So the Trump filing goes on and on about executive privileged documents and requests a special master review of those privileged docs. However, any document to which executive privilege applies must be a presidential record and belongs to the people of the United States and not to Trump.
This filing is literally a confession to violating the presidential records act. That’s some good lawyering.
At least it’s not Dewey Cheatham and Howe!
I’ve always perferred Boyd, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.
Trump had more than 300 classified documents according to the NY Times:
Don’t tease me like that. Trump handling the case pro se… there’s not enough popcorn on earth…
The best two-line commentary on this motion yet:
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1561885297259921408?t=6G6j1qekjO0qdLVMXgNKYw&s=19
Not trying to give Trump ideas, but if that was pay per view I might be tempted.
Two hours ago, Trump ally John Solomon published a heretofore unknown letter between the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and Trump.
Legal Twitter is all up in arms over this passage:
(emphasis mine, JT).
There is no weasling in the letter: the items weren’t Trump’s, national security was compromised just by Trump having these documents, and the archivist flatly rejected the same flimsy excuses bandied about today.
And according to the article’s sources, in late 2021 — before turning over the initial batch — he went through all of them with his own tiny hands. If true, would that pretty much shitcan any “inadvertent” or “unintentional” defense?
Sounds great, but I have trouble beleving that tanTrump read 700 pages. Ever.
Except, perhaps, as a teenager, those magazines you hold with one hand.
Bet he can’t read without moving his lips and sounding out the big words.
How many pages is the Big Book of Hitler’s Speeches? Supposedly CFSG’s bedtime reading.
Hopefully “Yosemite” isn’t one of them.
To be fair, he once put together a jigsaw puzzle in 3 hours even though the box said 2-4 years.
His lawsuit reads as though he insisted on including frivolous stuff like how he’s the favorite for the 2024 nomination and how the FBI has treated him “very unfairly”.
This looks like an open and shut case. He had documents that do not belong to him that could jeopardize national security. He was told they were not his to take with him but he still did. He was asked to return them and failed to do so. Sure they need to take fingerprints of every page to see how many grubby fingers have handled them. But damn this alone should put him in a federal pound me in the ass prison.
No, I think he reads the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He just never got to the Fall part of the book yet.
Two of the lawyers mentioned above, Trusty and Cocoran, filed a petition to represent their client in Federal Court.
Tragically, they filed this standard form incorrectly and have been instructed to do so again:
Long story short, until this is resolved, only 1 of Trump’s attorneys can appear in front of Federal Court to argue his case.
Who could’ve known lawyering would be so complicated?
Btw, look at this from the first page of that motion:
He officially declared himself as not a candidate. And he asserted he is still undecided about 2024. Thanks!
Moderating:
Let’s refrain from the prison rape jokes. Thanks.
No warning issued.
Thanks for your discretion and my apologies.