Former U.S. attorney Harry Litman on Monday described former President Donald Trump’s urging of “unity” after Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed his classified documents case as “nauseating.”
Trump said he hopes Cannon’s dismissal of the case is “the first step” toward “Uniting Our Nation” after the assassination attempt against him on Saturday. Litman on “Talking Feds with Harry Litman” called this “nauseating,” suggesting Trump is only pushing for unity due to the assassination attempt and the fact he appears to be beating President Joe Biden in the election. (RELATED: ‘I’m Supposed To Be Dead’: Donald Trump Reflects After ‘Very Surreal’ Brush With Death)
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“We came slowly to the conclusion, but it seems now an inescapable conclusion that a federal judge was in the tank for her patron. Some combination of, I guess, gratitude for the appointment, which came after the election, was the last batch of judges and maybe audition down payment for another one,” Litman said. “Sounds very crass, nasty, but I’m not going to mince words. There’s no other way, I think, to really account for her conduct.”
“If you take that view, notice the timing here. In order to be of maximal help, if you were just gaming this out with Trump and his most nasty kitchen cabinet, you’d say we want her to dismiss the case before the election because if she holds on to the case and dismisses it after, then the kind of rhetorical flourish that Trump can apply, as he has already, this is the first step in what should be a dismissal of all of these,” he added. “And he’s couched it, of course, in this nauseating call for unity, which is the rhetorical stance he seems to want to take in the upcoming Republican convention and in the wake of the shooting. And in the apparent conclusion of his own circle that he is ahead, so he can therefore not try to be fighting, but calling for unity.”
Litman is part of a collective of anti-Trump legal pundits who have been discretely meeting weekly on Zoom to discuss key talking points before their appearances on corporate media outlets to talk about the former president’s court battles, Politico reported in April.
Cannon on Monday agreed to dismiss the case based on the former president’s defense’s assertion that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed, writing that it violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
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