{"id":2199681,"date":"2024-03-15T09:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defendant-trump-was-comfortable-in-court-for-classified-documents-case-despite-judge-not-interacting-with-the-president\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:20:02","slug":"defendant-trump-was-comfortable-in-court-for-classified-documents-case-despite-judge-not-interacting-with-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defendant-trump-was-comfortable-in-court-for-classified-documents-case-despite-judge-not-interacting-with-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Defendant\u2019 Trump was comfortable in court for classified documents case despite judge not interacting with the \u2018president\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefendant-trump-was-comfortable-in-court-for-classified-documents-case-despite-judge-not-interacting-with-the-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2199681&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump once again found himself in U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon\u2019s courtroom on Thursday for a hearing in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Cannon, a Trump appointee who was assigned last spring to oversee the former president\u2019s prosecution on charges of mishandling classified documents, referred to Trump as \u201cthe defendant\u201d during the hearing rather than \u201cthe president,\u201d which his attorneys opted for, CNN\u2019s Katelyn Polantz described.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u201cOne thing in this case that is really interesting to watch is what people refer to Trump in the courtroom,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s not any interaction with him directly in a day like this where it\u2019s about legal arguments. And so, Judge Cannon, throughout the day, was referring to him as \u2018the defendant,\u2019 whereas his own lawyers are referring to him as \u2018the president.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> While showing a courtroom sketch of Trump alongside his lawyers in Fort Pierce, Florida, Polantz said Trump is increasingly comfortable sitting at the defense table, having already spent hours in Cannon\u2019s courtroom.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWell, take the glowering Donald Trump that you saw in the arraignments, that type of criminal defendant, and that posture of the former president \u2014 that\u2019s not what he is like now,\u201d Polantz said. \u201cHe\u2019s been in Judge Cannon\u2019s courtroom for hours at a time, and so you can tell that he is getting much more comfortable sitting there at the defense table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p> Producers and reporters inside the courtroom said Trump spent time talking to his attorney and had reactions, such as \u201clittle facial expressions,\u201d to a few of the arguments people were making.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> The federal judge denied one of Trump\u2019s two motions to dismiss the case on Thursday. His attorneys contended that the criminal charges under the Espionage Act were unconstitutionally vague. Trump\u2019s lawyers said the statute that criminalizes unauthorized retention of national defense information, which supports 32 of the 40 felony counts against the former president in the case, is overly vague.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump once again found himself in U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon\u2019s courtroom on Thursday for a hearing in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in Florida.\u00a0 Cannon, a Trump appointee who was assigned last spring to oversee the former president\u2019s prosecution on charges of mishandling classified documents, referred to Trump as \u201cthe defendant\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2667,"featured_media":2199682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24074497978625-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24074497978625-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}