The microscope that Trump-appointed Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon has been under has only grown hotter in recent months, as Cannon repeatedly appears to prove that her loyalty lies with the man who put her on the bench, and not with the law she is sworn to uphold.
Cannon has been the subject of intense, widespread, and deserved criticism from both legal experts and concerned American citizens, as she’s continually made decisions and rulings in the infamous Mar-a-Lago stolen documents case that have seemingly only served to benefit the former president and, more importantly, indefinitely delay the case from actually going to trial — something Donald Trump has been pushing for, in the hopes that his crimes don’t see the light of day in a courtroom before he can secure the presidency that will protect him from justice.
But now, new, secretly recorded video footage has gone public that seems to shed new light on just how deeply the corruption truly runs inside Trumpworld — with Aileen Cannon at the helm.
The bombshell secret recording from inside the walls of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort and post-White House personal residence was released to social media by Liberal journalist Lauren Windsor.
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In the undercover footage, Windsor managed to catch long-time Trump advisor Roger Stone revealing a plan to other Mar-a-Lago attendees for how the ex-president is going to re-take the White House via the help of judges who, regardless of the real results of the 2024 presidential election, are prepared to take action and Donald Trump’s behalf and do his bidding from the inside.
“At least this time when they do it, you have a lawyer and a judge — his home phone number standing by — so you can stop it,” Roger Stone can be heard explaining in the secret video recording. “We made no preparations last time, none … There are technical, legal steps that we have to take to try and have a more honest election. We’re not there yet, but there’s things that can be done.”
“We are beating them,” Stone is heard saying in the video. “I think the judge is on the verge of dismissing the charges against him in Florida.”
The footage was provided to Rolling Stone by Windsor, who says the recordings hail from a Catholic Prayer for Trump event at Mar-a-Lago on March 19th.
Former federal prosecutor and popular MSNBC legal analyst Joyce White Vance wrote of the development in her SubStack, noting, “To the extent Stone is insinuating something more sinister, that they have judges in their pocket, that’s entirely different, entirely wrong.”
“Perhaps he’s just making it up when he says Judge Cannon will soon dismiss the case against Donald Trump and that they have other judges available during the election,” Vance wrote. “But given his background and history, it would be foolish not to be concerned.”
New York Times reporters Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer weighed in on the matter, pointing back to previous reporting that revealed Cannon was approached by more experienced colleagues” who urged her to “pass up” the high-profile stolen documents case when it was assigned to her in June 2023.
“But Judge Cannon, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, wanted to keep the case and refused the judges’ entreaties,” Savage and Feuer report. “Her assignment drew attention because she has scant trial experience and had previously shown unusual favor to Mr. Trump by intervening in a way that helped him in the criminal investigation that led to his indictment, only to be reversed in a sharply critical rebuke by a conservative appeals court panel.”
“The extraordinary and previously undisclosed effort by Judge Cannon’s colleagues to persuade her to step aside adds another dimension to the increasing criticism of how she has gone on to handle the case.”
The New Republic’s Hafiz Rashid calls Cannon a staunch Trump loyalist, writing, “Stone’s words, if he is hinting at Cannon working with Trump, would seemingly be corroborated by a Thursday New York Times report revealing that the Trump-appointed judge was urged by senior federal judges to hand off Trump’s classified documents case to other judges with more experience, who didn’t have previous involvement interfering in the case, as Cannon had. Cecilia Altonaga, the chief U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Florida and Cannon’s superior, even reached out to Cannon and told her taking the case would be ‘bad optics.'”
Make no mistake… This should terrify you.
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