In a new filing, Trump's legal team argues that they can't retain a vendor because there are too many files and too little time to review them.
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice said that the vendors simply refused to be engaged by the team.
Trump's legal team said in their filing that they needed until October to get the job done because it was more complex.
The FBI retrieved close to 11,000 White House documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home after executing a search warrant. The Justice Department is looking into whether Trump broke the law when he held onto the documents. Trump denied doing anything wrong.
The DOJ was sued by Trump's team asking for a third party to review the documents. The deadline for Dearie is November 30. There are delays in the process of getting the documents for Dearie digitally.
The problem is compounded by the fact that the Government chose not to include an accurate number when the counsel referred to 11,000 pages or more. The 11,000 documents the Government mentioned are close to 200,000 pages.
According to the former president's legal team, the number of pages and the time it took for them to be scanned was too short a reason why vendors wouldn't work with him.
Many of the government's selected vendors have declined the potential engagement because of the estimated volume, according to Trump's lawyers. The Government's proposed schedule can't be met by seasoned IT professionals who work on large-scale document productions.
The DOJ asked Raymond Dearie to give them more time to turn over documents. None of the five vendors they suggested to digitize the cache of documents were willing to be involved with the case, according to federal prosecutors.
Dearie has pushed back on some of the claims made in the case. The Trump team has been asked by Dearie to provide proof that the FBI planted evidence during its search of Mar-a-Lago, which Trump has claimed.
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