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According to criminal defense attorney Shan Wu, the recent legal filing from Donald Trump’s lawyers objecting to the Department of Justice’s counter-argument on appointing a special master and what constitutes a “classified” document is an embarrassment to the legal profession.
In a column for the Daily Beast, the attorney who specializes in white-collar crime claims that, from what he has seen from the dueling motions, the former president’s lawyers are overmatched and have no clue how to defend their client.
Summing up the new filing, Wu asserted that it “smacks of an extremism and desperation perhaps born of having been maneuvered into a legal corner by Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department.”
Using his own experience, Wu suggested that the tactics being used by Trump’s lawyers are laughable — such as arguing facts that are indisputable — and are signs that they have no defense.
“These aren’t the usual ways of trying to head off criminal charges,” he argued. “The usual way of defending against criminal investigations is for defense lawyers to do their own investigation and try to convince prosecutors that they are barking up the wrong tree.”
