Trump’s Attorneys in Closed Hearing After Contempt Reports (2)

The day after Donald Trump effectively gave up his court fight over government documents seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago home, his lawyers were in a Washington courthouse amid reports the Justice Department has asked for the former president to be held in contempt in connection with the records probe.

None of the attorneys – Evan Corcoran, Jim Trusty, and Tim Parlatore – would say why they were in court Friday. Corcoran, Trusty, and Parlatore met up in the courthouse cafeteria before the lawyers walked up to an office suite where US District Chief Judge Beryl Howell has ...