MIAMI — Before she became a federal judge — not just any judge, but the Donald Trump-appointed judge who slammed the brakes on the high-profile investigation into the former president’s stash of secret documents at Mar-a-Lago — Aileen Mercedes Cannon was for the blink of an eye a working journalist.
It was 20 years before Cannon, assigned to a court in Fort Pierce, Florida, elicited both ecstasy and fury, depending on how one views the former president.
During a span of three months, Cannon got over a dozen articles published by el Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language daily that is the sister publication of the Miami Herald.
