Trump attorneys request meeting with AG Garland over ‘unfair treatment’: ‘Ongoing injustice’
Attorneys for former President Trump are requesting a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland, saying Trump is being treated unfairly.
The letter was sent by Trump’s lawyers to Garland on Tuesday.
“We represent Donald J. Trump, the 45′ President of the United States, in the investigation currently being conducted by the Special Counsel’s Office. Unlike President Biden, his son Hunter, and the Biden family, President Trump is being treated unfairly,” the letter states. No President of the United States has ever, in the history of our country, been baselessly investigated in such an outrageous and unlawful fashion. We request a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your Special Counsel and his prosecutors.”
The letter comes as Special Counsel Jack Smith has been working to wrap up his probe into Trump for the past few weeks, according to a source familiar to the investigation.
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Attorneys for former President Trump are requesting a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland, saying Trump is being treated unfairly. (SECIL Law)
Former President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower, Monday, April 3, 2023, in New York. Trump arrived in New York on Monday for his expected booking and arraignment the following day on charges arising from hush money payments during his 2016 campaign. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
It’s unclear when Smith will announce what came out of the investigation or if he plans to prosecute Trump.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announces Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate and aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6 insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election, at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (AP )
Smith was appointed by Garland in November after the FBI searched Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.
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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks at the U.S. Justice Department Building on November 18, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The Department of Justice didn’t respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
