'Borderline frivolous' Trump motions in classified docs case carved up by legal expert

Former Obama White House ethics czar Norm Eisen was disgusted by former President Donald Trump's latest claims to protect himself from being held accountable for taking documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago resort and then refusing to turn them over when given a lawful subpoena for their return.

Speaking to CNN, Eisen explained that Judge Aileen Cannon "has had a history of really outrageous partiality to Donald Trump."

Eisen then went on to say that the motions Trump and his lawyers are bringing to court are "borderline frivolous" and he predicted that even Cannon might have a hard time buying into them, lest she get reversed on appeal.

"Don't take my word for it," continued Eisen. "The extremely conservative 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees her, has slapped her down not once but twice for showing special partiality to Donald Trump during the investigative stage of this case."

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He explained that he could see "entertaining these legal arguments" as part of some test to the legal system, but they don't necessitate anything beyond the motion or a short hearing.

"But setting an entire day for these flimsy make-weight arguments?" he continued. "If Judge Cannon violates the law here, she should expect the 11th Circuit will look over her shoulder again, for a third time, because there is no legal basis for these arguments."

Eisen is among several experts warning that Cannon's decision to legitimize such arguments is "frightening."

"The Presidential Records Act doesn't support the interpretation and almost the perversion that Donald Trump is trying to give to it," MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin said Thursday morning. "That the Presidential Records Act would hold that any number of the things Donald Trump took with him are inherently presidential and should have gone to the National Archives. There was a process to follow."

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