Not only that, he must do so immediately after asserting that defense.
His lawyers are arguing, without a single thread of authority, that he should be allowed to keep hiding these “reliance” / advice documents until the eve of trial, in March 2024.
The able USDC Judge Chutkan is having none of that, as it is a transparent attempt to knock the trial date off the rails, by dumping thousands of documents on Jack Smith, right on the eve of trial.
If such documents are out there — in order to win (as the able judge notes, near the top of her first page) Tangerine will have to show that he disclosed ALL relevant facts to counsel. The reason she mentions that on the first page of her opinion tonight… is to (not so) subtly remind these lawyers that they will have to say they were aware that he was lying about whether the election had in fact been “stolen“, when he tried to order Mike Pence not to certify the results on the morning of January 6, 2021.
And… any lawyer who is willing to say they told Tangerine his actions were lawful, even though they KNEW that HE knew he didn’t have the votes in various states to overturn (Georgia most notably, as he is separately charged with felonies there now — on that score)… would themselves be putting their law license in danger by saying that was the advice they gave him. [Eastman is already in that pickle, and this might implicate several others.]
So she is broadly hinting… that Trump will attempt to drag lawyers into the dock with him, if they sign on for this (his) nonsense.
And, most of all — she doesn’t want to spend time (potentially delaying the trial date) while Jack Smith forcibly drags the “reliance” documents from the lawyers’ hands. They must turn them over very shortly — if he’s going to try that gambit.
Cool. Cool.
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