Former President Donald Trump's lawyers are reportedly planning to win their classified documents case by showing the intelligence community is “biased” against him.
That and more was revealed in a document filed by his lawyers on Tuesday.
They said in the filing that they plan to “put allegations that the intelligence community was biased against Mr. Trump at the center of his defense against charges that he illegally retained dozens of highly classified documents sensitive after leaving office,” he said. The New York Times.
The intelligence community is relevant to the case because its members are expected to testify about classified documents that Trump kept with him after he left office in early 2021.
“One of the ways that President Trump will challenge [their] The testimony is showing that the intelligence community has acted with a bias against him dating back at least to the whistleblower's 2019 complaint related to his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,” Trump's lawyers wrote.
The lawyers also attacked special counsel Jack Smith.
“The Office of Special Counsel has ignored basic discovery obligations and DOJ policies in an effort to support the Biden Administration's egregious efforts to weaponize the criminal justice system in pursuit of a target that the President Biden cannot achieve on the campaign trail: to slow down President Trump's primary campaign in the 2024 presidential election,” they argued.
In attacking Smith, they pointed to Trump's decisive victory in Iowa this week and argued that the classified documents case against him demonstrates “partisan interference in the election.”
“The patent absurdity of the Bureau's efforts is illustrated by the fact that while he was working yesterday to secure a historic victory in the Iowa caucuses, President Trump was also preparing to bring to the attention of your Hon. the record of misrepresentations and discovery violations that have bedeviled this case from the start and illustrate that the Bureau has disregarded fundamental fairness and its legal obligations in favor of partisan election interference,” they wrote.
In the filing, Trump's lawyers also demanded additional information about an alleged Energy Department security clearance that the former president had used after leaving office to justify keeping it in the classified documents.
Trump lawyers tonight in classified documents case file bombshell motion for discovery; again insists that special counsel Jack Smith is concealing evidence including voluminous records demonstrating cooperation with Biden, the White House, NARA, DOJ, FBI and intelligence agencies: pic.twitter.com/cXr9endnj5
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) January 17, 2024
All of this comes about a year and a half after Trump was charged with dozens of felonies for keeping classified documents after leaving office.
“The charges include 31 counts of willful withholding of national defense information and single counts of making false statements and representations, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document, concealing a document in a federal investigation and a cover-up scheme. ,” according to NBC news.
The judge presiding over the case is Trump appointee Aileen Cannon. His willingness to side with Trump on a number of case-related matters has made him his public enemy number one in the eyes of the left.
Last week, he issued a ruling rejecting the special counsel's request “to order Trump to say whether he intends to rely on 'defense counsel' before the trial, currently scheduled for 20 of May,” he said. blackboard.
That said, not everyone is confident he'll buy into the Trump team's latest demands.
Appearing on MSNBC, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance stated that the request for more information will be overturned in its entirety.
“They want the special counsel to go and work with the entire intelligence community to turn over everything in the possession of the intelligence community that has to do with this,” he said.
“So I think the safest thing to say is that we should wait for Jack Smith's response, which will certainly be quite harsh, given what the defense is asking here,” he added.
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CNN analyst Katelyn Polantz also had her criticisms of the presentation.
“This is a typical thing that happens before any trial where the defense team says we want more evidence,” he said. “We want to look at more things to build our case. So what the Trump team is doing now is they're trying to build that case. What they want to do … is to be able to try to find some level of political coordination or communication between not just the Department of Justice and its decision-making, but other places.”
What makes this request “really unusual,” he continued, is that it includes “everyone.”
“It's the intelligence community, it's the White House counsel's office, the Biden White House, the National Security Council. They want to see interactions between the Fulton County DA and the Secret Service archives of the White House,” he explained.
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