One of the most prominent members of Robert Mueller’s special counsel team is headlining a fundraiser for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
Andrew Weissmann, a former Department of Justice lawyer who later held the second-most senior position in the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, will host a “fireside chat” for the former vice president’s donors on June 2.
The event will be hosted over Zoom and co-hosted by attorney and law professor Anne Milgram.
“It’s no surprise that a guy who tried to take down the President through the sham impeachment would also help Joe Biden’s campaign,” Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told the Washington Examiner. “It doesn’t get any swampier than this: trying to stage a partisan coup against the President and then raising money for his political opponent.”
Weissmann was considered Mueller’s “pit bull” during the Russia investigation and is widely considered a key player behind the Justice Department’s charges against President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates.
Since leaving the DOJ, Wiessmann has joined MSNBC as a legal analyst, where he regularly attacks Trump and his administration. Weissmann was also supportive of the House Democrats’ impeachment of Trump and compared the president’s alleged crimes stemming from the Ukraine whistleblower scandal to Watergate.
In April, Weissmann said Attorney General William Barr was “in bed” with the president and railed against any potential pardon for former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“I was in the Department of Justice for over 20 years, and I think the way I look at this is from the parochial point of view of what I think the department is doing, which I think the department is trying to soften the blow and make it politically easier for the president to pardon Gen. Flynn. The disclosure of documents from a purported neutral team that is reviewing the Flynn case, it seems kind of laughable to me,” Weissmann said on MSNBC in April.
