But Trump has not abandoned his old strategy of slowing, distorting, and knotting the legal system, and throughout his life in business and politics has often succeeded in deferring or preventing accountability. I have.
Trump’s legal team effectively argued that they shouldn’t be shocked that Trump classified the documents at home.Trump was once president.
“Simply put, the idea that a president’s record would contain sensitive information should never have been alarming,” Filing said.
Trump’s approach quickly confuses Republican and conservative media supporters with new fodder, distorts the case against Trump, and accuses the DOJ and FBI of political motives.
But he didn’t address the core issues swirling around him in the document case. These include: Why did the former president want the document? Why would he store materials that could compromise national security and endanger U.S. agents abroad in an unsecured location at a resort he frequents?
Still, Trump’s Wednesday filings confirm his call to appoint an independent official, known as a special master, to figure out whether the FBI took legally privileged documents out of his home. Trump could throw a stick at the spokes of the investigation if the judges agreed with a broad definition of his role. He could potentially initiate a court challenge rooted in claims of legal and executive privilege. And he was able to challenge the Presidential Records Act through various exhaustive levels of the legal system. A hearing on Trump’s request is set for Thursday at 1 p.m. ET.
If he can push the investigation forward to 2023, and possibly beyond, it will clash with the presidential campaign and Trump as a politicized effort by the Biden administration to block his return to the White House. You can help picture this episode. I was able to irritate my political opponents again.
This is one of the reasons why the DOJ has urged judges to equip the special masters she appoints with very limited guidelines for their operation.
Special custody isn’t an unreasonable demand per se, according to legal experts, but what’s interesting here is that Trump waited two weeks to get the documents the government had obtained from Mar-a-Lago. is.
David Shane, who served as Trump’s attorney during the second impeachment trial, told CNN’s “New Day” on Thursday, “If the government’s claims are what they think they are, let’s be candid. Special. Let’s have a good master come.”
“But why not exhaust that process? Because part of this whole scenario has to convince the public that everything was broadcast completely and fairly and that all concerns were addressed. .”
How Trump keeps sabotaging his own defense
But at the same time, Wednesday’s filing also threatened to backfire, as Trump appeared to admit to the alleged violations — keeping classified information at home. Action may result in legal consequences. Much like the revelation by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riots, the longer the process drags on, the more disastrous it seems for Trump.
The former president succeeded in politicizing the investigation and united much of the Republican Party behind him, but his machinations so far have revealed increasingly terrible evidence of his own actions. was only
Meanwhile, the Justice Department, which always seems to betray Trump’s political and emotional defenses, usually fails to address substantive legal matters.
What’s amazing about this is that Americans would never have had this level of insight if it weren’t for Trump himself.
Conservative attorney George Conway told CNN’s Pamela Brown on Wednesday, “The Justice Department’s response was perfectly appropriate. The Trump people basically just asked to be punched in the face.” And I got punched in the face by that response,” Conway said.
State attorney Dave Aronberg of Palm Beach County, Florida, where Mar-a-Lago is located, agreed that President Trump’s special manager request would only make his position worse.
“This is yet another act of self-harm by Trump’s legal team. (Special Master Motion) opened the gates for the Justice Department to respond with a 36-page missile into the heart of Trump Tower,” said the Democrats. Aronberg told CNN’s “Situation Room.”
“You have this response that undermines Trump’s claim that his team was fully cooperative all along. In fact, it presents a case of sabotage.”
This wasn’t the first time Trump appeared to be sabotaging his position.
In early August, Attorney General Merrick Garland asked for the release of a search warrant showing classified documents were taken from his home three weeks ago. He made it clear that he had reason to believe that classified information was on his property.
Like many of Trump’s legal filings, Wednesday night’s documents not only ease his legal conundrum, but also incite a campaign of outrage at political audiences and against the Justice Department. It looked like it was designed to
Trump’s 2024 math is getting more complicated
In the aftermath of the FBI raid on Trump’s assets, Republicans want to focus on inflation, and Biden’s low approval ratings in the midterm elections are unwelcome.
It also raises questions about how legal pressure on him will affect the 2024 presidential election.
CNN’s Orr and Holmes reported that they had been eyeing Labor Day weekend for months as the planned launch date for the 2024 campaign, but have been spending the last few weeks away from that timeline.
According to nine former and current Trump aides and allies, the onslaught of political concerns — caused by the possibility that some of his handpicked candidates are not performing in the midterms — and his Rising legal concerns have made Trump nervous about jumping into the race prematurely, who requested anonymity to discuss internal matters.
An adviser to President Trump said, “Everyone acted on the assumption that the right after Labor Day would be the best time to launch, but that changed and he was told to deal with the FBI issue first. There are,” he said.
