Federal Judge Tells Trump Prosecutor to ‘Calm Down’ in Heated Exchange

It came after a co-defendant’s lawyer claimed that he was pressured by the Justice Department over a judgeship recommendation.

This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (Department of Justice via AP) Jack Phillips)

An attorney for a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case claimed that a top Department of Justice (DOJ) official attempted to pressure him “to cooperate” or potentially lose a recommendation to become a judge, prompting a DOJ prosecutor to call his claims a “fantasy.”

The incident prompted the federal judge in the case, Judge Aileen Cannon, to tell the prosecutor to “calm down.”