Trump legal filing suggests all those top secret documents were just his personal records
Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday asked Judge Aileen Cannon to continue blocking the Justice Department from reviewing the classified documents the FBI recovered from Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s lawyers’ filing is predictably filled with errors of fact and logic and law, but Cannon, a Trump appointee, has already shown that she doesn’t really care about that—she’s going to rule as she wants, regardless of the facts of the matter.
Trump’s lawyers consistently downplay the gravity of the criminal investigation he faces, starting with this epic mischaracterization: “In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records.”
A “document storage dispute”? Sure, in the same way that it would be an “automobile storage debate” if someone declined to return a rental Mercedes.
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