It took U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon almost a year to do what many observers thought was inevitable: kill just about any chance of Donald Trump being put on trial, before the November election, for allegedly stealing classified national security documents and refusing to give them back.
Cannon, a Trump appointee who was selected last June to hear special counsel Jack Smith’s case against the former president, began her Tuesday by pushing back a key filing deadline for the defense team to lay out what classified information it would introduce at a trial. She then issued another ruling delaying a trial indefinitely.
