‘Huge Victory’: CNN Reporter Says Trump Team Saw Docs Case as ‘Most Solid’ Against Him
Former President Donald Trump’s team was rejoicing Monday morning after the dismissal of the criminal case they viewed as “the most solid case against him,” reported CNN.
The stunning news broke around 10:00 am ET Monday morning that Judge Aileen Cannon had dismissed the classified documents case against Trump in a 93-page order finding that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Cannon’s ruling cites Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence from the recent Supreme Court immunity case multiple times.
CNN national reporter Kristen Holmes is in Milwaukee where the Republican National Convention kicks off this week and reported on the Trump campaign’s reaction, telling anchor Jim Acosta that they were — unsurprisingly — “celebrating.”
Holmes added that they were expecting a statement from the Trump team “any moment now.”
“But Jim, we really cannot stress how big of a big deal this is, how big of a deal this is for the former president and for his team,” Holmes continued. “There were many around Donald Trump who saw this case as the most solid case against him. Remember, there are recordings of Donald Trump saying that he knew he had classified documents. He wasn’t supposed to show them to anyone. He had — there was evidence piling up against him, and his team really believed that this was probably the most significant case against him. So this being dismissed is a huge deal.”
The Trump team’s “tactic all along,” said Holmes, has been “to delay, delay, delay with the hope that Donald Trump was to be elected in November and those federal cases against him — both this case and the January 6th case — could be dismissed by the former president once he was back in office.”
Holmes concluded by noting that the special’s counsel was widely expected to appeal “but this is a huge victory for the former president when it comes to his legal issues.”
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