Judge Raymond J. Dearie, the Special Master is on the Trump lawyers case about executive privilege claims….
He also has found the number of doucuments involved are thousand’s less than previously thought to be…
The judge also is annoyed that the Justice and Trump lawyers can’t settle on some the things involved…
Of course?
Trump is ALWAYS up for a deal…
Even if it bends the law….
The special master reviewing materials seized by the F.B.I. from former President Donald J. Trump’s compound in Florida expressed skepticism on Tuesday about early claims by Mr. Trump’s lawyers that certain documents were privileged and thus could be withheld from a Justice Department investigation.
In a phone conference, the special master, Judge Raymond J. Dearie of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, complained that the log of an initial batch of documents over which Mr. Trump is seeking to claim privilege lacked sufficient information to determine whether the arguments were valid.
Judge Dearie encouraged Mr. Trump’s lawyers to give him a better sense of why they believed the documents could be lawfully shielded from the Justice Department’s inquiry into whether Mr. Trump unlawfully kept classified records at his estate and obstructed the government’s repeated efforts to retrieve them.
“It’s a little perplexing as I go through the log,” Judge Dearie said. “What’s the expression — ‘Where’s the beef?’ I need some beef.”…
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The disputes about the small batch of records could foreshadow conflicts that might emerge as the rest of the materials come under review….
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It remains unclear whether the special master process will play out to its conclusion….