'Nobody asks for this': Trump's 'unusual' classified docs filing has legal expert bemused
Former President Donald Trump's newest legal filing in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is highly unusual because of the sheer scope of documents it demands be turned over, CNN legal analyst Katelyn Polantz said Wednesday.
The request, filed with the court late Tuesday, is a discovery request for all sorts of documents that could help his case.
"This is a typical thing to happen before any trial where the defense team says we want more evidence," said Polantz. "We want to look at more things to build our case. So what Trump's team is doing now is they're trying to build that case. What they want to do ... is they want to be able to try and find some level of political coordination or communication between not just the Justice Department and their decision-making, but other places."
What makes this request "really unusual," Polantz said, is that, "It's everybody. 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 D.A. and the White House, Secret Service, archives.
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"They want the judge in this case to tell the prosecutors, go across the administration, the Biden administration, and make everybody give over their records around this classified documents case."
It's unknown if this move will be granted, Polantz noted, saying that special counsel Jack Smith will try to fight it, but Judge Aileen Cannon will have the final word.
"Trump is making a very big ask here, which they're able to do in the way that you prepare for a trial, but nobody asks for this amount of stuff," added Polantz.
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