I Can’t Believe Antifa Did This To Him. Either.

AUSAs watching Truth Social feed right now pic.twitter.com/HNxwyn7NlI

— WhyIsHatSoMean? (@Popehat) August 31, 2022

So they weren’t planted by the FBI?

They took out the documents that our lawyers said we didn't have and took pictures of them. https://t.co/C3jk5EGeSl

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) August 31, 2022

I love that trump’s out there critiquing the FBI’s photography choices like “THAT’S NOT HOW I STORE MY STOLEN GOODS”

— Jeff Mac (@JeffMacIsHere) August 31, 2022

Dude. https://t.co/sQCT5XSXxr

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 31, 2022

And what if Stanley Kubrick really did fake the moon landing? 🌝 🫠

Hey, @popehat, do you suppose the DOJ's budget includes $1.6 million they could use to pay the past due fees Truth Social owes RightForge for their hosting services?
Seems like it would be a shame to let this goldmine of evidence dry up. pic.twitter.com/EQwbalLnBl

— Denys Beecher (@BeecherDenys) August 31, 2022

At this point I wonder why even the most clueless lawyer doesn’t drop Trump as a client. Then I consider their work product.

nation's criminal procedure professors reach for a drink pic.twitter.com/vvi0g2F9Rm

— Elizabeth Joh (@elizabeth_joh) September 1, 2022

You’ll have to take my word for it, but that reads like the author got her/his law license by sending in bubblegum wrappers.

/2 Predictably the Trump reply leans further into suggesting that the judge or Special Master should have some role in evaluating his very silly Presidential Records Act argument, which has nothing to do with the purpose of a special master.

— WhyIsHatSoMean? (@Popehat) September 1, 2022

It still feels like Trump has a lot of input on these things. If I ever had a client insist on that, I’d tell them to get a new lawyer. My name goes in those pleadings, not the client’s.

“the standard give-and-take between former Presidents and NARA regarding Presidential library contents” is certainly one way of describing hoarding hundreds of classified documents. https://t.co/roMrOkDxu3 pic.twitter.com/jSsoKHL0hW

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 1, 2022

"Everybody does it, Your Honor! Why you pickin’ on me? Obama, Obama, Obama!  It’s not fair!!!!!”

JUST IN: Trump’s lawyers have responded to the DOJ and it’s unclear whether they understand that acknowledging their client’s “possession of … Presidential records” is admitting that he did crimes pic.twitter.com/gE0b9sojCg

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) September 1, 2022

I just don’t think this ends well.

Trump new legal filing intimates that a Fourth Amendment challenge to the search warrant, which Jim Trusty said many days ago was "hours" away, could be an eventual step after a special master, but still makes no such challenge.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 1, 2022

Translation: this is just a “Hail Mary” until they can get far enough along to figure out a 4th Amendment claim.

I can’t believe ANTIFA did this to him. pic.twitter.com/h0Lk4Zysiu

— Jason Selvig (@jasonselvig) August 31, 2022

Same.

So we’re just going to beg for an indictment basically https://t.co/NKBJQJbrer

— WhyIsHatSoMean? (@Popehat) September 1, 2022

Honestly, 5-year olds could do better than this.

(Just to be absolutely clear: the FBI staged this photograph to show what they found, where they found it, and what it was stored with/in. This is not a still from a wildlife documentary.)

And tell me you don’t practice criminal law without telling me you don’t practice criminal law:

Trump says he has standing b/c "it is the reasonable expectation of privacy in one’s home that triggers the obvious standing of the homeowner to contest a search on those premises." Wrong. that's for the search if he's charged. can't do it in advance.

— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) September 1, 2022

And they think this is a defense:

Our full story on Trump's filing tonight: Trump tells court that classified material should have been expected in presidential records found at Mar-a-Lago https://t.co/yLpyG35JKt

— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) September 1, 2022