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
You know, i live in washington, everyone is a consultants. trump attorney john laura argued the protective order would put a, quote, shill over trump s ability to defend himself in the 2024 presidential campaign. judge chutkan side, quote, he is a criminal defendant. he is going to have restrictions like every single other defendant. and the fact that the defendant is engaged in a political campaign is not going to allow him any greater or letter lesser latitude than any defendant in a criminal case. that means that he can t say exactly what he wants to say about people who may be witnesses in this case. that is how it s going to have to be. meanwhile, after more than two years of demanding the justice department appoint a special counsel to investigate hunter biden, republicans and congress got their wish. today, attorney general merrick garland announced the appointment of u.s. attorney david weiss as special counsel in the investigation.