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<p>Uneventful, that’s how <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-indictment-former-president-arrives-at-miami-courthouse?ref=home?ref=home">the arraignment of an ex-president</a> went down in Miami Tuesday afternoon. And the second-most important person involved with the case wasn’t even there.</p>
<p>That would be <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-appointee-assigned-to-docs-case-report">Judge Aileen Cannon</a>, a Trump-appointee who has been controversial to say the least in some of her rulings in Trump’s favor. Yes, one of Trump’s “favorite judges” is currently assigned to preside over the trial, though she wasn’t <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-faces-the-most-extraordinary-ordinary-prosecution-ever?ref=home?ref=home">in the room during his arraignment Tuesday</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-special-prosecutor-jack-smith-has-a-history-of-indicting-presidents">Special counsel Jack Smith</a> was seated in the courtroom, three rows behind Trump, but Trump didn’t look around, so it’s unlikely they made eye contact. (Trump has called Smith “a deranged lunatic” and “a psycho.”)</p>
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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Wikimedia Commons
Uneventful, that’s how the arraignment of an ex-president went down in Miami Tuesday afternoon. And the second-most important person involved with the case wasn’t even there.
That would be Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointee who has been controversial to say the least in some of her rulings in Trump’s favor. Yes, one of Trump’s “favorite judges” is currently assigned to preside over the trial, though she wasn’t in the room during his arraignment Tuesday.
Special counsel Jack Smith was seated in the courtroom, three rows behind Trump, but Trump didn’t look around, so it’s unlikely they made eye contact. (Trump has called Smith “a deranged lunatic” and “a psycho.”)
