The attorneys for former President Donald Trump are contacting Attorney General Merrick Garland, claiming that Trump is being treated unjustly.

On Tuesday, Trump’s counsel sent a letter to Garland. It states:

“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. 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.”

According to a source with knowledge of the investigation, the letter arrives as Special Counsel Jack Smith attempts to conclude his investigation into the Trump classified materials issue.

It is unknown when Smith will release the investigation’s findings or whether he will charge Trump.

In November 2022, after the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on August 8, 2022 for missing sensitive documents, Garland appointed Smith as special counsel.

“Several former FBI agents, prosecutors, and CIA officials have reacted with shock to reports the federal bureau was “afraid” to investigate Donald Trump’s handling of classified materials,” Newsweek reported in March.

According to a report by The Washington Post, the FBI was hesitant to raid the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 to recover long-sought-after sensitive materials and instead wanted Trump to voluntarily hand them over.

The report, citing unnamed sources, said that some FBI agents in the Washington field office wanted to close the classified material investigation in June 2022 following an assurance from Trump’s legal team that all documents that needed to be handed to the National Archives and Records Administration in January 2021 had been returned.

Republicans have long raised concerns about the “weaponization” of the federal government under the Biden administration and have created a special panel to look into such issues. The latest report, critics say, suggests the opposite is true: that Trump’s attacks had “chilled” attempts to investigate him. CONTINUE READING…