Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Tuesday requested a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland over the work of a special counsel who is handling two investigations into the former president.
“No President of the United States has ever, in the history of our country, been baselessly investigated in such an outrageous and unlawful fashion,” attorneys John Rowley and James Trusty wrote in a letter dated May 23 and addressed to Garland. Trump posted the letter on Truth Social, his social media platform, late Tuesday.
As the Trump team’s latest response to one of Trump’s legal challenges, the former president’s lawyers asked for a meeting with Garland “at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your Special Counsel and his prosecutors.”…