All the assembled awoke on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention, and found that the MAGA Fairy had left them a nice little breakfast bonbon as the prolonged farce that was Judge Aileen Cannon’s time in the spotlight came to its utterly predictable—and utterly dismal—end down in Florida. Having spent months trying to pick among the many reasons, and all of them preposterous, to dismiss special counsel Jack Smith’s case against the former president* in the Pool Shed Papers case. She finally settled on one, and, yes, it was preposterous.
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