Dersh claiming that the trial is not a slam dunk. It’s a result of outrageous targeting of Donald Trump and he’s right.
One would think that most any lawyer could make a massive targeting case and then it’s up to the jury to decide whether or not targeting a citizen is legal or not.
Targeting and also DOJ bribiing the other indicted persons lawyer.
Throw in the possibliity that the “ smoking gun” document is nowhere to be found, and the audio may be doctored or taken out of context.
e.g. Trump declassfied everything he had , knowingly or unknowingly, as he was not afforded the same courtesy the keepers of the records have done for other presidents.
He talks about a doument feeling it was part of his overall declassifciation authority, but wisely says its a secret and then uses the word he can’t declassify it now, meaning he’s out of office and it would not be proper to release it for public knoledge and also it may have shown a real paln re Iran.
All very plausible.
Also if anyone thinks the congress critters don’t talk to each other or reporters about “ classified “ stuff they are living in an alternative universe.
Smith is trying to get Roberts to weasel word something to his advantage if it gets to the supreme court.
Roberts of course uses the others never made it this far , and oncke its here we must address rendering Clinton et al immune...
There is a big difference between a classified document and a document containing classified markings. As an example, anyone who has looked at the Carter Page FISA application, made public in July 2018, has reviewed a document containing “classified markings.” When a document is declassified, they do not remove the markings.
You might think this is a one-off use of the “documents with classification markings” lingo, but it’s not. This language is the underpinning of the entire DOJ/FBI framework that predicated the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Specifically, neither NARA nor the DOJ-NSD requested President Trump or his team to return Classified Documents. The DOJ demanded the return of any documents that contained “classified markings.”
I wonder if this was a DOJ/FBI ploy to get back the declassified Crossfire-Hurricane documents that Trump declassified using a blanket declassification on January 19, 2021.
The Trump legal team needs to ascertain the current classification of the documents cited in the indictment. If any of them are Crossfire-Hurricane documents, then they are not classified despite the markings. That said, Trump is allowed under the PRA to hold classified documents.