In the federal case probing former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, prosecutors have turned over 12.8 million documents to the former president’s legal team as part of disco…
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In the federal case probing former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, prosecutors have turned over 12.8 million documents to the former president’s legal team as part of discovery, prosecutors said Monday.
Trump faces four criminal charges in Washington, D.C., tied to his actions after losing the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan set a trial date of March 4 in the case — a date strongly objected to by Trump’s legal team, which argued that it would take substantially more time than that to get familiar with discovery and ensure the former president is “adequately represented.”
A quarter of the 12.8 million documents are associated with Trump’s campaign or political action committees that have supported it, according to prosecutor Molly Gaston.
Transcripts of grand jury testimony and accompanying exhibits make up 5 million of the documents, and 3 million documents originated from the Secret Service, she said.
So, each and every one of these documents has either incriminating evidence that the prosecution actually intends to introduce, or it has exculpatory evidence that the prosecution is required to hand over. There is no filler, unless the prosecution is being incredibly unethical by trying to burden Trump's defense with unnecessary work.
We know fine fellas like those in the DOJ would neeehhver do that.
So . . . how long should Team Trump be allowed to sort through those twelve million, eight hundred thousand documents? I asked one specific poster on another thread and got a nonsensical answer involving some sort of magical sorting machine with a law degree. Or something. If you also believe in the magical sorting machine, tell me how long it will take the lawyers to read the really important millions of those 12.8 millions, once the initial sort is done.