U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled Monday that she will delete a paragraph in the federal superseding indictment against Donald Trump that alleges he mishandled classified materials after he left the White House and thwarted officials' attempts to retrieve them.
The judge said that prosecutors' inclusion of paragraph 36 - which alleges Trump showed a classified document in September 2021 about a military operation to someone without a security clearance - is inappropriate because it is not connected to a specific crime that Trump is accused of committing.
The ruling does not have a substantive effect on the case. Cannon wrote in her ruling that if jurors take the indictment with them to deliberations, they would receive the edited version.
Cannon ruled that the indictment and its language is 'permitte'
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