'Mental': Former Trump WH lawyer shreds Judge Cannon for keeping Jack Smith report secret

17 January

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon indicated in a recent hearing that she wasn't planning on allowing even just a handful of congressional leaders to view the second volume of Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's final report.

In a Friday evening interview with CNN host Erin Burnett, Ty Cobb — who was a White House counsel in President-elect Donald Trump's first administration — blasted Cannon's hesitancy to make the report even somewhat transparent. When Burnett pointed out that Cannon asked the DOJ "what's the urgency of doing this right now," while wryly mentioning that Trump was due to be inaugurated in just three days, Cobb didn't hold back.

"The mere fact that she can ask that question shows why she is the star of the mental midget olympics," Cobb said, as Burnett choked back a laugh. "You know, it's such a silly question."

As Politico reported Friday, the DOJ wasn't asking Cannon to make the report publicly viewable. Rather, prosecutors were insisting that the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees simply be allowed to view the report at the DOJ, without any electronic devices or staff and must agree to not disclose any details of the report.

Cobb reminded Burnett that Cannon appeared to be willing to prevent the DOJ from "following its own internal regulations," as special counsel reports are typically shared with leaders of congressional committees so they can use them to guide future lawmaking.

"Congress has a compelling interest in terms of potentially legislating with regard to how to further protect classified documents and how and how to tighten up on classifications, if necessary, of the type that are at issue in the documents that Trump clearly took, clearly had in his possession, clearly showed other people." Cobb said.

Judge Cannon — who Trump appointed to the federal bench just months before he was voted out of office — oversaw Trump's classified documents case in the Southern District of Florida. After she dismissed the 37-count indictment last summer, Cobb opined on Burnett's show that "it was always her objective, frankly, to prevent this from going to trial."

Watch the video of Cobb's segment below, or by clicking this link.

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