Former President Donald Trump on Thursday ripped special counsel Jack Smith for “attacking” U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon after Smith aired frustration with Cannon’s embrace of a “fundamentally flawed legal premise” from Trump that the classified documents recovered from his Florida home were his personal property.
Cannon is overseeing Trump’s prosecution on charges of mishandling classified documents.
“Deranged ‘Special’ Counsel Jack Smith, who has a long record of failure as a prosecutor, including a unanimous decision against him in the U.S. Supreme Court, should be sanctioned or censured for the way he is attacking a highly respected Judge, Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over his FAKE Documents Hoax case in Florida,” wrote Trump on Truth Social.
“He is a lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to ‘play the ref.’ He…