If Trump’s attorneys are trying to play a game of legal chess, they need to realize that their Justice Department rivals keep taking all of their pieces. (via MaddowBlog)
Donald Trump’s legal team on Wednesday renewed its request for a third party to review documents FBI agents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate, arguing that left to their own devices, “unchecked investigators” would selectively leak bits of their investigation with no recourse for the former president.
But as former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, an MSNBC legal analyst, told Alex Wagner on the air last night, “There is not much new in the document, other than ... some insults hurled at the Justice Department. Some of the things that were in the government’s response, I just don’t think that the Trump team has an answer for.”
“The purported justification for the initiation of this criminal probe was the alleged discovery of sensitive information contained within the 15 boxes of Presidential records,” the attorneys wrote. “But this ‘discovery” was to be fully anticipated given the very nature of Presidential records. Simply put, the notion that Presidential records would contain sensitive information should have never been cause for alarm.
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