Fucking Dest does it again. There's a video for that. Seriously, if I ever get reincarnated as a trader, I wanna be Tommy Lee Jones/Dest.
Page 4 and 5, the government is daring Trump and his team to officially claim in court he declassified the documents and extended some executive privilege to make those documents his personal records. This is the gauntlet right here. It’s put up or shut up time: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.88.0_5.pdf
Justice Department criminal investigation now touches nearly all efforts to overturn 2020 election for Trump https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/13/...-department-election-investigation/index.html
Judge Judy denied the stay requested by the government on the classified documents because she claims their status is in dispute. For the record, their status as classified is not in dispute in her court. In the above the government clearly states the documents are classified and Trump’s team did not in fact dispute this. She is getting this dispute language from watching tv.
Another L for Garland. As I have said many times, once the defense shows up he will have to work for everything he gets. And I am not saying he won't win some things on appeal or that he will. Just that he will have to work every inch of the way. And this thing has not even started. He had his quick ballsy Mar-A-Lago political show theater. Gets difficult after that.
Update: Trump is claiming in the media, not in court, he verbally declassified all of the documents he is in possession of to or in front of Kash Patel. For the record, this does not matter for any of the statutes he is being investigated under but if this is viable or determined to be legal this would mean any president can hold any documents regardless of classification level after their presidency is over and outside of the government.
More… This is a stupid ass argument. Either they are declassified or they are not. Makes zero difference whether it is known now or later. The truth is that the lawyers do not want to commit perjury. Annnnnnnd… this basically invites criminal charges.
In related news, a turd gives a turd. Trumpster Jenna Ellis breaks out turd emoji to complain about 11th Circuit Court ruling https://www.rawstory.com/jenna-ellis-trump-2658320467/