'That must stop': Jack Smith torches Trump's 'plainly wrong' bid to delay docs deadlines

Special Counsel Jack Smith Sunday smacked down Donald Trump's effort to ask Judge Cannon to delay certain deadlines in his classified documents case, citing the criminal hush money trial he is facing.

One day earlier, Trump moved to use his upcoming criminal case in New York to seek a delay on disclosure deadlines to reveal information to Smith. In Trump's hush money trial set for Monday, the former president stands accused of falsifying business records to conceal a "catch-and-kill" scheme aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election.

Smith's response to Trump's delay bid came the next day.

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"This Court set the May 9 deadline fully apprised of defendant Trump’s New York trial. Although the defendants’ motion reads as though the Court were unaware of Trump’s other case, and as if the defendants had no forewarning that a Section 5 deadline would be set, those premises are plainly wrong," Smith's motion states. "The defendants have had ample notice that these deadlines would be scheduled and have already had months to complete the work. The cases the defendants cite to claim a constitutional right to postponement are inapposite for these reasons and others."

Smith goes on to suggest that Trump's pattern of delay "must stop."

"Each time the Court sets a new deadline in this case and attempts to keep it moving toward trial, the defendants reflexively ask for an adjournment. That must stop," the brief says. "The Court should deny defendants’ motions to continue the May 9 expert witness disclosure and CIPA Section 5 notice deadlines."

National security attorney Bradley Moss used a fire emoji in describing the reply.

"Smith’s team snaps back at Trump for trying to indefinitely postpone the [Mar-a-Lago] docs proceeding, saying that Trump has had months to prepare for the pending CIPA deadline, he has local counsel who can sub in while his primary lawyers are busy in the NYC trial, and basically begs Judge Cannon to put an end to Trump’s delay tactics," he wrote.

Read the full filing right here.