Why Andrew Weissmann Symbolizes All That Was Wrong With the Corrupt Mueller Special Counsel Investigation

Trump's DOJ must thoroughly investigate Weissmann and his legal team for election interference and any other potential criminal conduct they engaged in during their time on the Mueller investigation.

For those of you who don’t know, Andrew Weissmann was the #2 under Robert Mueller in his investigation of Donald Trump. Most people believe it was Weissmann, not Mueller, who hired all of the hardcore Democrat lawyers who staffed the Mueller investigation; it was Weissmann, not Mueller, who ran the investigation; and it was Weissmann, not Mueller, who wrote the Mueller Report closing down the investigation. These beliefs are strongly supported by Mueller’s catastrophic testimony to Congress on his report where it was clear he was suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s. The fact that we’ve not seen hide nor hair of Mueller since he testified to Congress renders that assessment all the more likely.

As for Weissmann, you can't turn on CNN or MSNBC or Twitter without finding him casting scurrilous aspersions at Trump and making wild claims unsupported by the evidence. In stark contrast to Weissmann, you never see Joe Biden Special Counsel Robert Hur or Russia Hoax Special Counsel John Durham anywhere on television or social media. They did their jobs and properly disappeared from public view. This contrast is exactly why Weissmann symbolizes all that was wrong with the Mueller investigation and anything related to it. Weissmann has shown us exactly who he was and is: a hyper-partisan political hack who used his power on the Mueller investigation to do as much damage as possible to Trump and anyone connected to Trump in order to win the 2020 presidential election. Based on Durham’s report, Weissmann did that knowing there was absolutely no evidence to support the Russia hoax from fairly early on.

Weissmann isn’t just prolific on Twitter. Shortly after his fruitless effort to get Trump fizzled out with the publication of the Mueller Report, Weissmann penned a lucrative legal analyst gig with anti-Trumo network MSNBC, eventually getting his own show on MSNBC solely focused on Trump. He also snagged a publishing deal with Random House for a book detailing his failed effort to get Trump. Though I can’t say for certain, I’m not aware of people getting six-to-seven-figure book deals for failing. Must be nice to be a failed partisan prosecutor on the Left. It goes without saying, neither Hur nor Durham received “show-me-the-money" television or book deals.

You may be a fan of Weissmann, but you are delusional to believe it is proper for a special counsel with such a hyper-partisan mentality to serve on an investigation of a high-level elected official from the other party. Weissmann’s presence on the Mueller investigation and conduct thereafter shred any notion that what occurred from May 2017 to March 2019 at a cost of $32 million to taxpayers was fair and balanced. This conclusion is strongly supported by the Durham Report finding that Igor Danchenko’s lies that largely made up the Steele Dossier were known to the leadership of both the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation by January 2017. Weissmann knew the Russia hoax was a hoax from the moment he joined the Mueller investigation. Trump’s entire first term and 2020 reelection were terribly and unfairly tainted and undermined by the Steel Dossier and the Mueller investigation. 

Weissmann may pat himself on the back for his role in torpedoing Trump’s presidency, but his handiwork paved the way for Joe Biden’s election, which has resulted in both domestic economic pain to a majority of Americans from Bidenomics and to a far less stable world in which Russia invaded Ukraine (again under the watch of a Democrat president), Hamas killed over 1,000 Israelis, North Korea grew more powerful, and China expanded its control of the South China Sea in preparation for its invasion of Taiwan. Should Trump win in November, his DOJ must thoroughly investigate Weissmann and his legal team for election interference and any other potential criminal conduct they engaged in during their time on the Mueller investigation.

Only with accountability will some modicum of faith be restored to our political system.