Donald Trump’s pending “classified documents” case was dismissed Monday morning. It’s good news for Trump, but it will also be the left’s first big test after a would-be assassin failed to take out the former president. Will they be able to heed their own calls for unity?
BREAKING: Judge Cannon has dismissed the Trump documents case, citing violation of appointments clause: pic.twitter.com/GPV9jXYAfZ
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 15, 2024
Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case citing an “appointments clause violation,” meaning the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional in the first place.
This is a major win for Trump. The classified documents case was the strongest of all the politically charged indictments against the former president, despite Hillary Clinton getting off scot-free on essentially the same charges. Perhaps more importantly, it neutralizes the left’s last best hope to take down Trump before the election.
In the wake of the failed assassination attempt, it will be interesting to see how the Democratic-media establishment reacts. As a Trump appointee, Judge Cannon has long drawn their ire with baseless speculation suggesting she would shirk her constitutional duties to help the president.
Left-wing commentators and politicians will be tempted to call Cannon a political pawn, an ultra-MAGA extremist who, in the news cycle haze of Trump’s assassination attempt, saw a chance to help her Fuhrer escape justice and gleefully took it.
But this goes against their newfound commitment to tone down the rhetoric. Sunday night, President Joe Biden made a rare Oval Office address calling for unity and denouncing the violence against his opponent. The same tone and substance have been widespread among elected Dems and commentators as well, no matter how extreme their rhetoric has been in the past.
Will they be able to maintain this posture now that their strongest lawfare strategy just fell apart? They likely won’t be able to resist demonizing Cannon, showing their calls for unity were nothing more than cynical, political opportunism. But if they can maintain the humanization of their opponents, then we may genuinely be able to say we’ve turned the page in America’s treacherous political divisions.
Only time will tell. Hope for the latter, but don’t hold your breath.
