President Donald Trump, a court filing shows.

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[Barry Markson]

1. Smith may have fucked up with an admission of evidence misshandling in a filing last Friday.

He's apparently done it before when he was at the Hague.

[Traurigkeit]

4. ha.. this is all made up by "justice" Cannon.

[emulatorloo]

8. Citation?

[melm00se]

14. Here's the order

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0_2.pdf

[Barry Markson]

22. Prosecutors: Docs in boxes seized from Mar-a-Lago were inadvertently jumbled

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team acknowledged mischaracterizing the issue at a recent hearing in the Trump classified documents case, but said the reordering was not significant.

"Mischaracterization" is a noun that means the act of describing something in an inaccurate or misleading way.

It's probably up to the court to decide if significant or not. You know which way Cannon decided.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team acknowledged Friday that some evidence in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump for hoarding classified documents at his Florida home may not be in the same sequence FBI agents found it when they swept into the Mar-a-Lago compound with a search warrant in August 2022.

The concession from prosecutors in a court filing Friday afternoon came after attorneys for one of Trump’s co-defendants asked for a delay in the case because the defense lawyers were having trouble determining precisely where particular documents had come from in the 33 boxes the FBI seized almost two years ago.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/03/mar-a-lago-trump-classified-documents-00156124

[ancianita]

47. Why would such a minor concession be relevant to the The People's 6th Amendment right to a speedy trial,

especially when they deserve a trial under the Espionage Act.
So what if Smith can't perfectly align the documents' order. I don't get how one conceded imprecision impugns the accuracy of the overall pre-trial preparation. So what.
It smells like a typical Cannon bias toward looking for further pretext for further trial delay.
Defense needs due process, but this doesn't rise to any level of major prosecutorial error.

This judge is ill equipped to handle any criminal trial of this historical magnitude. Even the 11th Circuit knows The People deserve better. Smith should appeal to the 11th Circuit.

[onenote]

72. The "speedy trial" clause of the 6th amendment does not give the "people" that right. It gives the accused that right.

The Sixth Amendment states: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial.... It does not say that "the people" have that right.

[rzemanfl]

26. Please elaborate these "fuck ups" counselor. n/t

[Barry Markson]

27. See #22

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[rzemanfl]

38. Looks to me like Cannon's goofy order caused this.

No clue about The Hague.

[Barry Markson]

41. You mean this part

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team acknowledged Friday that some evidence in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump for hoarding classified documents at his Florida home may not be in the same sequence FBI agents found it when they swept into the Mar-a-Lago compound with a search warrant in August 2022.

Maybe.

[rzemanfl]

67. No, there is language about Cannon's order, which was reversed on appeal, in the article.

[dpibel]

32. Tell us about the Hague

This story has a familiar ring to it. I'm pretty sure I've heard it somewhere else.

Just can't quite put my finger on it...

[jimfields33]

52. How can the trial begin may 20th? How????????????

[dpibel]

58. You seem pretty excited about this

Maybe even tickled.

[Barry Markson]

68. Just amused by the number of folks that think any of this will derail trump.

The Georgia Court of Appeals announced this morning it is taking up the trump motion for knocking Fani's office out.

President Biden had better get his ass out on the campaign trail.
This ain't the 2020 pandemic anymore, trump has to be soundly defeated at the ballot box and Joe needs to show his stuff.

Quality not quantity isn't going to work.

If you attack the king you'd better kill the king.

[dpibel]

70. "Ass out on the campaign trail"?

I think you might want to check the source of your news.

Also, you believe Trump is the king, and that he is only now under attack?

Friend. Check your talking points. I think you're getting them mixed up.

And just for kicks: How does your claim that Smith "fucked up the admission of evidence" address people's belief about what is going to derail Trump?

[bullimiami]

2. Whatever. He is going to lose and eventually spend his remaining miserable years in jail.

[The Grand Illuminist]

10. Don't underestimate him.

With what is going on now, if there is no unquestioned unity, he has a shot.

[oldsoftie]

20. He'll never spend a day in a real prison regardless of his convictions.

The secret service simply wont allow it & right now there's no mechanism to change their authority.

[NYC Liberal]

40. They'll stick him on a military base in isolated housing.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

59. Maybe ...

we can lease Saint Helena from the Brits and keep him there for the duration.

[oldsoftie]

71. That would probably be the closest to a real prison.

They could have nice quarters for the SS & prevent anyone from visiting and hopefully block his internet too

[NanaCat]

60. The Secret Service doesn't tell the courts what to do

They have zero authority to do that. In fact they must abide by all lawful orders...such as court decisions. It's right there in federal court that they must act as officers of the law.

If a court says he goes to jail, then he goes to jail, and up yours to the SS if they don't like it. They'll have to figure out a way to make it work, or someone else will do their jobs for them.

