Lawrence: Trump lawyers' unprofessionalism and incompetence revealed in new filing
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Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Well, the unprofessionalism and incompetence of the Trump team of lawyers continues to amaze. |
| 0:08.5 | The Trump team of lawyers includes the criminal defense lawyers representing Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Florida federal case brought by special prosecutor Jack Smith |
| 0:17.3 | charging Donald Trump in his two co-defendants with illegal possession of classified documents and violations of the Espionage Act. |
| 0:25.0 | Those co-defendants are both employees of Donald Trump, Walt Nauta, and Carlos de Oliver. |
| 0:31.2 | A filing in the case on Friday by Jacksmith's team in reply to |
| 0:36.6 | accusations by the Trump team of lawyers complaining that the prosecution has not |
| 0:42.0 | provided them everything they've asked for in discovery. that the |
| 0:45.0 | the prosecution has not provided them everything they've asked for in discovery in that filing a new jewel of |
| 0:49.0 | Trump lawyer incompetence appears on page 58 of Jack Smith's filing in a discussion of the video |
| 0:58.4 | evidence in the case which of course includes video obtained from the closed circuit security video |
| 1:05.5 | system at Marlargo. Here's what this filing says. Quote, |
| 1:11.8 | Council for Trump has never reported to the government being unable to view the footage as produced |
| 1:18.8 | and as detailed below whenever the government has received notice from the other defendants |
| 1:24.3 | that they were having difficulty, it has responded quickly. In an email on |
| 1:30.9 | October 24th, 2023, months after the materials were made available to the defense counsel for Deolivera, |
| 1:38.0 | for the first time mentioned problems that he had encountered when attempting to access |
| 1:45.3 | specific closed circuit TV files that the government had obtained from the |
| 1:51.2 | Trump organization and produced in discovery. |
| 1:55.0 | The government immediately arranged a call with counsel and technical personnel |
| 2:00.0 | from the FBI to help resolve the reported issues. |
| 2:03.8 | During the call, |
| 2:05.4 | Council for Deolivera explained |
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