Aileen Cannon Snaps at Jack Smith's Team in Court: 'No Hijacking'

Judge Aileen Cannon has strongly rejected prosecution claims that Donald Trump's legal team was trying to hijack a hearing.'There's no hijacking,' the judge said on Tuesday, adding that the hearing was about to end.Trump is facing 40 federal charges in Cannon's court over his alleged handling of sensitive materials seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, after leaving the White House in January 2021.

He has repeatedly accused the defense of delaying the case until after the 2024 presidential election, when Trump was seeking to have the case thrown out of court.Trump's lawyers had been arguing that the FBI's search warrant was invalid.Cannon appeared to agree with prosecutors that the search warrant was valid, based on past case law.Bove had been saying that the search warrant was invalid because it was not detailed enough.

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