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Bondi isn’t Gaetz but don't 'recalibrate' — this can't be 'new normal': Ex-prosecutor

A former Florida Republican said he's breathing a "sigh of relief" that Pam Bondi is now Donald Trump's new attorney general choice, noting that she's not only qualified, she hasn't been embroiled in any sex scandals. The previous appointee was former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who resigned from Congress ahead of an Ethics Committee vote on whether to release a report …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Legal expert flags first things autocratic Trump may 'go after' to 'chill' opposition

Raw Story

One of Donald Trump's responses to special counsel Robert Mueller's appointment to investigate the Russian involvement in the 2016 election was to lash out at those he perceived as enemies against him. MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace asked former Mueller senior prosecutor Andrew Weissmann about what would happen to those in Attorney General Merrick Garland's Justice Department. He cautioned that the incoming …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

'Body blow': Expert disturbed by 'really shocking evidence' against Trump in Jan. 6 case

Raw Story

The narrative laid out in special counsel Jack Smith's latest filing in the Jan. 6 case should disqualify Donald Trump from holding elected office ever again, according to a former federal prosecutor. U.S. District judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed the 165-page filing in which Smith's office describes the former president's pressure campaign on then-vice president Mike Pence and other Republicans around …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Ex-prosecutor flabbergasted that Trump thinks 'people stupid enough' to buy core message

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A former top prosecutor of organized crime at the Justice Department was left flabbergasted at the message Donald Trump shared at his roundtable with the Fraternal Order of Police on Friday in North Carolina. Andrew Weissmann, who has left the DOJ for New York University, confessed his shock that the FOP endorsed Trump despite the ex-president being a convicted felon. …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Donald Trump may have just broken the law — again: legal expert

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Former top Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann observed that Donald Trump has broken the law again, but noted it is a rarely enforced law. Trump spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, two U.S. sources who were briefed on the call told Axios on Wednesday One source claimed Trump's call …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Aileen Cannon just gave Hunter Biden a massive gift: legal expert

Raw Story

Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller's team, tore apart Judge Aileen Cannon's recent ruling to dismiss Donald Trump's documents case on Monday. Speaking about the matter on MSNBC, Weissmann explained that Cannon is restricting the executive branch's power, and it isn't within her scope as a Florida district judge to do something like that. There is …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Ex-FBI counsel rips immunity ruling as 'terrible decision made up of whole cloth'

Raw Story

Concluding a complex discussion of the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling that handed Donald Trump limited immunity from being prosecuted, former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann called out the court's conservative justices for making up the law as they go along. "I think there's a big picture and a small picture," he explained. "So there is this ability to have White …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Did Joe Biden promise to be a one-term president in 2020? Well ...

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It all started, as the most exciting moments in Western thought tend to do, with a provocative but well-argued column in Slate. Raw Story’s Matthew Chapman called the idea that Biden had committed to serving only one term a “myth,” and Semafor’s Dave Weigel quoted Chapman while bringing up the Mandela effect, which is so named for people who swear …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

'He's not capable of it': Ex-prosecutor reveals what will trip Trump up at sentencing

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Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman said that one major thing will trip up Donald Trump when he faces his sentencing. Read Also: 8 ways convicted felon Donald Trump doesn't become president Litman told host Nicolle Wallace that certain countries will not allow Trump to enter them as a felon anymore. Wallace wondered which Trump would "show up" to the meeting …

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7 months ago

Legal expert draws 'direct line' between Justice Alito's MAGA flag and Trump immunity case

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is under fire after the flag outside of his home was flown upside down, a symbol adopted by the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rallygoers. "If you want to connect the image that you saw, you don’t have to look far," said former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann. Wallace said that the "upside-down flag is …

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7 months, 1 week ago

'Getting brutal': Trump's lawyer accused of firing 'totally misleading' questions at Cohen

Raw Story

Legal analyst Andrew Weissmann was bothered by one line of questioning of Michael Cohen he said Donald Trump's lawyer was twisting out of context as cross-examination started in the hush money trial Tuesday. MSNBC co-host Chris Jansing hushed the debating panel as they heard reports coming from the courtroom, saying, "It's getting a little brutal." Inside the court, Jansing said …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Legal expert trashes Trump lawyer's first question for Michael Cohen

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Donald Trump's Manhattan hush money trial began the afternoon session on Tuesday with cross-examination of Michael Cohen — and, right out of the gate, the defense lawyer wanted to ask about insults. Todd Blanche, who has taken a back seat to Trump's other lawyer, Susan Necheles in recent days, began his questions by asking, "Mr. Cohen, my name is Todd …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Longtime Michael Cohen friend thinks he still has 'sick affection' for Trump

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Michael Cohen has described his 15 years with Donald Trump as akin to being in a cult and, after conversations with him, longtime friend Donny Deutsch agrees — describing his relationship as being akin to Stockholm Syndrome. Talking about the work Cohen did to help try and save Trump from bad press around the allegations, the former president's ex lawyer …

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7 months, 1 week ago

'Shocker': Legal expert tears apart Trump team's latest gag order argument

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Former President Donald Trump, and some people in his orbit, have taken to demanding to know why his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen has not been subject to a gag order in the Manhattan criminal hush money case, whereas Trump has. But it doesn't really work that way, legal expert Lisa Rubin explained to MSNBC's Joy Reid, in a …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Ex-Prosecutor Breaks Down Possible ‘Calculated’ Move From Trump’s Legal Team

