“To have – I mean, I have been around prosecution and criminal justice for 30-something years, longer than I want to admit maybe, but to have any Executive Branch official publicly announce, I’m ready to unseal these documents at the expense of any defendant, much less like a marginalized defendant, any defendant is an amazing moment. It is an extraordinary moment. It calls out for some questioning of what the motivation is here and whether or not we, as a criminal justice system, should allow completely unfettered conduct to go unchecked, unobserved, unmonitored.”
“Now, as it turns out, our client was perfectly happy with the notion of transparency. He doesn’t just say it in his speeches, he actually means it and says, ‘If they want to let that stuff loose, let it go loose; how about the affidavit too,’ and that will be the subject of another conversation, at some point, about the affidavit. But you have this selective leaking and disclosing on behalf of the Government” said Trump lawyer Chris Kise in court on Thursday, per a transcript.