Donald Trump's lawyer submitted a 21 page filing to court yesterday, trying to convince
the judge that this investigation has just totally in their words, spiraled out of control.
And they would like the judge to just reign it in a little bit.
Now, what they're specifically asking the judge to do is to not lift the order that
says the DOJ cannot go through the documents before the special master is officially appointed.
The DOJ of course, had argued to the court prior to the Trump lawyer, filing that we
need to kind of continue our job here.
We've got a lot going on and we need to get busy with it.
And of course they had a lot of actually really good legal arguments in there, but that doesn't
matter when you're up against a Trump appointed judge, but it was the filing from the Trump
lawyers, right?
That called everybody's attention.
Because again, these are lawyers that are basically whining to the court saying, we
can't handle this.
We don't know what we're doing.
So let me read this.
from their filing.
This investigation of the 45th president of the United States is both unprecedented and
misguided 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.
So what they're saying, there is one he's breaking the law, cuz this is the thing that
these people, I don't know if they don't know it, or if they just refuse to accept it classified
or not classified, that is totally irrelevant to the point here.
Trump is legally not allowed to have the documents.
So even if we weren't dealing with potential violations of the ESP espionage act, we're
still dealing with violations of the presidential records act, which of course carries a penalty
that includes the complete barring from ever holding public office here in the United States.
Again, not exactly a winning argument to go to the judge and say, yeah, he has these things,
but really y'all are just mad at how he stored them.
No, we're mad that he had them in the first place because that is illegal.
That's the illegal part.
The ESP espionage act part actually came later when we learned the documents were classified.
Prior to that, it was strictly a violation of the presidential records act, at least
that we, the public knew of.
So you don't get to sit there.
Actually.
Maybe you do because this is not helping your case at all.
And argue that yes, he had them and he's allowed to have them.
No, no.
There is no universe under which he is allowed to have these things, whether or not he classified
them, whether or not he thought they were his personal items, they were covered by the
presidential records act.
And therefore they belong in the national archives and
Only in the national archives.
But I do love that they're using this kind of language, right?
It's spiraling out of control.
What they're really trying to tell the judge is, look, we don't know what the hell we're
doing.
We're in over our heads.
This is spiraling out of control for us because it really is.
We're talking about a gaggle of lawyers whose biggest legal achievement Alina Haba was,
uh, serving as the general council council for a parking garage company.
So you're a parking lawyer.
Christina, Bob came straight from one American news network, right?
Like you couldn't even make it on one of the real conservative networks.
You had to go over to the Looney tunes one.
And now you're Donald Trump's lawyer.
That's probably not good.
Evan Coran of course does have real legal experience, but he also has a, uh, uh, another
lawyer from Florida who also has basically no real criminal defense experience on her
resume whatsoever.
So you do have lawyers that obviously would look at this and say, yes, it's spiraling
out of control because that's what tends to happen when you have a legal team that has
no earthly
clue what
they're doing.