Trump Loses It on ‘Lowlife’ Jack Smith for ‘Attacking’ the ‘Highly Respected’ Classified Docs Judge After Months of Launching Broadsides
Former President Donald Trump excoriated Special Counsel Jack Smith for “attacking” Judge Aileen Cannon in a recent filing despite having spent months launching broadsides at other judges overseeing his other criminal and civil cases.
“Deranged ‘Special’ Counsel Jack Smith, who has a long record of failure as a prosecutor, including a unanimous decision against him in the U.S. Supreme Court, should be sanctioned or censured for the way he is attacking a highly respected Judge, Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over his FAKE Documents Hoax case in Florida,” wrote Trump on Truth Social. “He is a lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to “play the ref.” He shouldn’t even be allowed to participate in this sham case, where I, unlike Crooked Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and all the rest, come under the Presidential Records Act. I DID NOTHING WRONG, BUT BIDEN DID, AND THEY LET HIM OFF SCOT-FREE. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN, JACK? A TWO TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”
In his brief, Smith suggested that an order from Cannon would “distort the trial” and was based on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise.” CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig opined on Wednesday that Smith “clearly has had it” with Cannon and suggested he could even resort to the “drastic” step of asking for her removal from the case.
Still, Smith’s sharp tone pales in comparison to some of the things Trump’s said about other judges.
Trump not only called Arthur Engoron, who presided over Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York, a “runaway judge” guilty of “causing grave damage to our Justice System, to New York State, and to the United States of America!” but attacked his wife and law clerk.
He’s derided Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the Stormy Daniels cover-up case in New York, and his daughter by name, characterizing the latter as a “Rabid Trump Hater.”
Judge Tanya Chutkan, meanwhile, has been described by Trump as “highly partisan.” The former President has also asserted that there is “NO WAY” he can get a “FAIR TRIAL” with her overseeing the federal case against him for his post-2020 election behavior.
