Trump-Appointed Judge Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Ex-President on First Day of RNC
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As the Republican National Convention opened on Monday, Donald Trump scored a major legal victory when a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida dismissed the criminal case against the former president for illegally keeping classified national security documents after his presidency ended. Judge Aileen Cannon ruled Attorney General Merrick Garland had no power to appoint Jack Smith as a special counsel. Her ruling stunned many legal experts, and the Justice Department plans to appeal. This comes after the conservative-dominated Supreme Court recently granted Trump, and presidents more generally, almost complete immunity from prosecution for “official” actions taken in office. “This was an opinion in search of a result,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump for decades. “This is just deeply offensive, and I suspect it will be overturned, but the real result is there is no prospect that Donald Trump will be tried before the November elections.”
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Someone who says this is democracy now - same as when Biden says s no joke. Clearly, it is a clown show.
So what about the well-meaning old fool with a poor memory he was a senator and he was giving classified documents to his ghostwriter shouldn't he be prosecuted😮😂
What do you mean? Are you just repeating stuff you heard?
@@dirtabd when someone always says I am not lying, my bet is they have lied a lot. When Biden says he is not joking it is usually followed by questionable comments. When someone says it is all Democracy is at stake than you can bet fear mongreling will follow. There is no threat to Democracy. If you believe what you heard last time that yes fraud takes place in all elections, but not enough to add up to anything than democracy is not at stake. If abortion is such a huge issue why did Biden and Harris not do anything about it. Most Dems and moderates including Trump would take a middle of the road approach. Trump prefers at state level, but could have likely been pushed through.
@@dirtabd No. It's become a DNC mouth piece clown show. The guest is a BlueAnon clown.
@@dirtabd These Democracy Now people are a Bunch of Libs that spin and Lie... Where is the other sides point of view?...Not Allowed!
This man on here just said that.."Trump sold or tried to sell National Security Secrets"...Another Fkn Lie by these People!...That's all they do!
Lol these 🤡 show United States of America 🇺🇸 is a Constitution of Republic 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡.......
Of Republic or -tutionAL Republic? You just came here to say LOL and post clown emojis... But make it obvious that you don't know what you're talking about
@@jakevendrotti1496 🤡
@@jakevendrotti1496 obviously your not a American citizen and didn't get a education 👍💯😉
@@miecheleboedefeld6028I love it when stupid people try to argue a point. Please continue to entertain me.
Then jack smith should go after biden for having Classified Documents when he was a Senator
Nice try.
This guy is a bumbling idiot. Why do you have someone so one-sided on your program? Is it because you’re one-sided too?
@@user-de4ty9kg6o 😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣🤣🤣, what you don't think we won't WATCH🤣😂😅😂😂😂😂
@user-de4ty9kg6o Why Nice Try because the Law doesn't apply to everyone? 😂😂
@@maryschindewolf3239 well they had him and declined to pursue charges because his brain is oatmeal. At that point, the case against Trump should have been dropped. This was never about justice. This was always about ruining one man. Smith did this to the former governor of Virginia as well. Ruined the man's life only to have it thrown out by the SCOTUS. That is why he was.picked
Wow dumbocracy suddenly cares about who appointed a judge.
AMAZING, how all of a sudden, many of these Liberal Democrats woke the F up and actually started to notice these "JUDGEMENTS " being handed down by these judges. Just look at the location of the Judge and the Judgment, ALL in the same state. NOT like the BS judgements and INJUNCTIONS coming from judges thousands of miles away.
Trump appointed Aileen Cannon as a federal judge and she returned the favor by throwing out the legal investigation into Trump's storing of all those classified security documents at Mar-a-Lago and trying to avoid returning them to the National Archives. Call us any name you want, but many of us know that Trump's days of appointing Supreme Court Justices and other federal judges and his other ways of damaging the United States for his own benefit are coming to an end. (Unfortunately, many of the most corrupt judges will hold their positions for many years to come.)
Impartiality? Recusing oneself? Conflict of interest?
NAH!
