MIAMI – The judge who will notify former President Donald Trump on Tuesday of the charges against him for handling classified documents after leaving the White House denied a media group’s request to allow photos and videos to be taken inside the court.
Judge Jonathan Goodman, who according to the media worked as a reporter before studying law and starting a judicial career, said “no” to making an exception to the ban on taking photos and videos in Miami federal courts because of interest and importance of the audience this Tuesday.
The “media coalition” requested that a “limited amount” of photos and videos be allowed inside the building at least before the hearing and that the court provide audio recordings of Trump’s appearance and future hearings in the case.
The coalition that made the petition is made up of media such as Reuters, AP, Bloomberg, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NBC Universal, CBS, NPR, ABC, CNN, Dow Jones & Company, Telenundo, Univision, Bloomberg and Politico, among others.
The judge justified his decision to deny both things in that he will not be the main judge in the case, a responsibility that has fallen on the judge of Colombian origin Aileen Cannon, and, therefore, “it is not appropriate” for him to take that type of decision. decisions.
But in addition, Goodman, who is the magistrate on duty in the court in charge of the case, says that he is not “convinced” that the hearing is a “special procedure” as the media coalition says to request the exception.
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The procedures “are certainly special in the sense that they are genuinely historical and of great importance, but they are in no way similar to a naturalization procedure (the exception provided for in the rule invoked by the press),” he stresses.
Regarding the immediate release of the audio, he said that the event will be public, but since there will not be enough space for all the people, including journalists, who want to be there, a live video transmission will be made in an additional room.
In addition, he announced, he has coordinated with the court reporter to provide a transcript of what was said at the hearing as soon as possible this Tuesday.
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Goodman notes that media outlets signing the petition should reapply to Judge Cannon for future hearings in the case.
Cannon, precisely named by Trump, received criticism for her handling of the case in the initial phase, specifically for having approved a request by the former president’s lawyers for a special expert to review the official documents found in Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s house in Palm Beach (in Florida), among which there were a hundred that were classified.
The Department of Justice won an appeal against that decision, so the special expert had to leave his task before completing it.
Trump, who faces 37 charges for handling the classified documents, including some for jailable offences, is the first US president or former president to be indicted in federal court.
This same year he was accused of crimes related to payments to a “porn” actress to supposedly buy his silence, but it was in a court of the district of Manhattan (New York), not in a federal one.
President from 2017 to 2021 and currently a candidate for the Republican primaries with a view to the 2024 presidential elections, Trump arrived in Miami this Monday from New Jersey and spent the night at a hotel he owns in Doral, also in Miami County. -Dade.
