Donald Trump’s trial on charges that he retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and obstructed justice is running about four months behind schedule after the federal judge presiding in the case in Florida declined to set a crucial filing deadline until at least next March.
The US district judge Aileen Cannon put off setting a deadline for Trump to submit a notice about what classified information he intends to use at trial – currently set for May – until after a hearing next year that almost certainly precludes the pre-trial process from finishing in time.
Trump was indicted this summer with violating the Espionage Act when he illegally retained classified documents after he left office and conspiring to obstruct the government’s efforts to retrieve them from his Mar-a-Lago club, including defying a grand jury subpoena.
She’s a goddamned disgrace.
Isn’t what specific classified documents irrelevant to the charges? The question is whether or not trump retained classified documents after leaving the presidency. Unless the defense is going to argue that in the documents kept, none of it was actually classified, this is a dead end. Why should they get months to review trumps stockpile? It makes sense for the prosecutor to review the documents and select specific ones to establish him violating the espionage act. What would the defense expect to submit from the pile? Literally the entire pile of documents only serve to prove their clients guilt.
The name of the game is to delay until after the election.
Yup. The orange menace wants to be POTUS so jail is postponed.
Long live 'Merica.
He wants to be dictator.
And, from another post, possibly to obstruct other trials by using scheduling conflicts. Not sure how conflicting schedules would work.
(At this point, if I were the other judges I’d just say “fuck it” and schedule without considering her schedule. Probably one of the many reasons I’m not a judge,)
Will the espionage act ever be used to prosecute an actual act of espionage? The act is deliberately misnamed.
Trump had classified documents. He didn’t follow the proper procedures, but if he were accused of giving classified documents to an enemy government, that would be in the headline.
If this were actual espionage, and these classified documents were already in the hands of an enemy govermemt, there would be no reason to delay the trial to keep the documents out of the public record.
The espionage act has only ever been used against whistleblowers, journalists, and Trump. Treason already exists as a much better way to prosecute americans for actual espionage.
Okay, two things:
1 - if I take a pen, I might have forgotten I had the pen. If I take boxes of pens, I meant to take them.
2 - scanners and copy machines are a thing.
congratulations on being able to identify basic office tools.