American judicial system in a downward spiral. Sad for such a beauty democracy.
😂😂😂 Judge Cannon is the only one following the friggin law and constitution
That ruling will be overturned and hopefully it'll be the straw that finally gets Jack Smith a new judge. The appeals court in her district has ruled against Cannon at least twice on this case, and admonished her while they were doing it too. There's 50 years of case law backing up the fact that because AG's are approved by congress, they are then legally allowed to appoint a Special Council. She based her ruling on a foot note in an opinion about an unrelated case. Foot notes made by justices, who themselves have a vested interest in not being investigated for corruption by a SC, are not law.
@@shanemarines4580 lol where in the constitution? 😂😂😂
@@ArtGirl82yeah the case law shows that jack smith fabricated evidence and Jack went against the constitution. Maybe you should read the case law instead of just listening to the puppets. 3 times this administration has went against the constitution.
Cope and seethe Dems 😂
It’s not illegal for a POTUS to declassify documents
Trump did it by just THINKING about it. Trump moved a hurricane with just a Sharpie. What a guy! (What a crook!)
Yeah, as he “thunk it right out of think air” as an after thought. When the DOJ repeatedly asked for these documents be returned.
Then when Mar-blow-hole was searched for said documents it was signed off by his then so called Lawyer that all documents were returned. Only to find out after the fact that wasn’t so.
Unlike when Biden was asked by DOJ to return Classified documents in his position. Biden returned all the documents.
YOU CANNOT DECLASSIFY TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS.....WAKE UP.
@@alexthornton672 People who get their information about the world from Fox News NEVER wake up.
This is the whole TDS team. What’s is a bunch of garbage
With so much Video, Audio, Photographic and physical evidence that’s already been exposed but the case gets kicked out!!!!! What’s happening to our country?
Inform yourself. The evidence was tampered with. This case was political. It's failed. Get over it. We don't jail political opponents in this country.
You’ve clearly haven’t read the court docs have you?😅
poison fruit of the poisoned tree.
Quantity of evidence is not the same as the quality of evidence. He had in his possession assumed secret documents that he had the authority to declassify at any time with out a process to do so. They have to prove that he didn’t declassify it, which is very hard to do when it is presumptive that he did declassify the documents.
The Supreme Court has made this country's law a clown house.
the right wing of it - yes, for sure
@@kokohead333Cry about it. You dipshits tried removing Trump from the ballot for something he didn't even do.
Trump filled the court with as many clown as he could while he was President. They rule in his favor because they owe him a favor.
@@bobbybob3865 Funny how you insult the judges that Trump selected, but you don't insult the one judge Biden put in, despite the fact she doesn't even know what an actual woman is.
From start was a political theater
Only in your deranged and brainwashed head and because you believe lies are truths and truths are lies.
Liberal Cat Lady.
When was Jack Smith appointed with the "advice and consent of the Senate" as required by Art. II, §2, cl. 2 ?
🎯…notice how they talk around the facts . They never addressed the factual evidence , referenced in the explicitly articulated order🎉
No he wasn’t but neither were Robert Mueller or Robert Hur
Why y'all not talking about Biden and Obama like this. They had Doc
They cooperated in returning the docs. He hid them, moved them, bragged about them.
Hillary and Gen. Patreaus too.
@@baphnie hahaha. Cooperated...Hillary was never president. it was illegal for her.
@@baphnie Lmao!... So if Trump would have just given them the Boxes then everything would have been fine?... Umm, ya OK..lol.
@@marksman500 Yes. Many have spoken on this already.
Reminder: DJT sent Reality Winner to jail 5yrs for sharing classified information as a Whistleblower.
K...has nothing to do with this.
@@DM-sy4hg explain. 18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information. Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
@@abartholomaus what's to explain? Those docs were his. He was POTUS when he took them. The POTUS is the executive branch and has total authority over classification. Always has. That doesn't apply. Joe however...literally stole docs from a scif as Senator.
Reminder: Joe Biden stole classified documents while Vice President and stored them in his garage next to his Corvette, among other places.
