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Nov 22, 2024 | 
wptv.com | Kristen Holmes |Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer
Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general on Thursday, said Friday he will not be returning to Congress next year. "I'm still going to be in the fight, but it's going to be from a new perch. I do not intend to join the 119th Congress," he told Charlie Kirk in an interview.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
wptv.com | Eric Tucker |Curt Anderson
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A man who authorities say staked out Donald Trump for 12 hours on his golf course in Palm Beach County and wrote of his desire to kill him was indicted Tuesday on charges that he attempted to assassinate a major presidential candidate. Ryan Wesley Routh had been initially charged with two federal firearms offenses.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
wptv.com | Rebecca Santana |Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer |Michael Biesecker
WASHINGTON — Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement hampered the Secret Service's performance ahead of a July assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, according to a new report that lays out a litany of missed opportunities to stop a gunman who opened fire from an unsecured roof.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
wptv.com | Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer |Jon Shainman
WASHINGTON — As expected, special counsel Jack Smith appealed Monday's dismissal of the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. The appeal was filed Wednesday in the Southern District of Florida. It's expected to tee up a court fight that might reach the U.S. Supreme Court and could result in the reinstatement of the indictment and even conceivably the reassignment of the case to a different judge.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
wptv.com | Terry Spencer |Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against Donald Trump refused Saturday to throw out charges against a co-defendant of the former president. Lawyers for Walt Nauta, Trump's personal valet, had asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to dismiss the indictment against their client.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
wptv.com | Eric Tucker |Hannah S. Rabinowitz
WASHINGTON — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case of former president Donald Trump granted a defense request for a hearing on whether prosecutors improperly breached attorney-client privilege when they obtained crucial evidence from of his ex-lawyers.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
wptv.com | Hannah S. Rabinowitz |Alex Miller |Briana Koeneman |Eric Tucker
(CNN) —Two federal judges in South Florida urged District Judge Aileen Cannon to forgo overseeing the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump when she was first assigned the classified documents case in 2023, according to a report from The New York Times. The judges, one of whom was the district’s chief judge Cecilia M.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
wptv.com | Eric Tucker |Adriana Gomez Licon |Holmes Lybrand |Tierney Sneed
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump is hearing arguments Friday on a long-shot defense effort to get the indictment thrown out based on the claim that the prosecutor who brought the charges was illegally appointed.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
wptv.com | Eric Tucker
NEW YORK — The federal judge in Fort Pierce presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump granted a request by prosecutors on Tuesday aimed at protecting the identities of potential government witnesses. But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon refused to categorically block witness statements from being disclosed, saying there was no basis for such a "sweeping" and "blanket" restriction on their inclusion in pretrial motions.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
wptv.com | Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors chided the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida, warning her off potential jury instructions that they said rest on a "fundamentally flawed legal premise."In an unusual order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce had asked prosecutors and defense lawyers to formulate proposed jury instructions for most of the charges even though it remains unclear when the case might reach trial.
