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Trump lawyers respond to Jack Smith’s ‘absurd’ scolding

Left: Former President Donald Trump, center, sits at the defense table at New York Supreme Court, Dec. 7, 2023, in New York City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, Pool, File)./Right: Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File).

Left: Former President Donald Trump, center, sits at the defense table at New York Supreme Court, Dec. 7, 2023, in New York City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, Pool, File)./Right: Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File).

One day after Jack Smith ripped them for insisting on “naming all witnesses” in the government’s Mar-a-Lago case regardless of potential safety consequences, defense lawyers for former President Donald Trump called it “absurd” and “baseless” to say that they don’t care.

Attorneys Todd Blanche and Christopher Kise on Thursday filed a two-page reply that said they are simply “following the law,” unlike the Special Counsel’s Office — and, if anything, Jack Smith’s “generalized,” “cursory,” non-compelling arguments in favor of redacting or sealing names in defense pretrial motions and exhibits are to blame for the standoff on the issue.

“The Defendants take no position on any particular request for redaction of certain information. However, similar to earlier failed attempts by the Special Counsel’s Office to redact or seal public materials in this case […] the Office offers only sparse information and generalized arguments in support of the most recent sealing motion,” the lawyers told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. “These cursory references to broad classes of information that the Office claims raise hypothetical concerns do not ‘set forth ‘the factual and legal basis for departing from’ the court’s open-access policy.””

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