Well, the big news obviously from yesterday is the fact that the, uh, Trump appointed
judge, judge Alene cannon cited with the former president and agreed to have a special master
go through all of the documents obtained from Mar Lago to make sure there's nothing privileged
in there that the government should not be looking at.
So here's the thing yesterday.
Obviously, a lot of people on the left, absolutely losing their minds over this ruling.
And I'm not losing my mind.
Maybe it's just because I'm so over outraged from everything for the last six years, maybe
I'm just tired.
Maybe I don't have the energy to be outraged about everything happening with Donald Trump
anymore.
But let me go ahead and lay this out for you.
The part you should be outraged about first and foremost, not the ruling itself, but the
fact that this judge even issued that ruling, this judge had admitted previously when they
first filed the request for a special master asking them like, why do I even have jurisdiction
over this?
You already had a magistrate judge.
Why are you coming to me?
This isn't even where I practice, but she decided ask, screw it.
I'm gonna do it anyway.
Uh, so it should not have gone to her.
They went forum shopping is what it's called to find a Trump appointed judge, who they
thought would be friendly to him and give them the outcome that they wanted, which is
exactly what happened.
So first and foremost case never should have gone to her.
Second of all, if it did, she should have recused.
She knew exactly what they were doing.
Their legal arguments were totally bogus.
So in her ruling yesterday, she actually had to make points that they didn't even make
in their filings.
Uh, Asha rag, NPA pointed that out on social media, the judge went through and spelled
out legally why they had to do this.
Whereas Donald Trump and his legal team didn't do it.
So she shouldn't have been allowed to do that either.
If the legal argument is not made to you, you don't get to make it for one of the sides
in the case.
So just all kinds of absolute legal shenanigans taking place with this judge who absolutely
should not have overseen this case from the start.
Secondly, the ruling itself is this the end of the world.
Does this mean Donald Trump gets away with something else?
No.
And I know that's what everybody on Twitter was basically freaking out about.
Does it hurt the case?
Yeah, it does.
But only in the sense that it's going to delay everything, right?
The DOJ had already told us, they put together a special team, nonpartisan not working on
this investigation to go through the documents.
They identified a few.
They said that were covered by attorney client privilege and that's that.
So they had already done the work, but now we're gonna have a special master come in
Both sides in the case, by the way, Trump and the DOJ have until Friday to nominate
their pick for a special master.
So obviously Trump's gonna pick somebody he thinks is gonna be friendly to him, but the
DOJ also has one hand on the wheel.
So you're not gonna have a Trump person running rough shot over everything, claiming executive
privilege or attorney client privilege over every document instead.
And this is what too few people are talking about.
In fact, I haven't seen anybody talk about it.
What's gonna happen is that each individual document is probably gonna end up having its
own court hearing.
That's where the delay comes in.
It's not that it's gonna take them months and months to sift through documents and look
and make sure there's no privilege.
It's the challenge of the claims of privilege that is going to tie this thing up in the
courts indefinitely at this point.
And that is basically all that Trump can do.
Are there gonna be some documents that we probably need to see that he's gonna be able
to successfully hide?
Yes.
Is that going to be most of the documents in question?
No.
So I don't think this has any real impact on what the ultimate outcome of this investigation
is going to be, but that outcome is now likely pushed back.
I would say at least a year, maybe longer because all Donald Trump wanted to do was
delay it as long as possible.
And that is exactly what his Trump appointed.
Judge, let him do.