Donald trumps legal team can show him the sensitive materials in the case, but trump cannot take notes on any information that would identify witnesses and, according to the Protective Order, quote, during any time that the defendant reviews sensitive materials outside of Defense Councils presents, the defendant must not have access to any device capable of photocopying, recording, or otherwise replicating the sensitive materials, including a smart cellular device. This Protective Order was a partial win for jack smiths team, who originally sought to prevent the public release of all evidence given to donald trump. Lets not forget these rules for sensitive materials are being enforced on the twice impeached former president who was comfortable with leaving classified documents in a bathroom at his florida residence. Donald trumps legal team has stuck to a very obvious strategy in this case. We naked about First Amendment rights, delay, and then make it some more and then try the case i
Your friday night. You too, buddy. All right. Today, the federal judge overseeing Special Counsel jack smiths case into Donald Trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election and shoot a Protective Order. Judge Tanya Chutkan establish limits on what evidence in the case trump cant discuss publicly. Judge chutkan ordered that donald trump cannot disclose sensitive materials, including recordings, transcripts, interview reports, and related exhibits of witness interviews and materials obtained from other governmental entities. Donald trumps legal team can show him the sensitive materials in the case, but trump cannot take notes on any information that would identify witnesses and, according to the Protective Order, quote, during any time that the defendant reviews sensitive materials outside of Defense Councils presents, the defendant must not have access to any device capable of photocopying, recording, or otherwise replicating the sensitive materials, including a smart cellular device. Th
And the most revealing aspect of the order is a requirement that trump s lawyers review his notes when he is looking at the material to make sure he is not secretly writing down stuff that he could make public later. she said he can t even take his phone in the room when he is looking at this evidence. jonathan, i think she was persuaded by some shade that the prosecutors have thrown. one of the lawyers of the trump house has shown a tendency to hold on to material he should not. an obvious solution to trump s other federal cases. i read that particular order, and i was, like how are they going to guarantee this given past practice? cynthia, as we are talking, about donald trump has a habit of taking documents he shouldn t take. what are some of the guidelines for donald trump s legal team regarding who can see the sensitive material? only the legal team can see
Paul butler and cynthia paul, me start with you. is this protective order a victory for jack smith? it s mainly a victory for jack smith. so the judge signaled that she is going to be very fair to trump in the way that she has to every defendant, but that she is not putting up with his typical nonsense. and, so she went along with the defense requests that if the protective order needed to be limited. she limited it to sensitive materials, but she has a very broad definition of what sensitive materials me. and the most revealing aspect of the order is a requirement that trump s lawyers review his notes when he is looking at the material to make sure he is not secretly writing down stuff that he could make public later. she said he can t even take his phone in the room when he is looking at this evidence. jonathan, i think she was persuaded by some shade that the prosecutors have thrown. one of the lawyers of the trump house has shown a tendency to hold on to material he should no