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The sideling of TFG's $3 million lawyer and the failure to hire a data vendor makes sense if you understand that TFG have given up on the Special Master litigation. The 11th Circuit killed the underlying premise of that case by holding that declassification is a red herring in that TFG would never be entitled to the documents in question even if they were declassified.
TFG is not going to find any attorney who will lie for TFG and make the dumb arguments that TFG has made.
Link to tweet
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-legal-blunder/
Weissmann, alongside former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman was interviewed by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell.
Special master Raymond Dearie ordered Trump's lawyers to secure a document vendor, but in a Tuesday legal filing, the Department of Justice said none of the five major firms want to work for Trump, so the federal government guaranteed payment.
"I think there is something we can take away from what seems like a small potatoes kind of thing," Weissmann said. "I think what Donald Trump is doing is quiet quitting. He brought this case and he realized he is worse off from having brought this case."
Weissman noted reports attorney Chris Kise left only weeks after being paid $3 million.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,105 posts)this statement in the press
Special master Raymond Dearie ordered Obama's lawyers to secure a document vendor, but in a Tuesday legal filing, the Department of Justice said none of the five major firms want to work for Obama, so the federal government guaranteed payment.
If about Obama, EVERY SINGLE news source, EVERY SINGLE newspaper would be first page about a former prez being such a deadbeat that nobody would do this service in fear of not being paid.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,234 posts)It looks like the FBI got these docs before the traitor could sell them.
What's in his other properties?
Why is he not in jail?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Isn't it weird how Trump always loses or forgets his wallet when the bill comes around?
getagrip_already
(14,603 posts)or he is held in contempt and could be jailed.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)According to the excerpt from the Raw Story account, the federal government has guaranteed the payment Trump is supposed to make. We'll see if that's enough to persuade one of the five "major firms" contacted for this task to take it on. Much as I'd like to see Trump held in contempt, this looks more and more like another colossal mess that Trump is just going to walk away from. And then he'll turn right around and complain about how unfair everything is to him and how he was thi-i-i-s close to paying the bill when the government stepped in, and now he doesn't know who to send the money to. It could take weeks!
crickets
(25,950 posts)Anyone else would simply be told to pay the bill or else.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But if the FBI and Department of Justice want to get through their investigation this decade, they're going to have to do a lot of things for the former guy that he should be doing (or has been ordered to do) himself. The former guy knows the government won't sanction him, because he'll summon the flying monkeys of his nitwit brigade to threaten or bully government officials and media outlets. It's been six years, and nobody in a position to do so has yet figured out how to deal with the former guy's terrorist threats.
But if his brilliant idear of demanding a special master has blown up in his face like a novelty cigar, I'm all for it. Maybe even Judge Cannon will tire of Trump's antics and dismiss his case, and the investigation into how badly our national security has been compromised can proceed on a more familiar track.
crickets
(25,950 posts)As usual, everyone else is left to clean up the toddler's mess. The good news is that this backfired spectacularly. That alone makes it worthwhile.
smb
(3,471 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,361 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,769 posts). . .and/or tying to pussyfoot his way out.
calimary
(81,085 posts)OMG!!!!!
Cue the Steve Miller Band: "Wo-oh Take the Money and Run.."
EndlessWire
(6,448 posts)"Weissman noted reports attorney Chris Kise left only weeks after being paid $3 million." When did that happen?
UTUSN
(70,639 posts)maxsolomon
(33,232 posts)Is that who'd control the documents while Trump's lawyers look at them (after getting security clearance)?
carpetbagger
(4,390 posts)Essentially, they scan, upload, store, and process digital copies of the seized documents.
erronis
(15,169 posts)and ended up with another tfg retreat. Gotta be tiring being a trump - always running backwards.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)They are, and always have been US Government property, and he stole them.
It's pretty cut and dried.
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)japple
(9,805 posts)heroes in reporting. Together with Nicolle Wallace.
Ford_Prefect
(7,867 posts)play by the actual rules.