@@abartholomaus Irrelevant. He was POTUS. As such, he had total authority over those docs. This was purely political. Ask yourselves, why wasn't Joe, Pence, Comey, etc. charged? But he was. Use your head.
Was the documents case the Democrats entire campaign strategy? Are they F-ing serious?
OK m R N.....HE IS A TRAITOR. HE SOLD OUT YOUR COUNTRY MEN UNDERCOVER, SO IDIOTS IN THE WORLD ARE NOT DOING TERRIOSM OR STEALING SECRTES FROM COUNTRIES.
Thanks @Democracy Now! for sharing this crucial video! The Supreme Court recently ruled on Trump v. United States. Here's a summary:
Former President Donald Trump faced indictment in August 2023 related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attacks. Trump argued immunity from prosecution for his actions as president and the requirement for Senate conviction post-impeachment for a former president. Despite initial trial scheduling by Judge Tanya Chutkan, the Supreme Court expedited the case after the D.C. Circuit upheld Chutkan's decision.
Definitions:
- Indicted: Formally accused of a crime by a grand jury.
- Immunity: Protection from legal action or prosecution.
- Conviction: A formal declaration of guilt by a court.
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This is nothing but a bunch of propaganda
Jack Smith Appeal is now "In". Judge Cannon is now "out"! Justice shall duly prevail.
you are hilarious and wrong ,judge aileen cannon wrote a beautiful 93 page report on facts and its laying on the supreme courts desk and this case is over
@@user-ut8ls7qp1j ~ She is a witless pariah! So sayeth the 11th District Appeals Court. Return, to that Cartoon Channel and deduce the concept of "attachment of legal jeopardy" to an open Case! _....oooops!_
@@user-ut8ls7qp1j 👎👎👎
@@jameswheeler-gr8wd lol!! you are hilarious !! your keyboard law degree has been revoked, judge aileen cannon beautiful 93 page report has been laid on the desk of the appellate court and they must answer and guess what the supreme court supports judge aillen cannons decision ,just read the 93 page report ,
@@user-ut8ls7qp1jYou are hilariously wrong and it doesn't matter what I think or what you think so I guess you can just wait and see the truth when it Happens in real-time... 😂😂😂 TDS
Right on brother!
This is a disaster, whete do we go from here, cos the way the supreme court is acting, they are ruling in a way that ,ake sure that those cases will end up on their table in the end,which we know how it will end.
Most important thing is to stop watching this channel, or you are wasting your life away. Just a troll helping you out. Pay it foward….
@@bretthousley5502 Protip: If you're a troll, don't give away the game.
@@Ahng_Noying9574 thanks. Rookie mistake.
I wouldn’t let this guy teach my kids about love!
Excellent!
i used to respect this program
Propaganda Now
LOVE watching these!!!!! Keep em coming
I'm sorry but the introduction was full of misdirection and spin. I guess I expected a true & honest explanation of the situation.
HRC and Biden got special treatment so that argument is bull
who is this bluff
Imagine that, a President can Declassified documents had a case thrown out for declassifying documents.
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The case never should have been brought
It will get reversed and trouble eventually end up in prison because he can't take the White House
@@davepark5878cope and cry harder 😢😅
@@davepark5878 Senator Biden/VP Biden belong in prison too then by your reasoning.
No law in this country now 😡
Haha sooo much winning 😂
jack sh..is gone
Mr Johnson apparently is writing another fiction novel about Trump
He's an INVESTIGATIVE reporter. That's the opposite of fiction, Jethro.
@@user-de4ty9kg6ofalse.
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I'm sure you don't mean to imply the judge was wrong in his decision since he was appointed by Republicans. Btw how many times have you mentioned the Democrat appointments in your reporting over the years, I'll guess NEVER! LOL
No need to imply.
Btw, they don't report about democrats doing this stuff because they don't.
Just keep that same energy if they asked if throughout Hunter Biden’s case on the same grounds
In her decision becsuse the judge is a female. She was appointed by mister Shitzhispantz and confirmed by the seante, not republiCONS.
