BREAKING: Judge Aileen Cannon Dismisses Trump’s Classified Document Case

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, overseeing Trump’s classified documents case, has dismissed the charges against him.

In a 93-page order, Judge Cannon dismissed Trump’s case, which claimed he mishandled classified documents after leaving the White House.

Cannon granted Trump’s request to dismiss the indictment based on “the unlawful funding and appointment of special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the charges against the former president.”

The dismissal comes just days after Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump and several Trump supporters at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

HUGE NEWS: The Biden DOJ's classified documents case against Trump IS NOW DISMISSED.

Judge Cannon ruled the special counsel appointment was unconstitutional.

This was their "strongest" Trump case. pic.twitter.com/FPz04TGcNS

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 15, 2024

🚨 BREAKING: Judge Cannon had DISMISSED the Trump classified documents case pic.twitter.com/apjJII2L90

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 15, 2024

Here’s what CBS reported:

The federal judge overseeing the case alleging former President Donald Trump mishandled sensitive government documents after leaving the White House has dismissed the charges against him and his two codefendants.

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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said in a 93-page order that she has granted Trump’s bid to dismiss the indictment based on the unlawful funding and appointment of special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the charges against the former president.

The former president faced 40 charges stemming from his handling of documents marked classified after leaving office and allegedly obstructing the Justice Department’s investigation.

The dismissal of the case caps a stunning weekend for the former president, who was the target of an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Trump said a bullet grazed his ear while he was addressing the crowd of his supporters. The gunman, identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed by Secret Service.

Trump is poised to formally accept the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Milwaukee, which kicks off Monday.

HUGE NEWS: Judge Cannon just dismissed documents case based on unlawful appointment of Jack Smith. pic.twitter.com/L5vqz6BcRx

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) July 15, 2024

Per CNN:

Federal district judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump.

In a ruling Monday, Cannon said the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution.

“In the end, it seems the Executive’s growing comfort in appointing ‘regulatory’ special counsels in the more recent era has followed an ad hoc pattern with little judicial scrutiny,” Cannon wrote.

The earth-shattering ruling by Cannon, a judge Trump appointed in 2020, clears away one of the major legal challenges facing the former president, and comes on the first day of the Republican National Convention. Many legal experts had viewed the classified documents case as the strongest one of the four cases that were pending against the former president.

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