Donald Trump's lawyers and the special counsel in the classified documents probe will meet for a key hearing Tuesday on how classified materials will be handled at trial.
over his alleged unlawful retention of classified documents and his alleged efforts to obstruct the government's investigation, while Nauta faces six counts of various obstruction-related offenses. Both have pleaded not guilty to all charges.
All of those documents, comprising thousands of pages, will ultimately be relevant to Trump's case and the discovery process, as the government works to determine what it will share with Trump or Nauta's attorneys -- and ultimately a jury. "One is to prevent the practice of 'graymail,' where a defendant could basically threaten to expose secrets at trial in an attempt to coerce the government into dropping the case," Greer said. "The second is to provide an orderly pretrial process for determining the use, relevance, and admissibility of classified information at trial."
Regardless of the merit of that argument, David Aaron, a former national security prosecutor in the Justice Department, said it could add another layer of complexity to an already onerous process.
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