Trump lawyers request Justice Department meeting, say former president "treated unfairly"

Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump have requested a meeting at the Justice Department with Attorney General Merrick Garland, asserting the Republican is being “treated unfairly.”

Trump’s lawyers are concerned the former president is being politically targeted as part of an ongoing investigation about Trump’s purported mishandling of classified documents.

“Unlike President Biden, his son Hunter, and the Biden family, President Trump is being treated unfairly,” said attorneys James Trusty and John Rowley and in a Tuesday letter to DOJ.

The letter was later obtained on the former president’s Truth Social account.

“No President of the United States has ever, in the history of our country, been baselessly investigated in such an outrageous and unlawful fashion,” the letter reads. “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 Department of Justice has not commented on the letter, which came after Tuesday reports surfaced that special counsel Jack Smith was “wrapping up” his investigation into the former president.

The probe began in November after the FBI recovered dozens of boxes of classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August.

Reports indicate Smith and his legal team have spoken to all Mar-a-Lago employees in Palm Beach, Fla.

If special prosecutors determine Trump acted with criminal intent, the former president could result in a second indictment, following Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges in New York related to  an alleged 2016 payment to adult entertainment actress Stormy Daniels.

Meanwhile, federal prosecutors are also expected to reach a decision as to whether they will indict President Biden’s son, Hunter for alleged felony tax and firearm crimes.

That investigation has been overseen by Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, and has experienced political complications as two IRS whistleblowers and FBI agents have come forward and complained the department may be slow rolling the matter.

Investigators and members of Congress have also expressed concern about President Biden, who may have mishandled classified documents from his time as vice president after leaving office in 2017.

The president reportedly turned over sensitive documents from his days as vice president after they were located in his former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.

FBI agents confiscated other documents from the president’s garage of his home in Wilmington, Delaware where he purportedly stores his famous hunter green Stingray convertible Corvette.

Special counsel Robert Hur has been assigned to that case and is looking into whether the president’s acts as vice president violated the Presidential Records Act.