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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.
