A Trump-appointed Florida federal judge who previously selected a special master in the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago investigation might now oversee the criminal case brought against former President Donald Trump by special counsel Jack Smith.
Judge Aileen Cannon, a district court judge in Florida who gave Trump a temporary win when she appointed Judge Raymond Dearie to be the special master in the Mar-a-Lago saga in September, has been assigned to oversee the criminal case against Trump in southern Florida, according to multiple outlets. Dearie was picked by Cannon to be the short-lived special master after his name was put forward by Trump.
She said at the time that her ruling “shall not impede" the classification review and intelligence assessment being conducted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence related to the records seized in the FBI’s unprecedented August raid of Trump’s Florida resort home. Nevertheless, an ODNI spokesperson told the Washington Examiner in September it had “paused” the classification review following consultation with federal prosecutors.
"The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax," Trump posted on his Truth Social social media site Thursday evening, declaring,"I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!" Dearie suggested to the former president’s lawyers during a September hearing that Trump must provide evidence of declassification, or else the judge may have to assume the records seized by the FBI are indeed classified.
Trusty said that one charge related to 18 U.S.C. 793, part of the Espionage Act, which the FBI’s August search warrant said was related to “willful retention of national defense information.” Trump’s lawyers added: “Given the significance of this investigation, it must be conducted in a manner that gives the public confidence in its outcome. The Court should simply not allow the Government to cloak these proceedings from public view based on its unverified assertions. The Special Master — and the District Court — should not be inhibited from exercising the jurisdiction afforded to them.
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