The tense interactions between judge Aileen Cannon and special counsel prosecutors in Donald Trump’s case over retaining classified documents came to a head this week when she again reprimanded one of the lead prosecutors on Monday for his tone.
We have reported for months about Cannon’s hostility to special-counsel prosecutors, but the recent stretch of hearings has also made clear how often they also shoot themselves in the foot.
Cannon is perhaps one of the easier judges to read at hearings, because she tends to ask questions only when she is skeptical of a position being advanced, whether by Trump’s lawyers or by prosecutors.
But David Harbach, one of the lead special-counsel prosecutors, has either found it difficult to read Cannon through his increasing frustration with the documents case, has become more interested in snapping at Cannon, or does not realize when he engages in self-sabotage.
The fraught nature of their relationship does not appear to have led Cannon to make rulings to punish his demeanor. But the testy relationship has the potential to become a larger problem for the special counsel’s team as the case proceeds.
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