The letter Donald Trump posted Tuesday night showing his attorneys demanding a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland shows Trump's lawyers are "desperate" in their handling of special counsel Jack Smith's probe, according to the former president's biographer.
Appearing on the 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, Tim O'Brien, author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, was asked what he thought of the letter, in which Trump's lawyers, John Rowley and Jim Trusty, say Trump is being "treated unfairly" in the investigations into his role in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, as well as the documents improperly kept at Mar-a-Lago.
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"I think they're desperate," O'Brien said to the host. "This is not an astute or strategic action by lawyers who feel like they are in control of a narrative or that they are in control of where this particular investigation is heading. They are doing what Trump has always done. They are trying to politicize an investigation and they are not responsive around the law or the rule of law."
O'Brien also called into question the narrative that Trump can easily beat back all types of investigations.
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"Trump, for all of the mythology around Trump having nine lives in terms of being held accountable in the courtroom, he's never in his entire life faced the kind of heavyweight investigations that surround him on a number of fronts by very purposeful prosecutors who are assembling the fact pattern and trying to determine whether he committed financial fraud, whether he tried to overturn the 2020 election illegally, whether he abused the power of his office in terms of mishandling classified documents, and on and on," he added.
For their part, O'Brien said, prosecutors are in a time crunch.
"I think there is some urgency on the part of the prosecutors now to bring some of these things to a close so they are not occurring and the meat of the prosecution is not occurring during the primary season next year at least some of the initial filings," he said. "And I think there is a lot of desperation in the Trump camp about all of this."
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