Help, explain this: Trump lawyers hire outside team to search four properties for classified info

[Beastly Boy]

6. The lawyers covering their asses, probably with Trump's covert consent.

If the search team claims they found nothing, and the lawyers state in court that the search team found nothing, and later it turns out the search team "missed" a few classified documents, trump's lawyers don't have to worry about facing any consequences (like lying under oath) themselves. They can always blame the search team for being incompetent, and paint themselves as victims of their incompetence.

The search team may lose their credentials, if they have any, and/or pay a fine. A criminal case against them is very unlikely: this is a contractual matter between Trump's lawyers and the search team which is covered under civil jurisprudence, where the aggrieved party in this case would be Trump's lawyers, and they could easily decide not to press charges. And that would likely be a civil offense, not criminal one anyway.

Bottom line: Trump gets to yap about witch hunt on the basis of this search for months, and a delay. His lawyers can claim in court that there are no classified documents found with impunity. And the search team gets fined with no jail time as the worst case scenario. I can't see the fine schedule for incompetence being too taxing.

It's a stunt. I would guess FBI has their own search warrants ready and will put them to good use regardless of how this stunt gets carried out.