Judge Asks Trump For Info On Declassified Docs, Lawyers Resist

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Trump's attorneys pushed back against Judge Raymond Dearie's apparent proposal that they submit “specific information regarding declassification” to him in the course of his review.

By Susie Madrak — September 20, 2022

Imagine being Trump's attorneys and having to clean up after all his conflicting claims -- like the one about declassified documents. Via NBC News:

Donald Trump’s attorneys said in a filing Monday night that they don’t want to disclose to a court-appointed special master which Mar-a-Lago documents they assert the former president may or may not have declassified.

In a four-page letter to the special master, Trump's attorneys pushed back against Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie's apparent proposal that they submit “specific information regarding declassification” to him in the course of his review.

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/09/judge-asks-trump-info-declassified-docs

SO either words put up or shut up....and because the traitor has no clothes he has stolen classified documents........lock him up.....

[Justice matters.]

1. We know it's Obstruction, delay, Obstruction, delay, Obstruction, delay... wash, rince, repeat.

To invoke anything, pertaining to the case or NOT, doesn't matter.

All the while our allies debate whether to keep sharing THEIR intel or simply stop (because they don't trust mango mussolini having access to it, either, again, now or after Jan. 2025).

[C_U_L8R]

2. Trump is digging himself into deeper trouble

At day one, he should have said, 'oops someone packed the wrong box' and returned everything he had. Now he's committing more crimes to cover up crime upon crime. If he's not careful, he'll dig his own grave.

[bluestarone]

3. 11th. circuit could end this TODAY!

And they KNOW it!

[Happy Hoosier]

4. Even if the 11th refuses the stay....

It seems like Trump's lawyer's response should pretty much lead the SM to conclude that the in the abscence of any other evidence, the materials marked classified ARE classified and not subject to any claim of personal ownership or privilege. If Trump refuses to assert these documents are unclassified, then they are classified.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Trump scored some Mar-a-Lago probe wins. The venue's now shifted.

This will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/19/trump-mar-a-lago-probe-00057621

Donald Trump put the Justice Department on its heels, courtesy of a single federal judge who gave him the benefit of almost every doubt as he fought against the FBI’s probe of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Now, his team of lawyers is preparing to test whether they can replicate their fortune in front of a potentially more skeptical audience. And the first indication, offered in a filing on Monday night, suggests a tougher road ahead.

The court-appointed “special master” reviewing documents the FBI seized during the Aug. 8 search has asked the former president to disclose details about any materials he claims to have declassified before calling them his property.

In a court filing Monday, Trump’s attorneys urged Raymond Dearie, the senior federal judge based in Brooklyn, to drop a component of his plan that includes asking Trump for those details. Disclosing those during the review, Trump’s attorneys said, was not a requirement of U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon’s order appointing Dearie as special master. And, they added, it could harm Trump’s defense against any forthcoming criminal charges.

“[T]he Special Master process will have forced the Plaintiff to fully and specifically disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment without such a requirement being evident in the District Court’s order,” the attorneys wrote.

Trump’s team’s comments came in response to a request from Dearie for a proposed agenda when he convenes the parties Tuesday for a preliminary conference in his Brooklyn courtroom. And it wasn’t their only gripe with Dearie’s “draft management plan” for the Mar-a-Lago review — which Trump himself demanded and for which his team picked Dearie as one of two acceptable options for the special master role......

Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, is among those who may be considered a witness in the matter. Having visited Mar-a-Lago on June 3, Corcoran assured investigators that all of the potentially classified material was stored in a basement storage room,facilitating the provision of a signed declaration that all materials sought by DOJ had been turned over.

Another Trump attorney, to whom Trump’s political action committee has set aside $3 million for services rendered, is Chris Kise. Federal records show that Kise briefly worked on behalf of an official with the Venezuelan government. Federal foreign agent registration forms show him among officials with the firm Foley & Lardner who agreed to represent Venezuela’s top prosecutor, Reinaldo Pedroza, in 2020.

The firm terminated its relationship with Pedroza just weeks after filing. DOJ has not publicly raised concerns about the prospect of Kise being privy to the sensitive material seized at Mar-a-Lago.

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6. Wado................thank you

[Emile]

7. Yep, time to lock the traitor up until his trial is over.

[louis-t]

8. That's it, piss off the special master on the first day.

Nice move.