Judge overseeing Mar-a-Lago case cuts hearing short, admonishes special counsel prosecuting Trump

FORT PIERCE — A routine hearing in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump ended abruptly after a clipped exchange between the judge and a federal prosecutor Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon admonished the Justice Department's David Harbach for "wasting the court's time" with a last-minute legal argument.

Harbach had suggested that attorneys Stanley Woodward and John Irving should be precluded from participating fully in the defense of Trump's co-defendants, Waltine Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, because a number of the lawyers' current and former clients may be called to testify against them. -- More...

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