The Briefing Room
General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on September 21, 2020, 09:13:54 pm
-
Kristina Wong 21 Sep 2020
Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor for Robert Mueller’s special counsel team investigating the president, lamented in an interview published Monday in The Atlantic that they could not do more.
Mueller’s report, which came out in early 2019, said there was no evidence of criminal conspiracy, cooperation, or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, and declined to make a judgment on whether President Trump had obstructed justice.
Weissman said that the special counsel was hampered by internal divisions and that Mueller’s integrity allowed Trump to escape accountability.
“There’s no question I was frustrated at the time,†he said in the interview. “There was more that could be done that we didn’t do.â€
In his new book on the investigation, Where the Law Ends, he claims that the president’s ability and threats to shut down the special counsel also caused them to pull their punches.
For example, he said the special counsel shied away from subpoenaing Don Trump Jr. to testify about his notorious June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton, or subpoenaing Ivanka Trump.
more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/21/muellers-top-prosecutor-andrew-weissman-laments-we-could-have-done-more/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/21/muellers-top-prosecutor-andrew-weissman-laments-we-could-have-done-more/)