Judge, Appointed By Trump, Rejects His Bid To Have Charges Dismissed In Classified Documents Case

A federal judge on Thursday rejected former president Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss charges that he mishandled classified documents after leaving the White House.

The Republican presidential candidate had claimed, in seeking to have the charges thrown out, that he had a right to keep the documents under the Presidential Records Act.

District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, denied Trump’s motion, but left open the possibility the issue could be raised again at trial.