Judge orders Trump lawyer to hand over documents, testify in classified documents investigation

A Washington D.C. Circuit judge ordered Evan Corcoran, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, to surrender documents related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents by Trump on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell rejected Trump’s lawyers’ appeal of a motion for Corcoran “to comply with the district court’s March 17, 2023, order to produce documents,” according to a tweet by Alan Feuer.

A story by the Washington Examiner claimed that Howell wrote in a sealed filing that the prosecution had provided sufficient evidence showing that Trump misled his own attorneys. This means attorney-client privilege could not apply to certain interactions between Trump and Corcoran. The judge’s new ruling required Corcoran to turn over evidence because his legal services may have facilitated a crime.

The material that Corcoran must surrender includes Justice Department notes, transcripts of recordings, and invoices, a source told The Washington Post. The new ruling came only a day after Trump’s legal team attempted an appeal, with middle-of-the-night deadlines given in the dispute.