Updated May 24, 2023 4:48am EDT
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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Tuesday discussed two ongoing special counsel-led investigations into President Trump, amid reports that special counsel Jack Smith was closing an investigation into one of them. I wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking for a meeting to discuss.
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President Trump shared a copy of the letter sent by attorneys John Lowry and James Trusty on his platform Truth Social without further comment.
The letter claimed that Trump was “unfairly treated”, “unlike” President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
His lawyers echoed many of Trump’s allegations about the investigation, saying it was “outrageous and illegal.”
The letter concludes by requesting a meeting with Mr. Garland as soon as possible “to discuss the ongoing misconduct being committed by the special counsel and his prosecutors.”
Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is leading an investigation into both Trump’s handling of confidential documents after he left office and his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results, said in the letter that Trump’s lawyers It was not specified which of the two investigations they were concerned about.
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In the letter, Lowry and Trusty said, “No president of the United States in the history of our country has been investigated in such an outrageous, unlawful and baseless manner.”
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early Tuesday, wall street journal Smith’s investigation into the mishandling of classified documents recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion is nearly complete, it said. Smith’s prosecutors have reportedly interviewed nearly all of the staff working at the former president’s private resort in Florida and have begun grand jury interviews. The report says that Trump’s aides hope to indict the former president and have begun looking for ways to raise money for the development.
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Special Counsel Closing Trump Mar-a-Lago Investigation (Wall Street Journal)
Trump accuses ‘election interference’ of March 25 trial date dropped during GOP primaries (Forbes)
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