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Donald Trump’s legal team made an argument in the latest hearing in the former president’s criminal case involving Jan. 6 that one ex-prosecutor labeled “weird.” Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance spoke with those in the courtroom and read a transcript of the scheduling hearing, and concluded that Judge Tanya Chutkan’s handling of the case was “reassuring” compared to that of Judge Aileen Cannon in Trump’s criminal Espionage Act case, where Trump stood accused of unlawfully retaining classified documents from the White House. “After months of watching Judge Aileen Cannon botch a simple, str…

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