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Serving as the special master in former President Donald Trump’s legal fight over classified documents is a mind-numbing gig one former Department of Justice official can’t imagine anyone is excited about handling.
„No one wants this assignment,“ Barbara McQuade, the former US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, told Insider, describing the slog of sifting through legal files to separate what’s privileged from what’s not as „the worst thing in the world.“
„It’s time consuming. It’s thankless. You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t,“ McQuade said, regardless of the client. She added that the only real upside is „I suppose you get paid.“
The dour assessment doesn’t even take into account how the embattled former president is likely to treat the legal go-between if they dare say that he somehow mishandled a single page of the myriad government records FBI agents recovered from Mar-a-Lago earlier this month.
