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For weeks, former president Donald Trump has benefited from the orders of a judge who has proved conspicuously incurious about his public claims that he declassified the documents labeled confidential, secret or top-secret seized from his residence at Mar-a-Lago last month. Trump’s legal team refused to vouch for that claim, but it wasn’t pressed on the issue.
The special master in the case, Raymond J. Dearie, served notice in a Tuesday hearing that he will likely require Trump’s legal team to actually address the declassification claims.
At one point, he said that if Trump’s lawyers didn’t directly dispute the government’s argument that the documents are classified, “As far as I’m concerned, that’s the end of it.” When Trump lawyer Jim Trusty argued the legal team shouldn’t have to weigh in on that yet, Dearie responded, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
Read more here. Apparently, Trump wasn’t aware that merely waving his hand over boxes of documents and muttering some incoherent mumbo jumbo doesn’t actually constitute “declassifying” documents.
TO RECAP: Trump demanded a special master and won. He asked for Raymond Dearie and won. Now his legal team is upset that Dearie is asking for evidence of what he claims to have declassified and is setting aggressive deadlines.https://t.co/RsOsYCoQBu
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 19, 2022
Special Master to Trump lawyers: “If the government gives me prima facia evidence that they are classified documents, and you don’t advance any claim of declassification, I’m left with a prima facia case of classified documents, and as far as I’m concerned, that’s the end of it,”
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) September 20, 2022
So, he wanted a special master, but now he is saying if he complies with the special master’s request he could incriminate himself and get indicted. Another genius legal move by the master strategist Donald J. Trump. And he can’t fire the special master like a cabinet member!
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 19, 2022
TRUMP: RELEASE THE WARRANT DoJ: Okay TRUMP: NO WAIT ——————————- TRUMP: GIVE ME A SPECIAL MASTER SPECIAL MASTER: Okay I’m here. I need some things TRUMP: NO WAIT
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) September 20, 2022
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