The independent arbiter tasked with inspecting documents seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home said Tuesday he intends to push briskly through the review process.
said Tuesday he intends to push briskly through the review process and appeared skeptical of the Trump team's reluctance to say whether it believed the records had been declassified.
Though Trump's lawyers had requested the appointment of a special master to ensure an independent review of the documents, one of the former president's attorneys, James Trusty, made clear they were concerned that Dearie's proposed deadlines were too ambitious. A sketch shows Judge Raymond Dearie and lawyers for the Justice Department and former President Donald Trump in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022.Trusty said the Trump team should not be forced at this point to disclose a possible defense based on the idea that the records had been declassified. He denied that the lawyers were trying to engage in"gamesmanship" but instead believed it was a process that required"baby steps.
"As someone who has been president of the United States, he has unfettered access along with unfettered declassification authority," Trusty said Tuesday. "Otherwise, the Special Master process will have forced the Plaintiff to fully and specifically disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment," they wrote.
Dearie, a Ronald Reagan appointee whose name is on the atrium of his Brooklyn courthouse, made clear during Tuesday's meeting that he intended to meet the deadlines, saying there was"little time" to complete the assigned tasks.
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