George Conway said that if the judge in the case doesn’t give Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order on Donald Trump, the judge could be fired.
Trump is being charged in federal court in Florida for what Smith says was his willful retention of government papers and his attempt to make it impossible to get them back. In August 2022, the FBI searched his home at Mar-a-Lago with a search order and found a lot of information. Trump has said he is not guilty.
An email sent this week to raise money for Trump’s campaign said, “Biden’s DOJ was locked and loaded for deadly force at Mar-a-Lago.” The former president pointed to the word “lethal force” in the search warrant. Legal experts say that this is a normal instruction for police to follow in the very rare case that they are met with deadly force. On Friday night, Smith’s team asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to put Trump under a gag order so that he couldn’t criticize police officers who were working on the case.
Trump appointed Cannon to the job in 2020, but legal experts are unhappy with her decisions in the case. They say that her decision to push back a trial date forever shows that she is trying to get in the way of prosecutors before the election in November. Trump could end the documents case and his federal hearing in Washington, D.C., where Smith is charging him with trying to overturn his 2020 election loss if he wins the election.
“This really puts Judge Cannon on the spot,” Conway said on CNN’s “The Source” show on Friday. “This woman has shown from the start that she is biased against the government in a number of ways.” She’s taking too long to handle this case, and if she doesn’t fix it soon, I think the special counsel will use it as a chance to try to get the Eleventh Circuit to fire her.
Conway said the false claim of an attempted murder was “really an attempt to incite violence against government agents based on the complete, pathological lie and misreading and gross–just absolutely obscene misreading of a standard document that limits the use of force.”
In the end, he called Trump and people close to him “morally depraved.”
Smith could ask the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to take Cannon out of the case, which is a very strong move. Ty Cobb, a lawyer in Trump’s White House, said last month that the court of appeals will eventually get rid of Cannon from the case because she is “biased” against Trump.
