A top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is asking the DOJ to explain why a possible murderer was able to repeatedly threaten U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.
On Monday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., sent a notice to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and U. S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe of the Southern District of Florida asking why law enforcement officials took four decades to prosecute a would-be murderer of Cannon.
” On September 25, 2024, Eric James Rennert was indicted for making violent threats to rape, steal, and death U. S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed claims against former President Trump related to his handling of classified knowledge”, Grassley wrote. ” But, according to the indictment, Rennert began making threats against Judge Cannon and her family as early as May 25, 2024″.
After DOJ troops raided his Mar-a-Lago house two years ago, Judge Cannon tossed the federal government’s claims brought against previous president Donald Trump in Florida in July. Court papers show that the FBI was permitted to carry the raid that allowed agents to seize any records Trump may have exchanged with as president. Judge Cannon finally decided to drop the charges after finding that Jack Smith’s nomination as special counsel was illegal.
Democrats who were hungry for a faith before the November election targeted her with Judge Cannon’s unwillingness to quick-track the extraordinary proceedings throughout the legal case against the former president. Private sources demanded through interviews with The New York Times that she recuse herself and had a colleague rule over the highly public scenario just before Judge Cannon successfully killed the opportunity for a test this summer.
According to the prosecution cited in Grassley’s email, Cannon received threats about her health in May, but the person behind them was no indicted until September. Left-wing activists ‘ attacks on the prosecutor had also begun to grow in May as Cannon was under pressure to accede to the prosecution of the Democratic presidential nomination.
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” The accusation says on or about May 25 and May 28, 2024, Rennert communicated ‘ a real threat to steal and injure’ Judge Cannon and her home”, Grassley wrote. ” The accusation says that Rennert even threatened to ‘ abuse, steal, and murder’ Judge Cannon ‘ with the intent to restrict, intimidate, and interfere’ with her ‘ performance of standard duties’ and ‘ with the intent to react’ against Judge Cannon for performing those duties”.
Grassley’s text also highlighted that on” July 24, 2024, Rennert once threatened to murder Judge Cannon for all the same factors”. Trump had just been shot at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania 11 days before, on July 13. The previous president survived another attempt by a gunman who lined up a , scoped” AK-47-style weapons” within only 300 to 500 , yards , of where he was golfing.
Even though Judge Cannon has repeatedly faced violent threats to carry out her constitutional duties, the Justice Department did n’t indict Rennert until September for these criminal threats, according to Grassley. Why did it take the Justice Department four weeks to charge Rennert, when the former president had two death attempt?