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July 11 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta have asked a federal court in Florida to postpone their criminal trial in a classified documents case, saying Trump's busy presidential campaign schedule ahead of the 2024 election will make the current trial schedule "untenable."
"President Trump is running for President of the United States and is currently the likely Republican Party nominee. This undertaking requires a tremendous amount of time and energy, and that effort will continue until the election on November 5, 2024," attorneys for Trump and Nauta wrote in a joint court filing late on Monday.
Source: www.cnbc.com...
The Department of Justice’s special counsel urged a federal judge to reject Donald Trump’s bid to indefinitely delay his trial on criminal charges related to his retention of classified documents after he left the White House.
DOJ special counsel Jack Smith’s team said in a new court filing that the former president’s trial should start in Florida on Dec. 11, and not wait until after the 2024 presidential election as Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta have requested.
“There is no basis in law or fact for proceeding in such an indeterminate and open-ended fashion, and the Defendants provide none,” prosecutors wrote in the filing.
As for the impact of the Presidential Records Act on this prosecution, any argument that it mandates dismissal of the Indictment or forms a defense to the charges here borders on frivolous. The PRA is not a criminal statute, and in no way purports to address the retention of national security information. The Defendants are, of course, free to make whatever arguments they like for dismissal of the Indictment, and the Government will respond promptly. But they should not be permitted to gesture at a baseless legal argument, call it “novel,” and then claim that the Court will require an indefinite continuance in order to resolve it.
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: PurpleFox
He cannot have these documents. They do not belong to him. Read the indictment.
Below a snippet from the DOJ response to the delay.
As for the impact of the Presidential Records Act on this prosecution, any argument that it mandates dismissal of the Indictment or forms a defense to the charges here borders on frivolous. The PRA is not a criminal statute, and in no way purports to address the retention of national security information. The Defendants are, of course, free to make whatever arguments they like for dismissal of the Indictment, and the Government will respond promptly. But they should not be permitted to gesture at a baseless legal argument, call it “novel,” and then claim that the Court will require an indefinite continuance in order to resolve it.
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: PurpleFox
You do know that if Trump had returned the docs, not asked his lawyers to destroy them, not ask him to "pluck out the bad ones", not accept the subpoena, but then hide and move them, lie on the attestation to the government, while discussing Natl Security info to those without clearance, he would not be going through this, right?
This was of his own making. He chose to do these things. He never claimed for 18 months that these were "his" documents to keep, destroy, and talk about. He fully accepted the subpoena to return the documents to the rightful ownership of the government. Yet, just decided these were too valuable to him to return for some reason and it was better to lie to and obstruct the government.
originally posted by: PurpleFox
a reply to: Threadbare
Not weird to you at all that none of you hold Biden to this same standard? Extremely telling the kind of ppl y’all are.
Keep making clown noises. HONK HONK
originally posted by: Threadbare
a reply to: PurpleFox
He voluntarily turned over the documents he had in his possession as soon as they were found. Same goes for Pence. The only one that tried to hide and destroy evidence is Trump.
Based on the evidence, he's also the only one that shared classified information with unauthorized people.