A Moment Of Clarity: Is the Law Being Flipped? How Judge Cannon is Reshaping the Trump Legal Battles
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
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Summary
A subpoena for James Comey has just hit the wires, but the details suggest the prosecution might be bluffing. Why is the Florida-based investigation specifically seeking documents rather than testimony? Michael Steele breaks down the legal chess match unfolding and the controversial role of Judge Aileen Cannon. Labeled as "dangerous" for her willingness to upend traditional court procedures, Cannon is accused of bending evidentiary practices to favor the White House's interests.
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| 0:00.0 | And now for a moment of clarity. |
| 0:05.0 | We now have MS now reporting, confirming that James Comey was subpoenaed as part of this controversial Florida-based investigation. |
| 0:15.0 | One of the details I find interesting, the subpoena sought documents, not his testimony. What kind of documents |
| 0:22.9 | related to government investigations would Comey even have? Ideally, none. Presumably, most, if not, |
| 0:31.0 | all of those documents would be classified. So one would imagine that he doesn't have any in his possession if he's following the law. |
| 0:39.8 | You know, that's a pretty standard subpoena that you try to get documents before you call |
| 0:43.4 | for somebody's testimony. But I also think that suggests that they don't really have the |
| 0:48.4 | goods on James Comey. If they did, they would have called him into testify right away. |
| 0:54.9 | Yes. |
| 0:56.2 | Did you have something for Tim? |
| 0:57.8 | I thought you had a follow for Tim. |
| 0:59.4 | I always have something for Tim, but you go ahead. |
| 1:02.2 | I did, yeah, I do. |
| 1:05.4 | And it's from the Atlantic. |
| 1:07.1 | And it involves Judge Eileen Cannon. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah, Eileen Cannon. |
| 1:13.7 | Cannon's involvement could change the trajectory of the president's retribution campaign. |
| 1:18.3 | Trump's efforts to prosecute perceived enemies have thus far rested on thin indictments brought before skeptical judges. |
| 1:25.8 | But Trump allies insist that there's much more to come. |
| 1:28.4 | This was from December of 2025. We are now in March of 26, and the good old judge has reared |
| 1:36.7 | her ugly head on top of this matter. How dangerous is this judge in promoting, you know, phony lawsuits and elevating conspiracy claims as Simone is laid out? |
| 1:53.3 | Well, I think she's dangerous, Michael, because she's already demonstrated in the classified documents case that she's willing to sort of turn normal court procedures on their head and normal evidentiary practices on their head in order to serve the White House's own interests and needs. |
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