Every court, even the supreme court, didn't decided the opposite of her several times until now.
You need to reference Vance as a former "public relations officer in the United States Marines." Referencing him simply as a "former Marine" gives him too much credit.
So JD Vance does not deserve Credit for coming from a Poor family and making it own his own all the way to the Whitehouse?
I wonder... did this channel refer to Judge Merchan as a "democrat-appointed judge" during the hush money case?
Yeap.
The entire world sent best wishes to Pres Trump rapid recovery The Election 2024 will be the biggest election in Century
Wrong, to ex or former president Trump because they are not delusional and brainwashed like you.
I love this man ❤
Breaking news. Judge reads the constitution
Everyone knows this law fair is bologna
Stop the lies you guys
Well duh 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Wal Mart would be the only business that could sell contaceptives. I was told when the supply backup happened that Wal Mart has its own ocean shipping fleet and port on the coast of California. Don't know if thats so.
Idiocracy now! You should change that to the channel name.
Well said!
I can't take partisan hacks like this seriously.
This show airs on NPR. This is your tax dollars at work here... There is no objective journalism any longer. That's why trust with the media is at an all time low.
Says the partisan hack.
Should have never been brought.
So it is OK for everybody to keep classified documents when they leave office? Or is it just OK for DJT to keep documents when he leaves office?
No but the president has total power to declassify anything he wants. Unlike Joe, who took papers, he had no power to have. Every president had done it.
@@chuckkirgan8561 I am not going to do the whataboutism with you. If Joe broke the law, then prosecute him (oh darn, cant prosecute a sitting a president. Thanks Trump!). If Trump had that power, then why didn't he declassify these documents? Or did he do that telepathically? See, there is a process for that, and it must be followed. That way, our government agencies know this is no longer classified information and can take appropriate actions - like, I don't know - changing the nuclear codes! Updating war plans, etc. There is a reason for this process. But not only did Trump not follow the process, he attempted to hide these documents, pretended he didn't have them, and tried to play the shell game so the government couldn't find them. That is obstruction, and that is very very illegal, especially if you are no longer president. That is what he was charged for - it isn't the crime that gets these guys, it is always the coverup. Joe came clean. Trump continues to lie. That's the difference.
And his book title on Trump is? What a waste of time …..
Enjoying your current background. It's very complementary and easy on the eyes.
the biggest bunch os BS I have ever heard!
If the left wants to expand the Supreme Court well than Judge Cannon is the next nominee
Only because you believe lies are truths and truths are lies.
The King keeps winning! MAGA!
The earbleeder is already a felon 😂
@@meatmobilecope lefty 😂
@@meatmobilegood one 😅
@@meatmobilecope and cry harder 😂
We don't have kings in America. What is wrong with you?
Sounds like a lawsuit coming on.
Every time I try to give PBS a chance, it proves itself to be as odious as ever.
this guy is lying , there are not statutes that say gardland can make an officer
by the way you are hot
🤔 You're not watching PBS 😐
What do you think you saw in this video? Do you know what you're watching?
Who would believe the nonsense pedalled by David Cay Johnston? He is so biased that his opinions are worthless - his ranting is nearly insane.
very ture
Wealthy Aussie admitted orange con showed and proposed price for those documents. Imagine courts allow this
Reporting you for literal misinformation.
@@Red-Check-Mark there is actual audio mate
@@masquarra Literally there isn't. Either way, it's dismissed...gone. Done for. Cry about it.
Democracy never; Constitutional Republic always.
I'm convinced people who point this out don't understand the concept of either.
excellent interview. Blessings David Cay Johnston very insightful
Ignoramus......😂😂😂
🤣 Sorry for your loss but have a nice day.
Alan Dershowitz and Turley and numerous other constitutional law professors concur with the judges decision.
He took them for one reason and one reason only, for Trump’s God Money.
Gas light much ?
