Something ain’t right here….
The judge says the Intelligence Community CAN check the files for damage to American Nationalk Security …
But?
Trump’s lawyers are arguing the stuff ain’t ‘Classified and Secret’.?….
WTF?
This legal hope seems straight outta Trump’s mouth, Not the lawyers….
This IS essentially calling the Feds liars on the files, some which have ‘dissappeared’….
Trump’s lawyers ARE doing the lawyer 101 thing…
Slow things down…
Stall….
By the Way?
The judges move on the Special Master has been universally seen as a straight give away to Trump who appointed the judge….
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump asked a federal judge on Monday to deny the Justice Department’s request to immediately restart a key of part of its criminal investigation into his hoarding of sensitive government documents at his residence in Florida.
Renewing their request for an expansive independent review of records seized from Mr. Trump, the former president’s legal team argued that seized records marked as classified should remain off limits to the F.B.I. and prosecutors. They asked the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, to maintain her order barring agents from using any of the materials taken from his estate, Mar-a-Lago, until a so-called special master has vetted all of them.
The 21-page filing was an aggressive rebuke of the Justice Department’s broader inquiry into whether Mr. Trump or his aides illegally kept national security secrets at the property or obstructed the government’s repeated attempts to retrieve the materials. It played down the criminal inquiry as a “storage dispute” and insinuated that officials may have leaked information about the contents of the files….