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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is straying dangerously close to the old pro-Trump tactics that got her reprimanded by a higher court, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner told MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez on Friday evening. This comes as Cannon held the first part of a hearing on whether special counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed to run the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, a motion filed by former President Donald Trump’s team that, as far as Kirschner is concerned, any reasonable judge would have thrown out long ago. “Let’s talk about today,” said Menendez. “I am trying to squ…

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