this about the massive tranche of classified documents that were in trump s possession and have been ever since he left office in january 2021. they write this, quote, the extent to which such a large number of hailey sensitive documents remained at mar-a-lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material that should have been left in government custody when trump left office suggested to officials that the former president or his aides have been cavalier in handling it, not fully forthcoming with investigators or both. the first batch of documents 15 boxes in total retrieved in january reportedly contained 150 classified documents, and the national archives relayed to trump s team just how sensitive these documents were in their may letter, telling trump s attorneys those boxes contained 700 pages of classified materials, some of them with the highest levels of classification possible. which suggests that they contain some of the government s most ferv
and one of the obvious conclusions that we could reach is that s form shopping. judge reinhart hasn t been a good judge for trump so far. he s perhaps hoping that he s got a better judge on his hands here, but the judge is signaling something very important. she s saying what do you want me to do? what s my legal authority? litigants can t just go into court and say judge, i d like you to wave a magic wand and make it go away. they have to say you have statutory authority for taking specific action that i want you to take, and that s what s completely missing from trump s motion. following a search warrant, if someone whose residence or car is searched, they will file a civil action for redress or they can wait until they re indicted and file a motion to suppress the evidence saying that it s the product of an illegal search. and obviously trump hasn t done that, either of those things
and that is because it s almost being treated right now as stolen material, and so the plaintiffs in this case and the plaintiffs in this case in georgia are good government folks, the coalition for good governance, who say georgia needs to do more to protect the security of its election in november, and they re saying, we want to be absolved by the judge before we go in and really dig through this data or have our experts do that. and the plaintiffs or the defendants in this case are the state of georgia, who s being asked to do more about security. we can tell from the file names, from the particular even photographs of the laptops and the voting machines that were that claimed to be copied, that this includes not only voting information from 2020 but, as we understand it, from experts we ve talked to, this would include a type of information called object code that could be you could write a cipher, basically, to then view the source code that runs some of the election systems