Bragg Seeks To Restrict Trump From Seeing Evidence Against Him, Citing Mar-a-Lago Classified Documents Controversy

Bragg only wants to let Trump view certain pieces of evidence if the former president’s lawyer is present as a chaperone.

AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool
President Trump sits at the defense table at a Manhattan court, April 4, 2023. AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool

District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s move to limit President Trump’s access to materials relating to the criminal case against him and mute his public voice before and during the trial suggests that the Manhattan prosecutor is playing hardball against the former president. The government is invoking the Mar-a-Lago classified documents dispute as a reason Mr. Trump can’t be trusted with certain sensitive information 

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