Jack Smith fires back at Donald Trump

| 12:01 pm EDT August 15, 2023
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Because Donald Trump is going on federal criminal trial for having stolen classified documents, some of the evidence in the case against him is naturally classified. Like all defendants, he and his attorneys have a right to view that classified evidence to some degree, as part of the discovery process. But now Trump is whining about him and his attorneys having to travel to a secure location to view it.

To that end, Trump made a court filing requesting that a secure SCIF be installed at his Mar-a-Lago home. Trump doesn’t actually need this, and it’s pretty obviously just an attempt on his part at furthering his delusion that he’s somehow still in office. As part of his unhinged fantasies, he can tell himself that the new SCIF at Mar-a-Lago is there because he’s still the President of the United States.

But Jack Smith is having none of it. He’s firing back with a court filing accusing Trump of seeking “special treatment” and plainly stating that there’s “no need” for a SCIF to be installed. There’s no way to know what this idiot judge Cannon will do with these kinds of rulings. But keep in mind that her ability to help Trump is very narrow and limited. Even if she improperly orders that a SCIF be installed in Trump’s home, it’s not going to magically help him in any real way. The fact that Trump is reduced to these kinds of pointless sideshow battles simply means he has no strategy for actually winning his criminal trials.