The Looming Standoff in Trump’s Classified Documents Case
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Earlier this week, the federal judge overseeing the case concerning former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents issued a ruling that many legal experts found odd—a refrain heard repeatedly this week by The Washington Post reporter Devlin Barrett–the author of the newspaper’s “Trump Trials” newsletter–who joins The New Abnormal this week to discuss what happens next in the contentious case.
Judge Aileen Cannon has asked both sides to prepare for a trial in which jury instructions include one of two options: Either jurors will be “permitted to examine” every top secret record Trump allegedly swiped to determine whether it should be classified as his “personal” property, or jurors must be told that “a president has sole authority… to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency.”