Former President Donald Trump's legal team purportedly leaned on the Secret Service as a cudgel in a failed bid to relocate the deposition of his hotly anticipated appearance before the New York Attorney General's Office last month, though the agency disputed the Trump legal team's account.
Lawyers for Trump said the agency harbored security concerns about transporting the former president to the attorney general's office and pitched Trump Tower as a more suitable destination for his deposition instead, multiple sources told the Daily Beast.But the request, which came through correspondence with the attorney general's office, was disputed by Secret Service, which did not relay any such concerns to state investigators directly, the report noted.
In the past, Trump has advocated that high-profile deals and legal wranglings be conducted on his own turf, giving him a home-field advantage of sorts, associates of the former president told the news outlet. Ultimately, the gambit failed, and Trump underwent a deposition at New York Attorney General Letitia Jame's office, where he repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination and refrained from answering an onslaught of questions.