Trump’s team handed another small win in his classified documents case

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Florida just handed the former president’s team more time.

Judge Aileen Cannon just removed a deadline for his team to submit a key filing, which was originally set for this coming Thursday. That key filing was a list ofclassified materials they plan to present as evidence at trial.

This is a win for Trump in the political sense, as it makes it unlikely that he will go on trial for mishandling classified materials before the November presidential election.

Trump’s team has pursued a strategy of pushing back deadlines and slow-walking the various legal cases he finds himself involved in. Every delay should be an advantage to the former president.

Yet at the same time, Trump continues to complain publicly about being tied up in court in order to fire up his base. The four criminal prosecutions he currently faces feed into a victimhood mentality that helped him steamroll his opponents in the 2024 Republican primary, as Republican voters bought into his claims of being unfairly targeted by the legal system (under a Democratic president, no less).

Meanwhile, new unsealed court documents in the Florida case first reported by CNN this week reveal the extent of the involvement of Walt Nauta, Trump’s valet, in the storage and handling of classified documents found at the Mar-a-Lago resort and estate in Palm Beach.

The documents reveal some of Nauta’s answers to questions from FBI agents investigating the case.

Referring to the effort by the National Archives to obtain some classified documents during Trump’s chaotic move-out process after January 6th, Nauta told investigators: “What I recall is every time he would leave for the evening, they would come up, and