Judge Cannon Helping Trump Enablers Pretend 'Everything's Fine': Mary Trump
Mary Trump, the niece and outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, said on Saturday that the recently appointed special master in her uncle's legal case is only helping his supporters pretend things are fine.
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and published author, appeared on the Saturday edition of Slate's legal podcast, Amicus, alongside legal analyst Norm Ornstein. When pressed by the host, Dahlia Lithwick, about why her uncle is not yet in jail, she began to discuss the recent decision by Judge Aileen Cannon to allow Trump to appoint a special master to the case surrounding his possession of top secret government documents.
"We see in this most recent ruling by this hack of a judge, Aileen Cannon, by postponing what should've happened, she gives room for Donald enablers and supporters to act as if everything's fine," Mary Trump said. "If [Trump's legal troubles] were that bad, then nobody could have possibly made that ruling. Clearly, he must have some right to these documents."
On Monday, Cannon, a district judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, ruled that Trump could appoint a special master who will review the top-secret documents he took from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, and determine whether they should be protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege. Cannon's ruling also temporarily halted the Department of Justice (DOJ) from using the documents seized from the resort in August in its investigation into the former president's handling of the highly sensitive materials, pending the results of the special master's review.
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