Trump lawyers press federal prosecutors to drop classified docs probe
By Josh Christenson
June 5, 2023 4:32pm
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump met with Justice Department prosecutors on Monday as a special counsel nears a decision on whether to charge Trump with mishandling classified documents recovered from his Mar-a-Lago estate last year.
The 76-year-old Trump’s legal team — attorneys John Rowley, James Trusty and Lindsey Halligan — spent close to two hours at DOJ headquarters in Washington two weeks after requesting a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland to address alleged “misconduct and overreach” by the special counsel, Jack Smith.
According to the Washington Post, the trio were joined by Smith — but neither Garland nor his top deputy, Lisa Monaco, were present.
A spokesman for Smith declined to comment.
A Trump spokesperson had told The Post last week that the lawyers planned to share with Garland “specific examples of prosecutorial misconduct and overreach.”
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