Trump lawyers allege prosecutorial misconduct in classified documents case: report

Lawyers representing Donald Trump during a meeting with a top Justice Department official on Thursday alleged that prosecutors have engaged in misconduct, The Guardian reports.

Trump lawyers Jim Trusty, John Rowley and Lindsay Halligan met with a senior official in the deputy attorney general’s office for around 90 minutes, the report said.

The attorneys also made the “general case” that Trump should not be charged, according to the report, which notes the complaint is unlikely to delay the investigation.

The attorneys, who had weeks earlier requested a meeting with top federal law enforcement officials, were spotted entering the DOJ headquarters by CBS News cameras.

The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell writes that, “The exact allegations are not clear, but Trump’s lawyers for weeks have complained privately that Jay Bratt, the chief of the counterintelligence and espionage section at the justice department, once sought to induce a witness into confirming something they declined to, one of the people said.”

Trusty and Rowley, in a letter to the DOJ, said: “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 meeting with prosecutors comes as a grand jury reconvenes in its investigation of claims that Trump kept classified documents in his Mar-a-Lago home.

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