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Thursday explained why he believes Donald Trump’s legal team made a “calculated” move in not objecting to the more salacious details that adult film actor Stormy Daniels gave in testimony about having sex with the former president. Trump lawyer Susan Necheles is “really experienced,” Weissmann told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. They wanted …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Damning evidence in Trump trial could be gleaned from previous Stormy Daniels lawsuit: report

Raw Story

Former top prosecutor and law school professor Andrew Weissmann pointed to another case in which Donald Trump gave a deposition confessing to reimbursing hush money payments paid to cover up an affair — and argued it could be damning evidence in his latest trial. Trump sat in a New York courtroom for the 13th day of trial Tuesday, accused of …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump lawyers scramble as trial witnesses blow up Michael Cohen strategy: expert

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Former top Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann claimed Tuesday that the witnesses being called in the Donald Trump hush money trial are confirming every detail of Michael Cohen's story — with bombshell accuracy. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Weissmann said testimony from David Pecker, the ex-publisher of the National Enquirer, was "so powerful I think we have to recalibrate the …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump criminal trial: How the former president’s tendency to act like a mob boss is being revealed.

Slate

Read our ongoing coverage of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial here. In previous testimony in Trump’s civil fraud trial, Cohen described Trump as directing his minions much like a “mob boss.” Daniels has asserted that she and her daughter were threatened to keep quiet about her affair with Trump as far back in 2011, by someone she said she assumed …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

How National Enquirer witness just revealed Trump’s felony crime: legal analyst

Raw Story

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker shared the information that elevates Donald Trump's criminal charges from misdemeanors to felonies on Thursday, ex -Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann revealed. Speaking to MSNBC after Pecker broke from testifying, Weissmann noted that violation of campaign finance laws elevates the falsification of business records charges from misdemeanors to felonies. Though the charges are usually …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

'Very good news' for Jack Smith as Arizona indictment puts 'pressure' on Trump allies

Raw Story

The new indictments in Arizona against several of former President Donald Trump's allies is not just bad news for them, but a significant opportunity for special counsel Jack Smith in his prosecution of former President Donald Trump for the 2020 election plot, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said on MSNBC Wednesday. The newly dropped indictment names a number of Republican …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

Ex-prosecutor highlights Trump's odd reaction to witness hanging him out to dry

Raw Story

Donald Trump has spent the past several years lashing out at his former lawyer. The first two days of the trial, former AMI chief David Pecker revealed details about the so-called "catch and kill" operations that he and Trump cooked up as early as the fall of 2015 to help aid him in the run for president. There's also the …

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8 months ago

Judge must punish Trump 'like a child' to prevent 'mistrial by antics': expert

Raw Story

Donald Trump repeatedly violated the gag order in his criminal trial just hours ahead of a contempt of court hearing, and a legal expert called on the judge to put him in "time out." It’s a very unfair situation, that I can tell you.” Former federal prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann told The Daily Beast that Trump was …

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8 months ago

Ex-Prosecutor Spots A Big 'Oops' In Trump's Likely Legal Defense

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Sunday suggested Donald Trump will contradict himself with a defense in his hush money trial. “Oops,” Weissmann wrote on X of what he predicted would be a faux pas from the presumptive GOP nominee’s legal team. He said: “Trump’s latest defense, which we will see at trial I’m sure, that the …

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8 months ago

Here's the moment when Judge Juan Merchan 'lost confidence' in Trump lawyer: ex-prosecutor

Raw Story

Three days into Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial and one of his attorneys has lost the judge's trust, according to Andrew Weissmann, former senior prosecutor on Robert Mueller's special counsel team. During an appearance on MSNBC, Weissmann said it was astonishing that prosecutors convinced Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to box out former President Donald Trump's attorney Todd …

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Bondi isn’t Gaetz but don't 'recalibrate' — this can't be 'new normal': Ex-prosecutor

Legal expert flags first things autocratic Trump may 'go after' to 'chill' opposition

'Body blow': Expert disturbed by 'really shocking evidence' against Trump in Jan. 6 case

Ex-prosecutor flabbergasted that Trump thinks 'people stupid enough' to buy core message

Donald Trump may have just broken the law — again: legal expert

Aileen Cannon just gave Hunter Biden a massive gift: legal expert

Ex-FBI counsel rips immunity ruling as 'terrible decision made up of whole cloth'

Did Joe Biden promise to be a one-term president in 2020? Well ...

'He's not capable of it': Ex-prosecutor reveals what will trip Trump up at sentencing

Legal expert draws 'direct line' between Justice Alito's MAGA flag and Trump immunity case

'Getting brutal': Trump's lawyer accused of firing 'totally misleading' questions at Cohen

Legal expert trashes Trump lawyer's first question for Michael Cohen

Longtime Michael Cohen friend thinks he still has 'sick affection' for Trump

'Shocker': Legal expert tears apart Trump team's latest gag order argument

Ex-Prosecutor Breaks Down Possible ‘Calculated’ Move From Trump’s Legal Team

Damning evidence in Trump trial could be gleaned from previous Stormy Daniels lawsuit: report

Trump lawyers scramble as trial witnesses blow up Michael Cohen strategy: expert

Trump criminal trial: How the former president’s tendency to act like a mob boss is being revealed.

How National Enquirer witness just revealed Trump’s felony crime: legal analyst

'Very good news' for Jack Smith as Arizona indictment puts 'pressure' on Trump allies

Ex-prosecutor highlights Trump's odd reaction to witness hanging him out to dry

Judge must punish Trump 'like a child' to prevent 'mistrial by antics': expert

Ex-Prosecutor Spots A Big 'Oops' In Trump's Likely Legal Defense

Here's the moment when Judge Juan Merchan 'lost confidence' in Trump lawyer: ex-prosecutor