[oldsoftie]

66. I disagree but I doubt either of us will ever be proven correct.

I certainly hope its YOU who is correct & also hope we'll see.
But as things stand today; IMO aint happening. Even if convicted he'll appeal FOREVER. And for this current case, if convicted he wouldnt get jail anyway.
We wont see any of the others make it to court before Election Day.
It SUCKS.

[LudwigPastorius]

51. Maybe, but if he wins in November this case, and the federal election interference case, will probably go away.

If Trump becomes president again, he simply picks up the phone and tells his AG to fire Jack Smith and move to dismiss the indictments in the federal cases.

[BWdem4life]

3. Justice delayed... justice denied.

"A federal judge"? Why not name her?

Loose Cannon

[sheshe2]

5. This is the most important case, IMO.

This has to do with our national security and we get a loose cannon trying to bury it.

[Lucky Luciano]

6. Lock her up

[peppertree]

35. And deport her

She's 3rd world jurisprudence in the flesh - and her middle name, is Mercedes.

[Botany]

7. I wonder if this has to do with Walt Nauta having pictures of the boxes of stolen top secret documents and

…. that V.S.P. told him to not send back certain boxes that Trump stole to the National Archives?
I think Judge Cannon knows that V.S.P. goose is cooked and the best outcome she can work for
is delaying the trial until after the election. America executed the Rosenbergs for the same type
of actions and FBI Agent Robert Hansen died in the Colorado Fed. Super Max doing 15 life terms
for stealing and selling our secrets to the U.S.S.R. Trump deserves the same fate and if what I
suspect he did is correct* he is in deep shit that even Cannon can’t get him out of it.

*. Botany = I might be wrong.

[FakeNoose]

11. Yep I'm thinking the same thing - I hope Walt Nauta is going for a plea bargain

If he doesn't plead guilty and testify, he's screwed. Chump will blame everything on him and walk out the door a free man. Nauta needs a different lawyer post haste.

[Comfortably_Numb]

9. She's got a busy jet-setting itinerary since her billionaire puppeteers have to keep her happy.

She’s a partisan hack, but she doesn’t have the same “get out of ethics free” card that CORRUPTSCOTUS enjoys. Hope it’s going to be her turn in the barrel soon.

[Lovie777]

12. Goes to show that the GQP judges and justices care nothing ................................

about the USA's national security.

Do I feel safe? Hell no.

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. Fight back with fire

Trump keeps want to move trials to "The Court of Public Opinion"

Okay, let's make it a massive campaign issue AND make sure the public knows EVERYTHING about Judge Cannon while we're at it.

[The Grand Illuminist]

34. As long as there are protests that will continue,

This will be tough.

[Ford_Prefect]

15. Sounds like they lose the start date, yes? Which means someone else can claim it?..And Pull DJT off the Campaign trail?

[bluestarone]

16. I know nothing about how judges and courts do their thing, BUT

Maybe Jack will finally get a new judge? Don't ask me how or why, but could it be part of his plan? He probably KNEW this won't get to a court room until AFTER this years election anyhow.

[onenote]

75. Jack knows a lot about how judges and courts do their thing.

Which is why he hasn't, and almost certainly won't, waste time trying to get Cannon removed.

[iluvtennis]

17. Cannon ..it would be imprudent to finalize a trial date when various pretrial issues aren't resolved.. And why aren't

the issues resolved -- BECAUSE SHE HASN"T DONE HER DAMN JOB.

[liberalmediaaddict]

57. Exactly!

She's not only corrupt she has no clue how to handle this case.

Her inability or unwillingness to rule on anything is ridiculous.

[iluvtennis]

69. Indeed. Incompetent and corrupt - so dangerous. n/t

[Novara]

18. Get that idiot off the goddamn bench. Now.

This was her plan all along. Drag her feet on everything and postpone the trial so that it can't happen.

And yeah, this IS the most important case because it shows what a fucking security risk he is to the entire fucking country.

Get her off the goddamn bench.

The case that is being tried in NY right now may be the ONLY criminal case we EVER see for the motherfucker. He will never be held accountable for the most egregious of his crimes.

This infuriates me.

[ancianita]

49. When she's complicit with a security risk, that makes HER a security risk.

[oldsoftie]

19. As I said long ago, this will never see court before the. election

I doubt ANY of the others will either.
Thats been the plan all along; delay delay delay.
The govt should have NEVER given him SO long to return the documents. He shouldve been in court a year ago.
And as I've also said long ago, VOTING is the only thing that'll keep him out of the White House again. Not convictions.

[Chainfire]

21. This case was never going to trial before the election.

Cannon is part of the defense team. Smith doesn't have the pull that Trump does.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. traitortrump's loose cannon delays the trial because of delays his loose cannon created for him.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. Anyone surprised.........NC

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Oh GODDAMN IT. THIS REALLY PISSES ME OFF, AND I HOPE IT PISSES OFF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TOO. nt

[bdamomma]

44. Pisses me off too

Loose Cannon, was given an offer she couldn't refuse. She has doing his bidding for a long time.

