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Judge Aileen Cannon, the jurist overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case over allegedly stashed confidential documents, showed that she’s either in the bag for the former president or that she’s too much of a novice on the bench to handle the momentous case, a former prosecutor said on Friday. Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, gave his thoughts on Cannon’s hearing from earlier Friday, where she fielded recommendations from both sides on potential trial dates in 2024. She didn’t settle on a date, but she did bring up a DOJ rule that she …

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