The Malignant Loser appeared in the Florida District court of his fan girl Judge Aileen Cannon this morning to hear his team's arguments that the criminal classified documents be dismissed on frivolous grounds. He's hoping that his appointed judge will further drag out the proceeding that should have been well on its way to resolution by now. From Forbes.com reporting:
Former President Donald Trump is expected to attend a court hearing in Florida Thursday, as U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon considers several of the ex-president’s requests to have most of his criminal charges for allegedly mishandling White House documents thrown out. [snip]
Cannon will hear arguments on two of Trump’s motions to dismiss the charges against him, one alleging they’re invalid under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and another trying to have them thrown out for “unconstitutional vagueness.”
Trump alleges he was allowed to designate White House records as personal under the PRA, a 1978 law passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal, and thus didn’t illegally willfully retain national security information, as he’s been charged with.
The Justice Department says Trump is wrong and the PRA does not give him that authority, writing the documents Trump possessed at Mar-a-Lago are 'indisputably presidential, not personal.'”
He's also said the Espionage Act didn't apply to his case, an argument vigorously rejected by the Justice Department. Legal experts agree that the Malignant Loser's case is flimsy at best (although Cannon may not see her patron's arguments that way):
"Some legal experts have been heavily skeptical of Trump’s PRA claims, with Jason R. Baron, the former director of litigation at the National Archives, telling The Washington Post the ex-president’s argument is 'absurd.' 'A president cannot designate records about White House official business — classified or unclassified — as personal,' Baron told the Post, slamming Trump’s claims that 'merely … transferring boxes to Mar-a-Lago converts the legal status of their contents from presidential records to personal.' Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance also criticized Trump’s legal motions Thursday morning, tweeting, 'I've handled a lot of motions in criminal cases. These are barely better than frivolous.'”
Despite the obvious absurdity of the Malignant Loser's arguments, Cannon will likely drag out a ruling as long as possible helping him run out the clock, or unless and until Special Counsel Jack Smith takes the matter up with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse her.
(photos: Trump and his appointee)
