U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is a little perturbed that prosecutors tried to “secretly introduce grand jury evidence from another jurisdiction.” Grand Inquisitor Jack Smith isn’t above resorting to shady tactics in his single-minded devotion to persecuting rightful President Donald Trump.
Secret grand jury
The federal judge in Florida didn’t take kindly to a fast and sneaky move to introduce grand jury evidence from the District of Columbia. Mr. Smith wanted it done quietly, in secret and tried to shuffle it in “under seal.”
Judge Cannon “blasted” him for that as she denied his request.
The government witchsmeller didn’t have a legal leg to stand on and should have known better. The way Judge Cannon put it, there wasn’t “sufficient legal or factual basis to warrant” such Deep State “secrecy.”
Judge Aileen Cannon Blasts Jack Smith For Operating ‘Out-of-District’ Secret Grand Jury in Blistering Order via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/0NKnKRt0MT
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The clerk was ordered to rip the foreign grand jury nonsense right out of the docket. It wasn’t a total victory for team Trump, though.
Along with ripping Jack Smith a new one for his sneaky move, Cannon “also asked Trump’s legal team to respond to allegations from those grand jury proceedings.”
The issue is whether attorney Stanley Woodward, who represents Trump valet Waltine Nauta, has “conflicts of interest in the documents case, since three of his clients may be called to testify as government witnesses.”
Employee on his own
Even though he’s a paid minion of Trump and his organization, Nauta has been forced to find his own legal counsel. After scrambling to find anyone who could legally appear in court simply to enter his not guilty plea, Nauta has been beating the bushes for a trial attorney of his own.
Woodward may have conflicts which preclude him from going in front of a jury but, no matter who his clients are, there’s no conflict with his representation so far.
If the Special Persecutor manages to bring a case to trial, “potential witnesses include Mar-a-Lago IT director Yuscil Taveras and two others who worked in the Trump White House and followed the 45th president to Florida.” Grand Inquisitor Smith is using that to screw Trump’s valet out of the ability to mount a defense.
BREAKING: Judge Aileen Cannon just dealt a huge blow to Special Council Jack Smith, reportedly striking down two of his sealed fillings this morning.
Judge Cannon is AWESOME! pic.twitter.com/CxfaTCmCh8
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“All three of these witnesses may be witnesses for the Government at trial, raising the possibility that Mr. Woodward might be in the position of cross-examining past or current clients.” Smith isn’t real happy that an opponent has intimate knowledge of his witnesses, their job functions, and all the things which would help the defense, in front of a jury, more than the persecution.
Rather than make a final determination right away, since this is such a huge case, the judge gave both sides until August 17 to “address the legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the instant indicted matter in this district.”
Team Trump has until August 22 to “reply to Cannon and the defense team after having requested the post-indictment action, known as a Garcia hearing, to address the conflict-of-interest concerns.“
