We still don’t know exactly how the selection of Judge Cannon was made. There are only a few federal judges in the area, so it could have been happenstance, but I doubt that very much. Something smells very rotten. Federal prosecutors will probably have to ask her to recuse herself, and if she refuses and is not forced out by other top judges, her power in the trial will be immense, even if she only is the initial procedural judge. She is a clown who in the past has been outrageously pro-Trump, and she’s been repudiated and had her decisions overthrown by panels of very Conservative judges. I just heard that among other things, if she is actually assigned to the trial she could easily make up reasons to delay proceedings until after the election, by which time Trump — if re-elected — could simply effectively pardon himself.
Meanwhile, of course, two more of Trump’s top attorneys just withdrew from the case after the extent of the charges was made public this morning. Not a good sign for Trump.