Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
Donald Trump keeps getting bad news ahead of his hush money trial in New York. The latest is that he can’t go on a “fishing expedition” in connection with the new Stormy Daniels documentary. The film, “Stormy,” is streaming on NBCUniversal’s Peacock service. Trump subpoenaed NBCU, seeking a broad array of materials related to the film, which centers on the witness in the criminal case.
But the problem with Trump’s claims is that they’re “purely speculative and unsupported,” Judge Juan Merchan explained Friday. Granting NBCU’s motion to quash the subpoena, the judge called Trump’s effort “the very definition of a fishing expedition.” The denial comes at the end of a week that also included Merchan expanding Trump’s gag order and rejecting his attempt to delay and weaken the case based on immunity.
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