Judge rules to push back start of the NY document falsification trial while new motions are being considered...
This is a murky issue and I am still not 100% sure what all of this means. According to the story there were some documents supposedly requested from the Southern District of New York by the Manhattan prosecutor that were either denied or delayed indefinitely, but ultimately Bragg suggested that they were never sent to him even though he requested them.
Then the Trump team subpoenaed the same documents from the same people in January and lo and behold the SDNY sent them the documents. All 30,000 plus of the documents. Now the Trump team demanded to know why Bragg has had all of this time to gather this information and turn it over, but it was ultimately up to them to get them on their own.
It would seem like in a defensive mechanism that Bragg then requested (because of course he is a nice guy) that everything get pushed back so the defense could review these documents.
Now what could the SDNY US attorney's office have that would be relevant to this trial? Well, they were the ones who first looked into this case and decided not to prosecute. While nobody is saying exactly what these 30,000 documents are, I would assume that they would not be helpful to the Bragg prosecution or he would not have let them to just sit for this long. The fact that the Trump team took the initiative to subpoena them is an indication that they might be helpful to them. So I am only speculating, but my best guess is that the documents do contain the reasoning for why they never pressed the issue. These could fall under the umbrella of exonerating type documents that the Trump team could argue were withheld.
Bragg of course, will argue that he did not have them in his possession, so he was not at fault for not turning them over. The murky question would be why his office (who did decide to charge Trump) would not have reviewed the Federal Attorney's office reasoning as to why they decided not to prosecute him. I would guess that this reasoning is in these documents. Wouldn't not investigating something that you know would be exonerating be similar to not turning over exonerating evidence? Admittedly this is just another murky question regarding all of these murky criminal charges against Trump.
Again, this is all speculation. The documents might be only somewhat relevant. Maybe Bragg did request them and maybe the SDNY had a reason not to turn them over. Maybe it is just Trump using it to delay. But those seem to be a lot of assumptions that make far less sense than the alternative that requires very little assumption that isn't logical. Occam's Razor suggests my speculation might be close to the truth.
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