CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen on Wednesday knocked special counsel Jack Smith for filing criminal charges against former President Donald Trump in Florida, where he risked his case getting taken up by Judge Aileen Cannon.
In breaking down Cannon's decision to indefinitely postpone the Trump classified documents case, Eisen argued that Smith could have avoided Cannon-related headaches had he just been a little more patient.
"Jack Smith should have never brought this case in Florida," he said. "He had the option of bringing it in D.C. There was a pending Supreme Court case that was holding him up that, if he guessed wrong, the case could have been thrown out altogether. It was decided at just a few days after he filed, he should have waited. It's one of his biggest mistakes in his record of prosecuting Trump."
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That said, Eisen argued that Cannon's actions in delaying Trump's trial indefinitely were truly outrageous.
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"There's no excuse for what this judge has done," he said. "I do think it's a mix of incompetence and bias. She was reversed twice by the extremely conservative 11th Circuit for interfering with the investigation when it was getting going... but... there's not enough to remove her from the case here. This case is not going to trial in 2024. It makes the Alvin Bragg prosecution of Trump all the more important because that may be the only criminal case we get against Trump."
Eisen wasn't the only legal analyst to trash Cannon's decision making on Wednesday morning, as MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that "I continue to be disappointed by Judge Cannon and her execution of the role of federal jurist here," while host Joe Scarborough argued that "a 12-year-old that went with her mother to 'take a kid to court' day, like as a lawyer, would have come up with a better ruling than she has come up with."
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