sensitive documents. so it doesn t matter that they were there. he said, quote, everything was declassified. so far, that argument has been noticeably absent for many decoration by trump s lawyers in court. this morning, and a legal filing, trump s attorneys once again failed to say that trump declassified any documents. for the more, then system that actually, these documents might not in fact be classified to begin with. essentially, trump s team is saying, don t trust the doj, because who knows of these papers are really classified. over and over again. the 100 classified documents identified by the doj, the justice department, are afford to buy trump s legal team as, quote, purportedly classified. yes, that s classified in quotes. a little over two hours after that sharply ordered filing, trump s attorneys in the justice department appeared in federal court in brooklyn this afternoon for their first conference with the newly in pointed trump picked special master, and jud
court in brooklyn this afternoon for their first conference with the newly in pointed trump picked special master, and judge raymond dearie. gary is a senior judge in the eastern district of new york.eis brooklyn is his turf. two hours after trump s team cast out on the government s assertion that these documents are classified, again, ca reportedly classified, with air quotes.encl yes, like this very clearly marked documents you see right now on your screen. reportedly classified. the special master, again, and pick by trump, especially says, i m inclined to think they are indeed classified. before i read this quote, quick classical lesson here. you should know that prima flashy evidence means on the hy face of it. here is judge jerry on these documents, speaking to trump s attorneys. the government, of course, once the classified documents off thh table for the moment at least. and i understand that. we re dealing with presumably highly sensitive information. if i m going t
implicit declassification that he was, if you will, so cavalier and careless in the way he handled documents in the white house, and perhaps even down at mar-a-lago, that he took things up to the lake lincoln bedroom, he left them strewn around the east wing of the white house, he took them down to mar-a-lago and left them strewn around their. and this was somehow implicitly declassified. i think that s the broadest trump argument. maybe they think they can level that somewhere and get some traction for it, but the judge said in this proceeding, it s not a criminal case where the government has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. the burdens on trump s lawyers to prove that this stuff wasn t classified if that is indeed a critical issue that stunt contention in this case. until then, unless they do, that he s gonna presume they are classified. i thought was really interesting. a, he s not gonna let them have access to the documents as they desperately want, and be, he himself doesn
from the very beginning, it was secret, and only in the second administration to do trust me enough to say, you put them away. he had hit the ministry sock drawer in the closet in the bedroom. well. when judicial watch found out about the tapes, they filed a lawsuit to get them. they said, these are official presidential records and we should have access to them like any other presidential record. the national archives and records administration, norah, countered that former president clinton had decided these tapes where his personal property. there were a personal record he made for himself. and kept us locked. or the archives weren t gonna demand that he had them over. judicial watch lost the case. the court ruled that bill clinton was within his rights to the side that is socked or tapes or personal records. based on that ruling, donald trump is claiming that he has the right to declare that all these classified documents he s hidden away at his beach club are as personal records
i know this is all supposition and prognostication. it does sound like what she s been promising in that apartment now for a year or two, which is some kind of massive civil case on behalf of the state of new york. perhaps on behalf of the city, or other entities in new york that may have been shredded in her view. we ll state taxes, perhaps subject to some kind of insurance fraud. she s gonna file some kind of case. it sounds like trump was deposed, you remember, after his ex-wife passed away. it was delayed, and back in august, he was finally deposed in this case. i think he invoked the fifth amendment more than 400 times. he fought tooth and nail to not give that deposition where he didn t end up saying anything anyways. obviously, he didn t want the optics of having to invoke the fifth amendment as many times as he did. it sounds like this is where letitia james has had it. she doesn t have a lot of criminal jurisdiction. so it sounds most likely like this is the long advertised