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Former Mueller prosecutor says the call of Trump asking a Georgia official to change the election results shows 'criminal intent'
Andrew Weissmann said President Donald Trump's call contained evidence of crimes, though legal expe…
Tom Porter
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Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann says Trump should be investigated and potentially charged with federal crimes after leaving office
Trump faces criminal exposure from the Russia investigation and two New York fraud investigations t…
Sonam Sheth
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Mueller's top prosecutor says Russia's election interference was 'much worse' than Pearl Harbor
"In terms of the effect and undermining our democracy," Russia's election meddling was "arguably mu…
Sonam Sheth
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EXCLUSIVE: Mueller's 'legal pit bull' Andrew Weissmann discusses Trump, the 2020 election, and Russian interference
Weissmann said Russia's election interference in 2016 was "arguably much worse" than the attack on …
Sonam Sheth
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Trump's Helsinki summit with Putin was 'soul crushing' for Mueller's team and showed them Russia had won a 'servile' American president, new book says
After the summit, Mueller voiced a suspicion that if Trump was "in the tank with Putin," it was lik…
Sonam Sheth
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Mueller issues a rare public statement disputing his former right-hand man's claim that he didn't pursue Trump hard enough
"When important decisions had to be made, I made them," former special counsel Robert Mueller said …
Sonam Sheth
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Mueller prosecutor once said that if Republicans 'retain the House, we all need to retain criminal lawyers' because 'that's how bats--- crazy they are,' a new book says
"I am not joking," the prosecutor, Jeannie Rhee, said, according to Andrew Weissmann's new book abo…
Sonam Sheth
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'Motherf-----': Former Mueller prosecutor describes the moment his team nailed Paul Manafort for financial fraud
Another prosecutor "let out a freewheeling hoot" when she saw the evidence, Weissmann writes. "If t…
Sonam Sheth
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Trump's draft memo firing James Comey was 'tinfoil helmet material,' according to a former Mueller prosecutor's upcoming book
The memo was "incoherent" and "you could almost feel the spittle coming off the paper," according t…
Sonam Sheth
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Former Mueller prosecutor says the special counsel let down the public and describes Trump as 'an animal' in new book
Asked whether Mueller had let down the American public, Andrew Weissmann told The Atlantic: "Absolu…
Sonam Sheth
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Prosecutors are 'sending a message' by asking for harsher sentences for Oath Keepers defendants: DOJ official
Federal prosecutors filed appeals on Wednesday for the sentences of eight convicted members of the …
Natalie Musumeci,Sonam Sheth
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Ex-Mueller prosecutor says charges against Trump Org are likely a 'shot across the bow' with more to come
Andrew Weissman believes that last week's charges against the Trump Org are about sending a warning…
Tom Porter
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Top Mueller prosecutor says New York investigators are likely examining if the Trump Organization falsified tax records
Andrew Weissmann analyzed the legal instruments and tactics that investigators probing the Trump Or…
Tom Porter
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Biden's mishandling of classified records isn't as legally perilous as Trump's, but may pose serious national security risks
Ex-prosecutors say that so far the "aggravating factors" in Trump's case — like obstruction and wil…
Sonam Sheth
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A prosecutor from the Mueller investigation says Trump spared Roger Stone from prison as a reward for 'keeping his lips sealed'
In an op-ed article, Andrew Weissmann suggested Roger Stone was hiding something and called for a r…
Tom Porter
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Legal experts criticized the judge who denied an FBI request to access classified info seized from Trump at Mar-a-Lago
A federal judge on Thursday denied the FBI's request to resume inspecting highly classified documen…
Tom Porter
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Florida's Charlie Crist says DOJ should intervene after Ron DeSantis' 'disgusting and vile move' sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard
Crist didn't offer his own solutions for immigration reform if he were to be elected governor, sayi…
Kimberly Leonard,Bryan Metzger
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Federal judge grants Trump's request for a special master to look through docs seized in the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago
A federal judge allowed for a special master to review materials the FBI seized from Former Preside…
Sindhu Sundar,Yelena Dzhanova
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Trump team files new court papers in Mar-a-Lago lawsuit that experts say are 'long on hyperbole and short on law'
The former president's team recycled claims of political bias and again alluded to his possible 202…
Sonam Sheth,C. Ryan Barber
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Former prosecutors mock Trump's attorneys and say they may need to hire their own lawyers amid continued Mar-a-Lago fallout
One national security lawyer was "confused" by Trump's latest lawsuit, and an ex-prosecutor said Tr…