Trump judge documents case reprimands Jack Smith's team prosecutor

The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's Florida classified documents case told a prosecutor on special counsel Jack Smith's team Wednesday to “calm down,” according to Politico.

Judge Aileen Cannon reprimanded prosecutor David Harbach after he expressed frustration in response to a question about whether prosecutors withheld evidence of an August 2022 meeting with defense attorney Stanley Woodward, who is part of the his client's offer to dismiss the charge based on “selective and vindictive.” processing”, seconds to the politician Woodward's client, Trump aide Walt Nauta, was accused last year alongside the former president.

“I'm going to have to ask you to calm down,” Cannon told Harbach at one point, according to Politico.

Woodward claimed in court filings that a member of Smith's team pressured him during the 2022 meeting, suggesting he wouldn't get the federal judgeship he was being considered for if Nauta didn't cooperate.

Spent most of the day at Ft. Pierce federal court to cover two hearings in a classified documents case.

The special counsel team's frustration with Judge Aileen Cannon is truly evident.

And it is glorious.

David Harbach, one of Smith's lead prosecutors and usually a great client at…

—Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) May 22, 2024

Harbach called Woodward's argument “rubbish.” seconds on ABC News.

“Mr. Woodward's story of what happened at that meeting is a fantasy; it didn't happen,” Harbach said, according to the outlet. Harbach argued that comments Woodward claimed prosecutors made were “taken out of context,” the outlet reported.

Woodward argued that others moved boxes to Mar-a-Lago but were not being prosecuted, according to ABC News.

cannon indefinitely postponed Trump's trial date in Florida in early May, throwing off the originally planned start date for this month. He wrote that setting a court date at this point would be “reckless and inconsistent with the Court's duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending prior motions.”

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