Judge Aileen Cannon thought she was handing Donald Trump a consolation prize when she dropped a paragraph from his indictment — but she may have just landed him with extra charges, a Florida prosecutor said Saturday.
Cannon, who’s overseeing Trump’s classified documents criminal case in Florida, refused his legal team’s effort to have some charges against him dropped this week.
But she handed him a“sweetener” at the same time, striking a paragraph from the indictment which concerns Trump allegedly showing a classified document to a Political Action Committee representative.
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But the “sweetener” might backfire, Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County where Mar-a-Lago is situated, warned on MSNBC.
“I think [Cannon] would like to give him a win and she was rejecting his request to dismiss everything,” he said.
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“I can see this as a consolation prize. I had to rule against you, but here is a little piece of butterscotch because I did not take you out for ice cream.
He went on, arguing that Cannon’s ruling was really meaningless to the trial because Trump had not actualy been charged with crimes involving showing documents to others.
But, he said, Cannon might have just tempted him to do just that.
“It looks bad, but Jack Smith hasn't charged Donald Trump with the dissemination of the documents — but really Judge Cannon is daring Jack Smith to do it,” he said.”
“She's saying, if you want to bring this stuff up, you going to have to charge him with the crime.
“And Jack Smith is thinking, don't tempt him with a good time because I will do it.”
The classified documents case involves top security papers that Trump is accused of taking with him when he left the White House and storing them illegally at his Mar-a-Lago home.
