Aileen Cannon Being Considered as Donald Trump's AG Sparks Fury: 'Insane'
By: Sean O'Driscoll (Newsweek)
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Donald Trump's inclusion of Aileen Cannon as a possible attorney general candidate is "insane", a former Watergate prosecutor has said in response to reports the former president is considering the judge for the job if he wins the presidency.
ABC News reported on Tuesday that Cannon's name appears on a document the network had reviewed titled 'Transition Planning: Legal Principles,' which "lists potential staffing for the White House counsel's office, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and U.S. attorneys' offices."
In July, Cannon, a Trump appointee, dismissed all federal charges against the former president in his classified documents case after ruling that the chief prosecutor, Jack Smith, was illegally appointed.
On X (formerly Twitter), on Tuesday, Jill Wine-Banks wrote that Trump's inclusion of Cannon is "insane."
Wine-Banks, a former prosecutor and former executive director of the American Bar Association, shared a post by political strategist, Lindy Li, who attacked Cannon's record in the Trump case.
"Judge Aileen Cannon delayed Trump's trial past the election and ran out the clock for him. She protected Trump every step of the way. She attacked Jack Smith and smeared his role as unconstitutional. Now Trump is considering making her Attorney General. Can you say QUID PRO QUO?!" Li wrote.
Attorney Tristan Snell wrote on X that if Trump is elected and appoints Cannon as attorney general, it should be "grounds for IMMEDIATE investigation" and asked if there is a "quid pro quo" in Trump's classified documents case.
Trump was 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 was also accused of obstructing efforts by federal authorities to retrieve them.
The Republican presidential nominee had pleaded not guilty and has said the case is part of a political witch hunt.
Newsweek sought email comment from Trump's attorney and Cannon's office on Wednesday.
In her dismissal of the charges on July 15, Cannon noted that there is no constitutional backing for appointing Smith, a "private citizen", as a Department of Justice prosecutor in charge of Trump's federal indictments.
Smith is now appealing that decision to a federal appellate court in Florida.
"The document was drafted by Trump's top advisers with input from Boris Epshteyn, who oversees Trump's legal team and is one of Trump's most trusted advisers," ABC reported.
"Cannon's name appears second after former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, according to the document reviewed by ABC News, which includes nearly a dozen potential candidates for attorney general," ABC reported.
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He does reward those who bend over backwards to be loyal to him, doesn't he. The SCotUS justices he appointed sure did their bit.
Except they vote against him all the time. All the lefties here were sure the justices would favor him in 2020 election cases. They didn't.
Just more half assed conspiracy theories from the left.
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I'm sure Cannon did more than bend over backwards. I wonder how much money to her and/or 'favors' from her were involved? [deleted][✘]
Like Clarence Thomas, she appears to have accepted very expensive "gifts" from right wing millionaires and billionaires. And promptly failed to disclose them.
Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket
She probably returned the favor to those 'donors' on her back and knees.
Which judges?
Just when they cannot find any way whatsoever to justify his actions.
He has every right just like Biden appointing the rejected Garland to become the most partisan piece of shit to ever be AG.
Amen to that.
You mean the same Garland that has chosen not to charge the right wing pedophile Matt Gaetz? That Garland?
Prove it
Prove Donald Trump is sane.
'the right wing pedophile Matt Gaetz'
Truth!
Where's the conviction? That's what I thought NONEXISTENT
Conviction not needed. Some on the liberal left just thinks he is so that is enough for them. And for the record, I think Gaetz is a scum bag who has zero business being in office.
The Partisian (according to Vic) Garland chose not to pursue the charges, despite Gaetz's wingman, Joel Greenberg, pleading guilty to it and been given prison time.
Let's take a trip down memory lane Mr Pot.
The same Garland that prosecuted Hunter Biden, That Garland?
LMAO
He hasn't been proven not sane, unless you have medical proof no one else does
Cannon barely has the experience to do the job she has now.
She got there by sleeping her way to the top I'm sure.
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[✘] Cannon graduated from Duke University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts. In college, she studied for a semester in Spain and wrote for Miami's Spanish language newspaper El Nuevo Herald; her writings included topics such as flamenco dancing, festivals, and yoga. Cannon then attended the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an articles editor for the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform and was a quarter-finalist in the school's moot court competition. She graduated in 2007 with a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, along with membership in the Order of the Coif.
From 2008 to 2009, Cannon served as a law clerk for Steven Colloton, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Iowa. From 2009 to 2012, she was an associate at the Washington, D.C., office of the corporate law firm Gibson Dunn. In one case in 2011, Cannon defended the former leader of the fixed income desk of Thomas Weisel Partners, before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority; the former leader was cleared of fraud in the case.
From 2013 to 2020, Cannon was an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida.[10] As a federal prosecutor, Cannon worked in the major crimes division, which included working on drug, firearm, and immigration cases, then moved to the appellate division, working on convictions and sentencings. In 2018, Cannon was part of the prosecution that won an appellate case involving Mutual Benefits Corporation's former lawyer Anthony Livoti Jr., reaffirming his 10-year sentence for fraud related to insurance investment. In 2019, Cannon was part of the prosecution that won an appellate case involving Scott W. Rothstein, which allowed prosecutors to withdraw support for reducing his 50-year sentence for a Ponzi scheme. As a prosecutor, Cannon helped secure convictions for 41 defendants, of which four convictions were from jury trials
Holder, Obama's self proclaimed wing man, set the standard that both parties are living down to. Cannon would just be another Garland.