Former President Donald Trump said his lawyers warned federal prosecutors Thursday that another round of criminal charges against him would be unjustified and would destroy an already divided nation.
Former President Donald Trump said his lawyers warned federal prosecutors Thursday that another round of criminal charges against him would be unjustified and would destroy an already divided nation.
Mr. Trump, who is facing possible federal criminal charges for his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, disclosed the meeting his legal team had with Justice Department prosecutors in Washington, where a grand jury is mulling what would be a third stack of indictments against him.
“My attorneys had a productive meeting with the DOJ this morning, explaining in detail that I did nothing wrong, was advised by many lawyers and that an indictment would only further destroy our Country,” Mr. Trump wrote on his social media site.
The warning to special counsel Jack Smith, the federal prosecutor overseeing the Trump probe, comes amid increasing criticism that President Biden’s Justice Department is utilizing a two-tiered system to persecute the former president while offering a sweetheart plea deal for Mr. Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, over charges he failed to pay taxes and lied on a firearm background check form.
The plea deal, which spared Hunter Biden felony charges or jail time, unraveled in federal court on Wednesday after U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika forced prosecutors to declare he would remain under investigation and could face charges related to lobbying for a foreign government.
Hunter Biden’s legal team balked, revealing they were informed the plea deal would provide the president’s son with “global” immunity from additional charges.
The courtroom rift scuttled the plea deal and exposed what IRS whistleblowers had revealed earlier this month in congressional testimony: That the president’s son had quietly received favorable treatment for his crimes.
New charges against Mr. Trump are only likely to increase the view among Republican voters that the former president, now the leading contender for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, is being politically persecuted.
