'Preposterous legal argument' from Trump team is 'dead on arrival': former federal prosecutor

Legal analyst and former Federal Bureau of Investigation General Counsel Andrew Weissmann on Thursday slammed Donald Trump's legal team representing him in his DC election interference case over their attempt to delay the trial once again.

Speaking with Weissman, MSNBC's Alicia Menendez during the latest episode of Deadline: White House noted, "Breaking today from NBC News, 'Attorneys for former President Donald Trump are once again pushing to delay his federal election interference trial telling a judge that special counsel jack smith and federal prosecutors should be held in contempt for filing motions ahead of deadlines and continuing to provide Trump's team with discovery. John Lauro, a Trump attorney, who has argued that Trump's election interference trial should be delayed until 2026 filed a motion Thursday, calling for the special counsel to be held in contempt for what they called 'an unlawful production of discovery' accusing federal prosecutors of partisan-driven misconduct.' Andrew, any merit here?"

Weissmann replied, "Let's just step back for a moment and just take a focus on what they are arguing. A defendant is arguing that they're upset that they are getting too much discovery too soon. What defendant in the world has ever made that argument? I mean, this is a motion that is sort of dead on arrival, and it is written for an audience out of the courtroom. Very much like a lot of the legal briefs that we have seen from Donald Trump's team. It is filled with rhetoric not aimed at the judges in the courtroom. This is really a preposterous legal argument. You know that they are trying to satisfy their client. They are playing to their base, as we have talked about, sort of using theses legal proceedings to get messages out in terms of the political realm. But as a legal matter, the idea that you're getting discovery too soon is, I think, going to be something that Judge [Tanya] Chutkan says is flabbergasting as an issue. And the idea that you're going to seek a contempt order? Usually the parties on both sides only do that where it's truly egregious conduct, so this is dead on arrival.

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