Monica Lewinsky says Judge Cannon should be impeached

Author and activist Monica Lewinsky said Tuesday that the judge overseeing former President Trump’s confidential documents case should be impeached.

“I woke up angry about the Florida document case,” Lewinsky he said in a post on social platform [Aileen Cannon] is revoked. IF the documents had been declassified (which they weren’t), then all Trump had to do was photocopy them and return the originals that were being requested and explain that they were declassified (again, for those in the back, which wasn’t he was). ”

Cannon indefinitely postponed the confidential documents case and refused to set a trial date until she could approve pretrial motions.

“IF it had been an honest (ahem) mistake to take them…just return them – LIKE ANY OTHER PRESIDENT WHO HAS BEEN DISCOVERED TO HAVE CLASSIFIED MATERIALS IN HIS PRIVATE POSSESSION. (which would still warrant an investigation, but perhaps not result in a trial),” Lewinsky continued in her Tuesday post. “The danger and harm caused by this judge is mind-numbing,” Lewinsky added.

Cannon has faced growing criticism over her handling of the case, with some saying she is giving the former president too much deference. Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said this week that he is “putting the charge on trial.”

According to recent communicating per The New York Times, two judges tried to get Cannon to hand over the case documents when it was assigned to her a year ago. The requests came after Cannon’s initial handling of the former president’s challenge to a search warrant for her home, as the appointment of a special master was later suspended by a higher court.

Lewinsky, after gaining fame at the center of an independent lawyer’s investigation into former President Clinton in the 1990s, has become an anti-bullying activist in recent years.

Earlier this year, she became the face of Reformation’s “You’ve Got the Power” workwear campaign, a partnership with Vote.org to encourage voting.

And late last year, she wrote an op-ed calling for a series of constitutional changes, including age limits for elected officials and a ban on presidential self-pardons.

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