Court papers filed by his lawyers, formally a request for discovery evidence, sounded at times more like political talking points.
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump said in court papers filed on Tuesday night that they intended to place accusations that the intelligence community was biased against Mr. Trump at the heart of their defense against charges accusing him of illegally holding onto dozens of highly sensitive classified documents after he left office.
The lawyers also indicated that they were planning to defend Mr. Trump by seeking to prove that the investigation of the case was “politically motivated and biased.”
The court papers, filed in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla., gave the clearest picture yet of the scorched earth legal strategy that Mr. Trump is apparently planning to use in fighting the classified documents indictment handed up over the summer.
While the 68-page filing was formally a request by Mr. Trump’s lawyers to the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, to provide them with reams of additional information that they believe can help them fight the charges, it often read more like a list of political talking points than a brief of legal arguments.
And in Florida he will get his venue for sure. The judge is a trump appointee who apparently wants to give him his platform.
I’m very interested in the underlaying legal arguments they will make, but the … it’s all connected, and what about Joe… this is about not complying with a a repeated legal request/order to return document and then lying about it. Again it will be the cover up that will land someone in hot water, not the crime itself.
He best not hope that SCOTUS rules a president has absolute immunity from prosecution before he is president, else POTUS only has one option given how much vengeance trump preaches.