‘Defendant’ Trump was comfortable in court for classified documents case despite judge not interacting with the ‘president’ - Washington Examiner

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‘Defendant’ Trump was comfortable in court for classified documents case despite judge not interacting with the ‘president’ - Washington Examiner

Former President Donald Trump once again found himself in U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s courtroom on Thursday for a hearing in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in Florida.  Cannon, a Trump appointee who was assigned last spring to oversee the former president’s prosecution on charges of mishandling classified documents, referred to Trump as “the defendant” during the hearing rather than “the president,” which his attorneys opted fo…