Ex-FBI official: Judge Cannon’s 'inexperience with classified information leading to delays'

Donald Trump and his lawyers have been determined to have the former president's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case thrown out altogether. Presiding Judge Aileen Cannon agreed to hold a hearing Thursday to hear the MAGA hopeful's motion to dismiss, but ultimately denied the request.

Cannon — who legal experts argue has shown favor towards Trump — wrote in her decision, "Although the Motion raises various arguments warranting serious consideration, the Court ultimately determines, following lengthy oral argument, that resolution of the overall question presented depends too greatly on contested instructional questions about still-fluctuating definitions of statutory terms/phrases as charged, along with at least some disputed factual issues as raised in the Motion."

However, a date for the former president's trial still has not been set following special counsel Jack Smith's request to begin in July, so that there's chance for a verdict prior to the November election. Trump and his attorneys have requested August 12 for the start date or some time after the election.

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MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace spoke with former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Peter Strzok on the latest episode of Deadline: White House about why he thinks there have been so many delays since Smith first charged the ex-president last June.

"At some point, Pete Strzok, this isn't about Aileen Cannon — this is about the rest of us," Wallace said. "Why are we still here?"

Strzok replied, "The fact of the matter is if this case had been brought in districts where classified information is routinely dealt with — in the District of Columbia, or the Eastern District of Virginia — this never would have had a hearing. In the course of my career, in many dozens of districts and several circuits, there's never been a successful challenge to constitutionality. These are, in fact, borderline, if not complete, frivolous arguments."

The former FBI agent continued, "I think, regardless of whatever Judge Cannon's personal motives are, I think absolutely one, her broad inexperience, but two, her specific inexperience with classified information, is leading to these delays. And what I'm reminded of as well, is frequently as an FBI agent, you go out and you an do a lot of interviews. But at some point, you've got to sit down and write those interviews up, and as you're running around talking to people, you're generating a huge administrative backlog. Well, she's doing the same thing, in many respects, her courtroom."

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Strzok emphasized, "We've had a lot of motions. We have several more coming up. And as we wait for rulings on these motions, because she's decided to have these hearings, that backlog, that sitting down and putting pen to paper, is growing and growing and growing. And there's absolutely no way, in my mind, that we see trial in Mar-a-Lago prior to the election."

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