Trump sees good news in classified documents case after judge's recent order - Washington Examiner

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Cannon so far has had orders overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit twice, once in December 2022 that would have meant Trump could challenge an FBI search warrant on Mar-a-Lago, and another order that month that would have allowed a special master to review documents the FBI seized and block the special counsel from accessing his own evidence.
38% : "Kel McClanahan, a national security lawyer who has represented members of the U.S. intelligence community, told Reuters that "both" competing scenarios favor Trump.
35% : Trump has been arguing for months in court that he treated the documents he kept at his Mar-a-Lago property as personal under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, which allows former presidents to keep records that have no connection to their official responsibilities.
35% : "Cannon's order asked the parties to draft language that requires jurors to consider "whether the government has proven beyond a reasonable doubt" that any records Trump was found to have kept at home were "personal or presidential.
32% : Smith is seeking to convince a jury that Trump was not allowed to retain the classified records in question after leaving the Oval Office in 2021 and that he then sought to obstruct a federal investigation and related efforts to retrieve those documents.
30% : EXAMINERIf Trump were to win the election before a trial concludes, he could order the Justice Department to drop the federal case against him.
27% : Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee to face off in November against President Joe Biden, has sought to delay the trial until after the election, while Smith has been determined to bring the trial before then.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON
22% : In all, Trump faces 40 felony charges in the classified documents case.
13% : The Florida-based federal judge presiding over the criminal classified documents case against Donald Trump threw special counsel Jack Smith a curveball last month in his prosecution of the former president, potentially giving a boost to Trump's defense.

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