Joe Biden’s campaign canceled a fundraiser that it had scheduled with a top lawyer from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Andrew Weissmann, a former Department of Justice lawyer who had the second-most senior position on the Mueller team, was scheduled to host a “fireside chat” for a June 2 event benefiting the former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. But according to the Wall Street Journal, the event was canceled shortly after it was planned.
After the planned event was revealed last week, President Trump’s campaign went on the attack, arguing that this was further evidence that the investigation was politically motivated.
“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,” Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign’s communications director, 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.”
The Biden campaign has not publicly commented on the fundraiser’s cancellation.
Weissmann was known as Mueller’s “pit bull” during the Russia investigation. After leaving the DOJ, he became a legal analyst for MSNBC.
