MSNBC’s Morning Joe appeared disappointed but resigned over federal Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision on Tuesday to indefinitely delay former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial. Then Joe Scarborough laced into Cannon for her “bizarre” choice.
The discussion included MSNBC contributor Lisa Rubin saying she “continue[d] to be disappointed by Aileen Cannon and her execution of the role of federal jurist here,” which co-host Mika Brzezinski followed up by citing the “basic” decisions on which she still hasn’t ruled. Brzezinksi also noted:
What you don’t see here on this broadcast is conspiracy theories. “Oh,” that “Trump is pulling the strings” based on no facts. You don’t see here hair on fire. This is the way it went. And because of, as you pointed out, the justice system, it’s not perfect, but this is the judge we got.
And Scarborough echoed those remarks before he effectively read Cannon the riot act:
You look at what the 11th Circuit said, the most conservative circuit in America. They excoriated her for an earlier ruling, excoriated her on appeal. Just, just, just absolutely humiliating her. It’s one of the reasons I thought that she would be a bit more careful, a bit more circumspect, play more down the center, play more by the rules, than she has. But she has not. I mean, you you look
at what she’s talking about regarding jury instructions. It’s crazy. It’s crazy. A 12-year-old that went with her mother to “Take a Kid to Court Day,” as a lawyer or something would have come up with a better ruling that than she’s come up with. It’s bizarre. And I am sure that if that’s appealed, and now that there’s time, the 11th Circuit will excoriate her again. I guess she’s either ill-equipped, extraordinarily ill-equipped, or she just doesn’t care what the world thinks of her. She’s right now looking like, everything she’s doing, she’s doing to help Donald Trump.
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