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Judge Cannon is waiting for a Trump 'Hail Mary pass' so she can spike Mar-a-Lago case

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner bashed U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon for wasting time by considering frivolous motions as she drags her feet on Donald Trump's obstruction of justice trial.He then suggested she is desperately looking for a way to shut the case down.Speaking with hosts about the Mar-a-Lago case brought by special counsel Jack Smith against the former president, Kirschner claimed that Cannon was stockpiling — and not resolving— motions from Trump's legal team like a "like a beaver building a logjam, a dam with all these motions." He then claimed it looked like she is waiting for help from the former president's legal team that would allow her to dismiss the case in such a manner that it could never be brought to trial."One way you can guarantee never being able to set a trial date is if you always have more motions to resolve before you can get there — that seems to be one of the reasons," he told the hosts. "We know Donald Trump's legal team, look at what he did in New York, bogus motion after bogus motion after bogus motion, I think we could call them all Hail Mary passes. None of them were caught, right? Not by a trial court judge or by the appellate court judges in New York. He went to trial and got convicted in a New York minute on the evidence.""I'm afraid Judge Cannon is, you know, standing uncovered in the end zone waiting to catch Donald Trump's Hail Mary pass and maybe dismiss the case," he added before continuing, "And here is what drives me to distraction: we have talked about a motion to recuse before. If she dismisses this case in a way that deprives Jack Smith of being able to appeal the dismissal, and there are ways to do that once the case moves into trial, we will be looking back saying, why in the world wasn't there a recusal motion that was litigated in the full light of day and let the 11th Circuit rule one way or another?"Watch below or at the link. MSNBC 06 16 2024 09 15 22 youtu.be