Lawrence O’Donnell Spots New ‘Jewel Of Trump Lawyer Incompetence’

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell was flabbergasted by a element in a brand new courtroom submitting from particular counsel Jack Smith within the categorised paperwork case in opposition to Donald Trump and two co-defendants.

According to the Friday submitting, an legal professional for Carlos De Oliveira, a co-defendant and upkeep supervisor at Mar-a-Lago, stated he was unable to assessment CCTV footage the prosecution had obtained from the Trump Organization and supplied throughout discovery as a result of he didn’t personal or have entry to a laptop computer or desktop pc.

De Oliveira’s legal professional stated he had been making an attempt to assessment the whole lot of the federal government’s discovery paperwork on a handheld pill, the submitting said.

To resolve the difficulty, the federal government provided to mortgage the legal professional a laptop computer, and “hand-delivered a computer to him,” in keeping with the submitting.

The prosecution stated it has since provided help to the legal professional, “providing tips and examples, and offering to set up calls,” every time he has flagged technical points.

“The unprofessionalism and incompetence of the Trump team of lawyers continues to amaze,” O’Donnell stated Monday on “The Last Word,” describing the laptop computer anecdote as “a new jewel of Trump lawyer incompetence.”

“So Jack Smith’s team of FBI agents and prosecutors has to serve as the Genius Bar for at least one Trump lawyer who doesn’t even own a computer,” he stated.

Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor, informed O’Donnell it was “pretty poor form” and he hadn’t seen something prefer it earlier than.

Smith’s submitting was in response to a movement to compel discovery from Trump’s attorneys, who argued that the prosecution had didn’t share sure supplies that they claimed would present political bias behind the investigation.

Prosecutors forcefully rejected these assertions, saying the protection sought “non-discoverable materials based on speculative, unsupported, and false theories of political bias and animus” and declaring the prosecution had gone to nice lengths to facilitate entry to discovery — therefore the laptop computer element.

Trump is charged alongside De Oliveira and Walt Nauta, an aide, for his dealing with of categorised paperwork taken to his Florida membership after leaving workplace.

Watch O’Donnell’s commentary beneath.