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Civics 101

Why was the documents case against Donald Trump dismissed?

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

You may have been surprised (or maybe not) when judge Aileen Cannon abruptly dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. We dig into how and why that happened.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Christina, hello.

0:02.0

Hello, Hannah.

0:05.0

So we are here today to share a quick update with our listeners.

0:11.0

This is about a major case involving former President Donald Trump, which at least for now is not a case at all because it was dismissed by Judge Aline Cannon.

0:20.0

Breaking news on the classified documents case, Let's get right to Kandellanian.

0:24.6

Ken

0:25.4

Jose in a remarkable development Judge Aline Cannon in Florida has

0:29.6

dismissed, dismissed the indictment against Donald Trump in this classified documents case and his co-defendants

0:36.7

And I'm gonna get into that dismissal in just a moment but first this is Civics 101. I'm Hannah McCarthy. I'm Christina Phillips. Okay, so

0:44.0

Christina, can you please remind our listeners what was at stake here? What is

0:50.0

this case that we're talking about that basically doesn't exist right now?

0:53.7

So essentially really quickly what Trump has been charged with is holding on to willfully

0:58.6

documents he shouldn't have that had sensitive national security information in them, 31 counts of willful retention

1:06.9

of national defense information, as well as conspiracy to obstruct justice, corrupt

1:12.2

concealing of documents, scheming to conceal documents,

1:15.6

and making false statements all when the federal government tried to get those documents back.

1:21.6

And this case was brought by the special counsel Jack Smith on behalf of the

1:25.5

justice apartment. Okay that was actually great I feel like that was a really good

1:29.5

breakdown thank you and you know I did refer to it as something that was at stake, right?

1:35.1

So I'm talking about the case being dismissed.

1:37.2

It may well be at stake again soon.

1:39.8

I will get to that.

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