Trump's latest filing in his criminal obstruction of classified documents case is a time-sucking ruse.
That's essentially how national security attorney Bradley Moss chocked it up when he appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell Tuesday night.
"It's a narrative dressed up with legal arguments," he said.
In the over 200 pages filed in the South Florida classified documents case, former President Donald Trump's legal team called out special counsel Jack Smith for cutting corners when it comes to "basic discovery obligations" and demands it widen the scope.
The papers say Smith's office is "seeking to avert its eyes from exculpatory, discoverable evidence in the hands of the senior officials at the White House, DOJ, and FBI who provided guidance and assistance as this lawless mission proceeded, and the agencies that supported the flawed investigation from its inception such as NARA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ('ODNI'), and other politically-charged components of the Intelligence Community."
In arguing why the filing amounts to virtually noise sans substance, Moss paraphrased a quote by poet and author Carl Sandburg: "If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.”
"That's what this motion is," he said. "They don't expect to find this evidence of collusion."
The request they are hoping wins over U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon would put the team on a scavenger hunt to go everywhere and anywhere to determine if any agency has possible relevant information related to the case.
"They don't expect to find this evidence of collusion," Moss argues. "If they were to get some of this extra discovery trying to find communications with the White House on Hunter Biden and anybody else that the DOJ may have spoken to in the last three years."
It's about buying more time; until November when Trump, should he be the GOP nominee, hopes to take back the presidency.
"They want to drag the process out. That's their point with this, which is to try to see if Judge Cannon will agree with them to expand the scope to acquire some additional discovery and to produce more information that will take longer to get through."
