In a motion requesting a protective order ahead of the Tuesday hearing to hash out issues over the evidence in disgraced former President Trump and his minion Walt Nauta’s upcoming trial on espionage act violations and other charges, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team indicated there’s some classified evidence prosecutors want to keep away from the demented orange defendant during discovery. They’ll still let his lawyers see it, so it’s not like this is going to be any sort of constitutional issue. Naturally Team Orange still complained over it.

“On July 12, 2023, the Government sent to counsel for the Defendants the proposed protective order. On July 14, 2023, counsel for the Defendants informed the Government that they intend to object to certain provisions of the proposed protective order, but did not specify any such provisions. Because the entry of a protective order is necessary to provide any classified discovery to the Defendants, the Government respectfully requests that the Court require the Defendants to file on an expedited schedule any objections to the proposed protective order,” Smith’s team wrote.

The proposed protective order itself was not, to our knowledge made public so we don’t know what was so objectionable to Trump. Neither does Smith’s team, as they wrote above. If we had to guess, Trump exploded at his lawyers when they told him about this, simply because he’s mentally incapable of countenancing any sort of restriction or imposition on him, and now they need to spend the next few days coming up with some sort of plausible-ish premise to base their opposition on.