the lawyers reading this and being an attorney and trying to have to defend this page-by-page, number-by-number, asset-by-asset, property-by-property, so we ll see. that was a mouthful, don, you were absolutely right. enjoy yourself. see you later. this is don lemon tonight and this really hasn t been a good 24 hours for donald trump. in large part because of this. but first off because of his hand picked special master basically told him to put up or shut up. now a federal appeals court is calling out his legal team for refusing to provide a shred of evidence for his claims that he declassified documents found in the search of mar-a-lago, so they re allowing the justice department to continue looking at those documents, upending a trial judge s order that the review be blocked, or block the review. and first on cnn, a source says that ginni thomas, a conservative activist, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, agreeing to talk to the january 6th committee in
justice department to continue looking with those documents, upending a trial a trial judges, i should say, ordered, three of you be blocked, walk the review. and first on cnn, the sources that ginni thomas a conservative activist agreeing to talk to the january 6th committee in the coming weeks. and don t forget, that massive lawsuit against the former president, three of his adult children and the trump organization, alleging that their whole business is, essentially, a giant fraud. that s what these documents say. that s what they allege. letitia james, the attorney general of new york, says that the fraud was, and i quote here, approved at the highest levels of the trump organization, including by mr. trump himself. she alleges that eric trump, ivanka trump, and donald trump junior, knowingly participated in the schemes. she says trump and his company lied more than 200 times about the value of his assets, and she is seeking a quarter of a billion dollars, that s a bi
Seeing the classified documents. and laura mentioned it, what was interesting is that yesterday s hearing before the special master, trump s team had argued that they needed to see the classified documents to determine which ones trump had potentially declassified, and that was another area where the 11th circuit called out trump s legal team. they said that so far, trump s legal team has refused to present any evidence at all the trump declassified any of these documents, plus the 11th circuit middle more point that trump has no claim at all to any of these classified documents, writing, for our part, we cannot discern why why plaintiffs would have an individual interest or need for any of the 100 documents were classified markings. classified documents are mark documents are marked all in all, this was, like, a 29-page decision here, and it went point by point to take down trump s legal teams arguments on just about every
The 11th circuit called out trump s legal team. you know, they said that so far trump s legal team has refused to present any evidence at all that trump declassified any of these documents. you know, plus the 11th circuit made one more point that trump just has no claim at all to any of these classified documents, writing for our part, we cannot discern why plaintiff would have an individual interest in or need for any of the 100 documents with classification markings. classified documents are marked to show they are classified, for instance, with their classification level. so all in all, this was like a 29-page decision here and it went point by point to take down trump s legal team s arguments on just about every level here. now the question is what does trump team do next, appeal to the supreme court? it appears that that s their only recourse because there was some question about whether there could be an en banc review