It turns out the defense 'I declassified everything!' only works if you're willing to prove it.
Elsewhere in their filing, Trump’s legal team quibbled over Dearie’s proposed timeline for dealing with the documents in question. PerFor example, Judge Dearie apparently proposed that both sides complete their sifting of the documents and proposals for how to label them by October 7. After that deadline, Judge Dearie would write a report to a Trump-appointed judge,who named him special master and set an overall deadline of November 30, recommending how she should rule about any disagreements.
The Trump legal team said October 7 was far too early a date for that phase of the work to be done, writing: “We respectfully suggest that all of the deadlines can be extended to allow for a more realistic and complete assessment of the areas of disagreement.”On Tuesday, lawyers for the former president and the Department of Justice appeared in court to argue their sides to Dearie, and let’s just say things could have gone better from the perspective of the ex-president.
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