POL Jack Smith Issues Veiled Threat to Judge Cannon Over Her Jury Instructions in Trump Classified Docs Case

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BREAKING: Jack Smith Issues Veiled Threat to Judge Cannon Over Her Jury Instructions in Trump Classified Docs Case | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

Special Counsel Jack Smith issued a veiled threat to Judge Aileen Cannon in response to her jury instructions.

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BREAKING: Jack Smith Issues Veiled Threat to Judge Cannon Over Her Jury Instructions in Trump Classified Docs Case​

Special Counsel Jack Smith issued a veiled threat to Judge Aileen Cannon in response to her jury instructions.
Last month Judge Aileen Cannon issued a jury instruction order in Jack Smith’s classified documents case and the leftist legal analysts went apocalyptic.
Cannon gave two options for jury instructions.
The first option:

In a prosecution of a former president for allegedly retaining documents in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(e), a jury is permitted to examine a record retained by a former president in his/her personal possession at the end of his/her presidency and make a factual finding as to whether the government has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that it is personal or presidential using the definitions set forth in the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

The second option is:

A president has sole authority under the PRA to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency. Neither a court nor a jury is permitted to make or review such a categorization decision. Although there is no formal means in the PRA by which a president is to make that categorization, an outgoing president’s decision to exclude what he/she considers to be personal records from presidential records transmitted to the National Archives and Records Administration constitutes a president’s categorization of those records as personal under the PRA.

“Cannon seems inclined to push the case to trial but is basically asking if she can stack the deck so Trump wins,” CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen said.
MSNBC’s legal reporter Jordan Rubin responded with “Judge Aileen Cannon is at it again.”
Jordan Rubin said Cannon is “apparently contemplating instructions that could effectively win Trump’s case for him…”
A J6 defense attorney told investigative reporter Julie Kelly that if Cannon gives these jury instructions, Jack Smith is “f*cked.”
Jack Smith responded to Cannon’s jury instruction order with a veiled threat: Do things his way or he’s going to seek “mandamus” at the appellate court so they can tell her what to do with the jury instructions!

Reading Jack Smith's response on jury instructions and it's clear that the gloves are off btw DOJ and Judge Cannon.
One defense attorney just told me: "The tone Smith is taking with Cannon is no longer persuasion but outright threats. Unheard of dynamic btw DOJ and the bench."
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) April 3, 2024

Jack Smith is completely hysterical because he has virtually no control over Judge Cannon’s final jury instructions.

Jack Smith's response is hysterical (and not in a funny way in a desperate way) bc he knows he has little control over her decision related to final jury instructions.
And he is arguing the basis for Trump's "unauthorized possession" of national defense material rests on Obama… pic.twitter.com/uVr0qxy8ex
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) April 3, 2024

Now Jack Smith is threatening to take the jury instruction fight to the appellate court.
Via Julie Kelly: Smith demanded that Cannon rule now on jury instructions (she doesn’t have to) or dismiss the counts so he can appeal. If she doesn’t, he might seek “mandamus” at appellate court–asking 11th Circuit to tell Cannon what to do in the case.

This is why Smith is so angry–he knows if Cannon proceeds with the proposed scenario presented in her jury instructions order, he is, as one defense attorney told me at the time, f*cked.
He essentially demands that she rule now on jury instructions (she doesn't have to) or… pic.twitter.com/765SfIDygK
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) April 3, 2024

Jack Smith last year charged Trump with 31 counts under the Espionage Act related to presidential records lawfully stored at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump’s attorneys recently filed a flurry of motions to dismiss Jack Smith’s classified docs case.

 

[2dollarbill]

Maybe he will push too hard and she charges him with contempt or something similar. Keeping all 11 fingers crossed.

 

[bw]

Maybe he will push too hard and she charges him with contempt or something similar.

Won't happen.

 

[energy_wave]

Jack Smith is illegitimate.

 

[Housecarl]

Jack Smith is illegitimate.

And yet here we are.

 

[day late]

This man hasn't stepped over the line yet, but he's dancing all over it. I expect that in typical-woke-liberal-worst-than-a-spoiled-five-year-old fashion he's going to shoot himself in the foot when he doesn't get his way and starts to throw the pre-requisite temper tantrum.

Anybody got popcorn for this one?

 

[Squib]

I expect that in typical-woke-liberal-worst-than-a-spoiled-five-year-old fashion he's going to shoot himself in the foot when he doesn't get his way and starts to throw the pre-requisite temper tantrum.

Eh, maybe he could aim a little bit higher…say about 5’?

 

[Illini Warrior]

you can only laugh at a guy like Jack Smith - knows what he's pushing is all just garbage charges - no way in hell does any of it get thru appeals much less eventually SCOTUS scoped ...

then he gets all pissy when a judge or court refuses to embarrass themselves by agreeing with the Screw Trump no-justice agenda ....

 

[Kathy in FL]

Goodness, what a tantrum thrower. I hope his handlers either throw him under the bus or jerk a knot in his tail and explain he is going a step too far and making them look bad.

 

[day late]

Goodness, what a tantrum thrower. I hope his handlers either throw him under the bus or jerk a knot in his tail and explain he is going a step too far and making them look bad.

They will just let him self-destruct. THEN throw him under the bus. It gives them 'plausible deniability'.

 

[Wildweasel]

Jack Smith is illegitimate.

An ultimate win for Trump. "Dear Appeals Court Judges; under the requirements of statute 123-xyz the appointment of Jack Smith by Attorney General Merrittless Garland is invalid since it was never approved by Congress nor even submitted for approval to Congress by Merrittless Garland. Therefore he is an illegitimate special prosecutor and all his findings in this case are likewise, illegitimate."

"I further request that Jack Smith and Merrittless Garland be criminally charged and tried for Fraudulent Prosecution Under Color Of Law for this illegal prosecution, amounting to a persecution of Donald J. Trump over fictitious charges. In addition Mr Trump will be filing civil suit against the two named individuals for no less than $500 million."