'A Major Setback To The DOJ's Crusade': Trump Campaign Responds To Latest Development In Classified Documents Trial

“Today’s order by Judge Cannon is a major setback to the DOJ’s crusade to deny President Trump a fair legal process. The extensive schedule allows President Trump and his legal team to continue fighting this empty hoax. Crooked Joe Biden is losing and attempting to use his weaponized DOJ against his top political rival--a disgraceful and un-American abuse of power. Crooked Joe will fail and President Trump will win back the White House for the American people.”

As previously reported by DC Enquirer, Trump is being tried on charges of mishandling several classified documents he removed from the White House under his unilateral constitutional authority to declassify information.

In her order, Cannon does note the Trump legal team's objections favorably. She wrote,

"Defendants, for their part, characterize the Government’s approach to this case as unusually expedited and cursory, request additional time to conduct an initial review of the voluminous discovery (including yet-to-be produced discovery), and describe the case as falling squarely within the “unusual or complex” designation in 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(B)(ii) [ECF No. 66].

Defendants maintain that this proceeding raises various “novel, complex, and unique legal issues,” citing the interplay between the Presidential Records Act and the various criminal statutes at issue; constitutional and statutory challenges to the authority of the Special Counsel to maintain this action; disputes about the classification status of subject documents; challenges to the grand jury process that led to the indictment (including questions of attorney-client privilege); requests for defense discovery; and other pre-trial motions, including possible motions to suppress and a motion to sever [ECF No. 66; see ECF No. 82].

As a final category, Defendants identify various additional factors the Court deems unnecessary to resolution of the Government’s motion at this juncture, most principally the likelihood of insurmountable prejudice in jury selection stemming from publicity about the 2024 Presidential Election"

Judge Cannon further states that the case objectively meets the judicial standard of a "complex case" despite the DOJ's insistence that "nothing in this case presents a 'novel question[] of fact or law'.” The designation of a complex case allows her to set an expedited schedule which the Trump team seems to see as a win.

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