Author and activist Monica Lewinsky said Tuesday that the judge presiding over former President Trump’s classified documents case should be impeached.
“I was angry about the Florida papers,” Lewinsky said. Said In a post on social platform X, he said, “It’s strange that the case hasn’t gone to trial. [Aileen Cannon] “He should be impeached. If the documents had been declassified (they weren’t), all Trump had to do was copy them, return the originals they asked for, and explain that they were declassified (again, due to backroom dealings, they weren’t actually declassified).”
Cannon has postponed the classified documents case indefinitely and refused to set a trial date until pretrial proceedings are completed.
“If taking them was an honest (ahem) mistake, just give them back, as have other presidents who have been found to be in personal possession of classified materials (which would still have warranted an investigation, but may not have led to a trial),” Lewinsky continued in her Tuesday post. “The danger and damage caused by this judge is mind-boggling,” Lewinsky added.
Cannon has faced growing criticism over the way he has handled the case, with some saying he has shown too much deference to the former president, and former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele alleged this week that he is “trying to put the prosecution on trial.”
Recent report According to The New York Times, when the documents case was assigned to Judge Cannon a year ago, two judges tried to get her to take over the case. The requests came after Judge Cannon first handled a challenge to a search warrant for the former president’s home, and her appointment as a special master was later blocked by a higher court.
Lewinsky rose to prominence in the 1990s as a central figure in the independent counsel’s investigation into former President Clinton and has become an active anti-bullying activist in recent years.
Earlier this year, she became the face of Reformation’s “You’ve Got the Power” workwear campaign, which partnered with Vote.org to encourage voting.
And late last year, she penned an op-ed calling for a series of constitutional changes, including age limits for elected office and a ban on presidential self-pardons.
