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Ex-federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Friday said Americans should no longer be surprised by the Trump administration’s “ever-increasing lows” after the president’s Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey.
Weissmann appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to highlight the “extremely thin nature” of the charges against Comey, adding that he’s waiting to see if the former FBI director’s defense team asks for an immediate trial.
“Because if this really is as thin as we suspect, that’s something they could do,” Weissmann told host Willie Geist. “And that, I think, could blow up in Donald Trump’s face having gone this far.”
Comey was charged with making false statements to Congress in 2020. Trump-nominated federal prosecutor Erik Siebert reportedly refused to prosecute Comey due to the weak nature of the case.
“This is going to be a dead letter faster than a New York minute,” Weissmann predicted.
He argued that DOJ officials choosing to resign rather than bring the case to a grand jury “should give everyone pause.”
“It is so unusual for anyone to resign over something like this,” Weissmann said. “And we have seen it over and over in Trump 2.0 where career people, and now even a political appointee of Donald Trump himself, saying, ‘I can’t stomach this.’”
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