Former President Donald Trump once again found himself in U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s courtroom on Thursday for a hearing in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in Florida.
Cannon, a Trump appointee who was assigned last spring to oversee the former president’s prosecution on charges of mishandling classified documents, referred to Trump as “the defendant” during the hearing rather than “the president,” which his attorneys opted for, CNN’s Katelyn Polantz described.
“One thing in this case that is really interesting to watch is what people refer to Trump in the courtroom,” she said. “There’s not any interaction with him directly in a day like this where it’s about legal arguments. And so, Judge Cannon, throughout the day, was referring to him as ‘the defendant,’ whereas his own lawyers are referring to him
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