Trump Rips Jack Smith for ‘Attacking’ Fla. Judge

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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 shouldn’t even be allowed to participate in this sham case, where I, unlike Crooked Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and all the rest, come under the Presidential Records Act. I DID NOTHING WRONG, BUT BIDEN DID, AND THEY LET HIM OFF SCOT-FREE. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN, JACK? A TWO TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”

In a filing Tuesday, Smith argued that accepting Trump’s theory would “distort the trial” and urged Cannon to keep a presidential recordkeeping law (PRA) out of instructions that would be provided to the jury in the classified documents case.

“The PRA’s distinction between personal and presidential records has no bearing on whether a former President’s possession of documents containing national defense information is authorized under the Espionage Act, and the PRA should play no role in the jury instructions,” prosecutors wrote.

“Indeed, based on the current record, the PRA should not play any role at trial at all.

“It would be pure fiction to suggest that highly classified documents created by members of the intelligence community and military and presented to the President of the United States during his term in office were ‘purely private,’” prosecutors added.

Smith last year charged Trump in a 40-count indictment for mishandling top secret documents at his Florida estate.