Trump praises judge who tossed Florida documents case
Trump called into the "Hugh Hewitt Show" and praised Alieen Cannon, the federal court judge who tossed Trump’s Florida classified documents case earlier this year.
“We had a brave, brilliant judge in Florida. She’s a brilliant judge, by the way. I don’t know her. I never spoke to her. Never spoke to her. But we had a brave and very brilliant judge,” he said.
Trump nominated Cannon to the bench in 2020.
His praise comes as ABC News reported that Cannon is a possible candidate for Trump’s attorney general should he win in November.
"But the fact is, we had, and the big case was that case, the documents case. You even said 'Oh, that’s the big case,'" Trump said.
Cannon is also appointed to the federal case against Ryan Routh, the man charged with trying to assassinate Trump at his Florida golf course in September.
Routh's attorneys have requested that the judge recuse herself from the case.
-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa, Kelsey Walsh and Soo Rin Kim