Three lawyers representing the former president spent nearly two hours there after requesting a meeting to discuss their concerns about the department’s handling of the investigation.
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump went to the Justice Department on Monday, two weeks after requesting a meeting with Attorney General Merrick B. Garland to discuss their concerns about the special counsel investigations into Mr. Trump’s conduct, according to two people familiar with the matter.
It was unclear who the lawyers met with — a person familiar with the situation said it was neither Mr. Garland nor Lisa O. Monaco, the deputy attorney general — or what precise subjects they discussed. But the visit came as the former president’s legal team concluded that prosecutors in the special counsel’s office were approaching the end of their inquiry into Mr. Trump’s handling of classified materials and were nearing a decision about whether charges should be filed, the people said.
The lawyers — James Trusty, John Rowley and Lindsay Halligan — left the Justice Department after nearly two hours. They declined to speak to reporters.
Tim Parlatore, a lawyer who resigned last month from representing Mr. Trump, said that the former president’s legal team has harbored worries for some time about how prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, have conducted the classified document inquiry.
