Chuck DarwinTrump's Lawyers turn focus to classified documents case after New York verdict
Donald Trump's lawyers are preparing to redirect their focus on the charges that the former president illegally retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida,
moving on after Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies in his New York criminal trial last month.
The documents case now stands with singular importance for Trump,
🔸as it is the only case with ongoing proceedings. 🔸
The other two cases where Trump is a defendant
– the 2020 election interference cases in Washington and Georgia
– are now indefinitely delayed with appeals.
That means Trump’s lawyers are principally occupied with only the documents case as they
intensify efforts to have the presiding US district court judge Aileen Cannon dismiss the indictment or, alternatively, dramatically undercut the evidence prosecutors can present.
The documents case is also bogged down with delays after the Trump lawyers filed motion after motion and sought extension after extension from Cannon,
a Trump appointee who has invariably been skeptical of prosecutors and has a reluctance to rule on even minor issues, allowing a logjam to build.
The case remains alive, for now, but the delays have played into the hands of Trump,
whose overarching legal strategy has been to push any trials until after the 2024 election,
in the hopes that he will be re-elected and🔸 can then appoint a loyalist as attorney general who would drop the charges.🔸
But Trump’s lawyers in the coming weeks are preparing to try to capitalize on their freer schedule and the judge’s disposition, and seek to expunge as much of the evidence that prosecutors have amassed as possible.
The lawyers got an early indication of how Cannon might rule on Trump’s growing tally of motions seeking to throw out the case when,
on Monday, she struck from Trump’s indictment a paragraph about an episode in which Trump waved around a classified document at his Bedminster golf club.
Cannon wrote in a 14-page opinion that she was denying Trump’s request to toss the case completely since the arguments he raised were defense arguments he needed to raise at trial, but granted his request to strike the paragraph on the grounds it was unfairly prejudicial.
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