By Ken Zino

I’m hardly surprised given the smell of sulfur surrounding all things Trumpion that federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon -- appointed by Trump -- has ruled in favor of the ex-prez’s attorneys’ demand for a special master.

Trump, once again aided and abetted by the Golden Rule (he who has the gold rules) is delaying and obstructing an investigation that at a minimum raises grave national security concerns. In the latest Through the Looking Glass legal move, by Aileen -- not Alice – Cannon, the judge said she had no idea if there are any classified documents involved even though Trump’s lawyers had not presented any evidence whatsoever that the documents in question were not classified. DOJ did illustrate the classified nature of the documents with photographic precision along with sworn depositions. Canon refused to change any part of a ruling she issued last week that prohibited (Barr-ed so to speak) the department from using the documents, including 100 documents clearly marked classified in its investigation, until that special master arbiter had completed a review.

So over to Raymond J. Dearie, a semi-retired judge and now special master from the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York to read and sort through 11,000 records or documents that illegally left the White House and turned up in the long-delayed August 8 search of Mar-o-Lago after more than a year of DOJ maneuvering to get the National Security documents returned. 

The Department of Justice without doubt will appeal this ludicrous ruling. For the moment, the deny, delay … obfuscate Trumpion strategy is, like old man river, rolling along. 

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Cannon for SCOTUS? (FRI 9/16/22)

U.S. District Court Judge and potential Supreme Court nominee if Donald J. Trump grabs the 2024 presidential election Aileen Cannon famously – infamously? – was elevated to the Southern District of Florida by Trump after Trump lost his 2020 re-election bid. Her rulings in the Justice Department investigation of classified government documents found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago (conveniently located in the Southern District of Florida) uphold the ex-president’s lifelong ability to slow any legal proceedings against him and his businesses, to a crawl.

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