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Former Mueller Prosecutor Explains How Trump Will Get Nailed in Manhattan DA Investigation

Andrew Weissmann was Robert Mueller’s right-hand man, Mueller’s first hire as an assistant. Weissmann is a highly respected and experienced prosecutor in his own right and someone who has been more than willing to give a candid assessment as to where Trump stands with respect to his criminal exposure, which cases may be strong, which are weak.

We always read his assessments. Right now, Weissmann says that all eyes are on New York:

“If it’s going to happen, it’ll be in Manhattan,” Weissmann said. “That seems like the one that has the most legs. But you and I both know, it’s really hard. I’ve been on the inside and listened to people on the outside. It’s really hard unless you’re inside to know whether they’re really going to be able to make the case.”

One of the challenges in investigating Trump is that fact that he never used email — a detail that Weissmann said poses the same challenge as prosecuting mob cases. “…in those situations, those are why in almost any complicated investigation I’ve done, you need a cooperator. I mean, you have to have cooperating witnesses.”

“I am not a subscriber to ‘Donald Trump is not smart’ or ‘is an idiot.’ He may not be erudite and come off as particularly educated, but I think he’s very, very street-savvy,” Weissmann said. “And I think because he has sued and been sued so many times, I think he has a very good idea about where the line is.

Bingo. The second part. He has sued and been sued so many times, he was represented by the real Roy Cohn, he knows how to keep just this side of the line so as to not indict himself. However, if law enforcement starts turning the people in his circle, and there’s never been more pressure to do so, at that point, then perhaps something will change with respect to how much “cooperation” we see.

We also don’t know what the bank people might know or say, people at Deutsche, including his personal banker Rosemary Rosemary Vrablic, who is in some trouble with Deutsche, may be able to provide details that Trump never anticipated.

It sounds like Weismann limited his view to possible state crimes or crimes of which we know to be of interest. We here are still very interested in possible federal crimes associated with the riots at the Capitol. We want to know who planned the event, how high did the conspiracy go.

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Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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