This is not in good faith or remotely reasonable. In the alternative universe where Trump really was cheated and could prove it AND he could prove he knew it it wouldn't be a defense. You can't legally try to "fix" an election one way because it's "fixed" the other way. If the law be followed all involved go to jail.

There is no legal reason to provide documents that would endanger national security AND wouldn't provide a valid defense.

So…. His defense is fake his death in an airplane crash and run?

"... President Trump acted at all times in good faith..." - I'm pretty certain that the GOP in general, and #45 in particular never act in good faith.

He's gonna lose this one, too. Their main objection is that the evidence being referenced isn't what Trump is being charged for, to which Jack Smith is like, "Duh, we know." It's meant to illustrate Trump's character, and that's why it's not necessary to Jack's case or necessary to share the specific documents with Trump's lawyers via discovery (something they've been trying to get their hands on, unsuccessfully). The content doesn't matter. That they exist does.

This is a DOA motion, brought to you by the "best" lawyers Trump could find.

classified discovery issues

Admitting to other crimes as a legal defense... Bold move, cotton. Let's see how that goes.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

At the time, the Justice Department dropped the charges rather than hand over the highly classified documents to the Russians' defense team, citing "a risk of exposure of law enforcement's tools and techniques."

Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team filed a classified response on Friday opposing Trump's attempts to obtain the documents.

Smith team member Thomas P. Windom notified Chutkan on Friday that prosecutors have submitted their motion to block Trump's request to a classified information security officer, who then stores it until the judge is ready to review it.

His legal team's submission states that, between the classified information on foreign interference and biased intelligence reports, "this evidence will undercut central theories of the prosecution and establish that President Trump acted at all times in good faith and on the belief that he was doing what he had been elected to do."

They were partially owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late St. Petersburg businessman and founder of the Wagner mercenary group, then one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest allies.

The indictment detailed activities of an operation called the Internet Research Agency, in which Russians in a St. Petersburg office building were accused of impersonating Americans on social media in an attempt to disrupt the 2016 presidential election between Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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