Rep. Steube to Newsmax: 'Great Win' in Fla. Trump Case

Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., told Newsmax on Tuesday that the indefinite postponement of former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial in Florida is "a great win" for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's team.

"[It's a] distraction that obviously was the intention of the Democrats all along," Steube said during an appearance on Newsmax's "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE." "It wasn't necessarily to get a conviction; it was to keep him off the campaign trail, to spend millions upon millions of dollars having to defend himself in New York, in Georgia, and Florida, and all these other venues. It was a strategy, an election interference strategy, that the Democrats have employed and it's … nice that he's not going to have to deal with another one of these weaponizations of the federal government using this to interfere with the election in November."

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump in 2020, decided that the former president's trial in Florida on charges of illegally retaining classified documents after leaving office would be indefinitely postponed, which greatly reduces the odds that he will face a jury before the presidential election on Nov. 5.