Trump lawyer to unveil legal strategy using tricks learned from defending rappers: report

Steven Sadow, former President Donald Trump's attorney in the Georgia election racketeering case, is planning a new move that could unveil his long-term defense strategy, the New York Times reported.

Unlike many of the more flamboyant legal defenders of the former president, Sadow has remained largely out of the spotlight as the case has advanced. But that could be about to change, reported Richard Fausset.

Sadow has now put forward an argument that Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election were protected by the First Amendment — and he is scheduled to make a court appearance on Friday to argue that Trump should be granted access to government documents that he believes could help him prove that the election was in fact stolen from him.

That hearing, wrote Fausset, "Could provide early hints of Mr. Sadow’s long-game strategy, and how he might incorporate lessons learned over decades of defending a colorful roster of clients including rappers and the occasional tabloid demi-celebrity."

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Former federal prosecutor Arthur Leach, who has brought a case with Sadow at the opposing table, told the paper, “This is an enormously creative guy who will design a defense based on all the tools at his disposal.”

The First Amendment defense, which has been telegraphed for some time, is however unlikely to succeed, according to experts.

For one thing, as some legal experts have noted, there can be a distinct legal division drawn between engaging in speech about elections and taking action behind closed doors to overturn an election.

The Georgia case is one of multiple criminal cases Trump is facing at the moment. One of the others, being heard in Washington, D.C., also relates to plots to overturn the election, this one brought by special counsel Jack Smith.