No. of Recommendations: 9
he doesn't need to subject himself to the headaches that come with complying with the NYT's requests for discovery about his business ventures.
At what point (iow: how soon) could the NYT start pressing for discovery even if not likely to be granted? Could they, for instance, file a motion tomorrow for discovery of the Jeffrey Epstein files? His bankruptcy proceedings? The contractors he’s stiffed? His conflicts of interest a the self-profiting he’s done since being elected?
Again, even if the court were to turn that down, there would be headlines about it; and in fact if that were to be legal, somehow, I would counsel them to file a new set of discovery options every day until the end of time , or perhaps shortly thereafter.