Trump's Lawyers Are Lying In The Stolen Documents Case. Will (Trump-Appointed) Judge Cannon Accept Their Obvious Lies As Facts?
In response to prosecutors' suggestion of a Dec. 11 trial date, Trump's lawyers offered no alternate date. They want the trial postponed until . . . . well, never.
Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC, July 11, 2023
The Trump lawyers do not suggest an alternative date to the December 11 trial date proposed by the prosecutors. The Trump lawyers ask for no trial date at all, and insist to the judge that a trial date doesn’t really matter anyway, because they — and Donald Trump — are expecting her to dismiss the case based on pre-trial motions . . . At the top of page 2 of their filing, Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyers tell the judge — who he appointed — exactly what Donald Trump expects of her. “The intersection between the Presidential Records Act and the various criminal statutes at issue has never been addressed by any court, and in the Defendants’ view, will result in a dismissal of the indictment.”
The only person who can dismiss the indictment is the judge in the case, who was appointed by the defendant in the case and the defendant in the case is now telling that judge, in writing, that she will do that. “. . . will result in a dismissal of the indictment.” . . .
No federal judge in history has ever presided over the criminal trial of the person who appointed that federal judge. That has never happened in our history.
This is a quote from page one of the filing:
Here is a quote from Trump, from the evening of June 13 (the day he was indicted):
Here are Trump’s lawyers, on page 6:
O’Donnell:
Trump’s lawyers have adopted Trump’s lie and presented it in a court filing as part of the reason why the trial should be indefinitely postponed.
That line is now the lowest point that the Trump criminal defense lawyers have sunk to in their defense of the pathological liar who they are representing. We now know that the Trump criminal defense lawyers will lie to the judge (that Donald Trump appointed) and that they will do it in writing and that they will do it without the slighest trepidation that the judge Donald Trump appointed will in any way fault them for lying to her in writing. . . . They have presented to her, not a test of her willingness to accept their lies, but a belief that she will.
It is now the most important test [with which] Judge Cannon has been presented at this early stage of the case. Will she accept Donald Trump’s lawyers lying to her in writing that this is “the prosecution of a leading Presidential candidate by his political opponent”? If she accepts that lie as fact, instead of rejecting it as a lie, then she will have chosen sides in this case — if she hasn’t already.
This filing also reveals Trump’s latest legal role model. It’s former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.