Trump’s classified-documents defense keeps leaning on immunity that looks thinner by the day
Trump’s lawyers continued pressing an immunity-centered defense in the classified-documents case, a legal strategy that underscored how badly the former president needed the case to be reframed as presidential conduct rather than a records-and-security mess. The problem for Trump is that the core facts remain ugly and concrete: federal prosecutors say sensitive documents were stored in insecure locations at Mar-a-Lago, and the case is already forcing him to argue that he could effectively convert government records into personal property simply by acting as president. That is not just a courtroom theory. It is a public admission that his defense depends on stretching executive power to cover conduct that would look bad for any other defendant.