That thug has put our national security in jeopardy. I'm sure our adversaries are celebrating.
Their useful idiot is coming through for them. This really sucks. Now again, it is up to us, to VOTE in record numbers. This will be our last chance. Unless there is a medical issue to change everything.

[Freethinker65]

28. What if TFG still has some documents, or copies of them, and they know if found guilty Trump will sell or expose to all

their contents.

Trump, with relation to the stolen documents, is still a National security threat.

[Evolve Dammit]

61. Apparently, we will never know

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. Qannon is bought and paid for

[BootinUp]

30. This case is not over, you can take that

To the bank.

[republianmushroom]

31. And that myth "No one is above the law." is just that, a myth.

Looks like the puppet master may have won this one. Not surprising.

Can't wait to hear from the cheer leaders who said this wouldn't happen.

39 months and counting (includes foot dragging, hand wringing and court delays)

[Lucky Luciano]

33. Ultimately another fail for droopy dog Merrick

[Tarc]

36. Cannon is on the take, and the DoJ should get a warrant for her communications

There is almost certainly coordination with Team Trump, probably via Bannon or Miller.

[prodigitalson]

56. probably through her father in law

is how they communicate with her

[onenote]

74. Speculation is not probable cause.

[BlueKota]

37. Maybe I am feeling pessimistic

because I am ill but I think he is going to get away with all of it. Cannon and the Evil 6 have his back.

I also think they will try and steal the election too. I plan to vote Biden and hope the majority do to. The Republicans stopped caring about following the laws, however, along time ago , and if the courts end up refusing to uphold Constitutional law regarding elections, then what?

History is paved with a wide swath of governments and civilizations who thought they were invincible and they weren't. I really think so many people are stubbornly convinced that a dictatorship isn't going to happen here, and that the norms will hold and save the day that no one wants to even consider a plan B if they don't. I feel like we will be sitting ducks, if people don't wake the hell up. I mean even John Stewart is acting like what the hell. Having an old guy is scarier than having a dictator? I mean wtf. I got a few documentaries to recommend to him about what's gone on in just Germany, China, and Russia alone under dictators over the decades.

If it comes down to a Trump dictatorship, or our side having to defend us from him by breaking a few norms along the way too, I prefer they defend us.

[70sEraVet]

39. This was the case I had been counting on, to turn Vet buddies against Trump!

They don't care about porn star payoffs, and the Jan. 6 insurrection has been muddied by right-wing conspiracies for over three years.
But the stolen classified documents -- THAT'S a crime veterans understand! They know that the safety of our nation depends on safeguarding those classified documents.

[NowsTheTime]

42. If tfg gets off due to a corrupt judge, that's ok with them?

[70sEraVet]

45. If the trial gets indefinitely postponed, its OUT OF THE NEWS!

No explosive testimony about orders to move boxes around, no revelations about who ordered a lock to be changed on a closet door before the FBI arrived, no testimony about how many Maralago guests may have had access to those documents.
A trial, and a VERDICT, is necessary.

[NowsTheTime]

46. You're likely right. Probably only move is to expose evidence. Now too much potential for trial delay.

....we have to win in Nov!

[Orrex]

55. His KKKult of fuckheads will accept any excuse to continue eating his shit

They could catch Trump in the act of violently sodomizing their own children, and they'd still mortgage their homes to pay for his legal defense. A corrupt judge won't even be a blip on their radar.

[Martin68]

43. A crooked judge derails the trial of a president guilty of mishandling classified files for his own personal reasons.

Perfect example of how appointed judges can derail the justice system.

[KS Toronado]

48. Make the pretrial proceedings May 20th, why wait 2 months?

"Because I'm a reQublican judge who knows this is a witch hunt of a innocent reQublican by Democrats."
Says loose cannon

[jimfields33]

53. Because there is a trial going on. How can anyone not see this?

You can’t have two trials going on at the same time.

[prodigitalson]

50. wow, tfg called a lot of people screaming in the last few days

[live love laugh]

54. And Republican owned media played catch-and-kill with it.

Barely mentioned and even when mentioned it is without context.

[COL Mustard]

62. Color Me Shocked......

Not!

[Old Crank]

63. Why hasn't the court above her

kicked her off the case for her negligence in her filings for getting fat cat trips?

[onenote]

73. Because appellate courts don't respond to social media posts.

They respond to actual filings by actual parties in interest, and the prosecution has not, and in all likelihood, will not seek her removal.

[msfiddlestix]

64. I didn't know a trial could be legally postponed indefinitely. Either dismiss or proceed to schedule.

I'm not remembering having ever heard of a trial being postponed indefinitely.

[onenote]

77. In February Judge Chutkan vacated the original trial date in the Jan 6 trial and did not set new date.

Effectively an "indefinite" postponement.

[Hotler]

65. Then the Prtesidential Election should be postponed until after ALL the orange one's trails are over.

The American people need to know whether or not he is guilty of crimes before cast votes. Joe Biden stay President until the trials are over.

[onenote]

76. Sure. Let's have a big public ceremony where we burn the Constitution.