The trolls are OUT on this channel. The truth is like holy water on a demon….buuurrrnnns. 😂
How many of these trolls do you suppose are just suckers, believing and repeating lies and propaganda because it feels good? And how many of these trolls are liars, who know that what they are repeating are lies, but do so because they want their side to win, and believe lying helps win votes for their side and discourages people who would vote for their opponents?
Lunch room lawyers here
Because it was a bullshit charge.
Nope.
Says the deranged and brainwashed head who believes lies are truths and truths are lies.
You guys are insane.
I call bullcrap on almost every word that you said and lied in our faces.
A great decision by a great judge.
Follow the money trail...
Poor saps
Bandage or tampax?! So weird!!!!
😢😢😢 Donald Trump is going to be our next President waaaaa
Trump dead in the water😅
You're calling this democracy now is the same as Democratic People's Republic of Korea calling them democratic! 😅
The word democracy is tainted
stop lying your way out Mr Trump are not going to get no were.
Poor Davey Cay is showing all the symptoms of stage 4 TDS.
Because he like true Americans don’t like people who share National secrets. 🇺🇸
😂😂😂😂😂
Will be back after Nov 4 to laugh some more..
David cay Johnson is a troll with a huge man crush on Trump. Get a life
Oh. Okay 👍🏼 So DAVID CAY JOHNSTON is an ELECTION DENIER..
Since AGs are political in nature I think that is a good idea for someone else to approve them. House Judiciary Committee perhaps.
They ARE approved; by congress! 50 years of case law states that because AG's are approved by congress as a whole, they then have the ability, by law, to appoint an Independent Special Council. Cannon's ruling will be overturned by the appeals court, just like her other rulings, because it's incompetent. She took a foot note, made by Clarence Thomas in an unrelated case ruling and applied it as if it was law, when it's not.
@@ArtGirl82 Trump still wins
@@ArtGirl82 yet neither HRC nor Biden were ever charged for the same thing. One cannot be realistically holier than thou if you don't apply the law evenly. That's the reason Trump's pole numbers went up after all the lawfare started. Most people saw it for what it was. Only partisan Democrats think it helps them despite all the evidence to the contrary.
No, she didn't. She took it from a former US AG who noted that Smith is illegally appointed.
The DOJ does not have the authority to use Special Counsels. States can, but federal is nowhere near the same thing.
This so called journalists is a fool.
This segment was filled with misleading information & blatantly false information/ statements.
Facts don’t care about your feelings.
Facts are facts. Evidence doesn’t change depending on your circumstances, perspective, or political viewpoint.😅
This guy bleeds TDS
Wow even you call him “ President “ he is not get it right he is a citizen or formal , i am out of this channel for her mistakes 👎🏼
Wow, what a looney toon this guy is !!!
Elon and Trump are the greatest men of this generation!.!
Conspiracy theories now !
This guy is lefty
He is not lefty, he is saying the truth,
@@Kiki-en9vmno such thing as a truthful lefty
@@Kiki-en9vmno such thing as a truthful lefty.
Academics 😂
What's your point? Do you have a counterargument to this man's talking points? You sound jealous.
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. ~Somebody you have never heard of said this
Instead of discussing this in political terms, as these two are doing, think about the simple truth -- there was no authority to appoint Smith. Thus, the dismissal was correct and will eventually be found so by the Sup Ct.
The law was followed when appointing Jack Smith, her analysis is flawed and will not stand.
About all i've heard from this numb .Skull is opinion. I didn't hear any bit of fact. Can you say left wing waco
Keep whining
Why does establishment keeps showing that stage photos.
That tampered with evidence is a major reason for the last delay .
You can't misrepresent evidence to the court and expect your case yo make it to trial 😂😂😂😂😂
FBI corrupt as usual against Trump.
Absolutly nonsense.
I see your using the tampered with pictures of boxes. Anything to make your nonsense believable.
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This channel is a joke. 😂
Opinions are like assholes everyone has one corruption has run rampant
Where do you get your propaganda funding?
Hsha raging liberals😂😂
I was a never Trumper until I learned better.
Biden needs to pardon his son today.