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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon made a crucial error in her latest ruling that gave former President Donald Trump some extra favor even as she declined to grant his motion to dismiss the charges against him in the Mar-a-Lago classified document case, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman wrote in a scathing thread on X Wednesday. Cannon, a right-wing judge appointed by Trump, has come under fire for a series of controversial decisions seemingly calculated to give Trump extra advantages at trial, including dragging out pre-trial disputes to the point that the case won’t be held before the el…