Maddow just flagged this story...What is his speciality? Why does Drump team want him removed?

[HipChick]

Link to tweet

Who is Weissmann?

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-weissmann-20180216-story.html

[triron]

1. Yes I heard that on The Beat. Sounds fishy to me.

[irisblue]

2. Ftom his wiki page

Andrew Weissmann (born c. 1958) is an American attorney. Since 2015 he has been the chief of the criminal fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In June 2017 he was appointed to a management role on the 2017 special counsel team headed by Robert Mueller.

Criminal fraud huh.

[HipChick]

4. From the link, sounds like he's Mueller star team member..and deputy...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. He is a very effective and aggressive prosecutor

who has won a lot of high-profile cases. Right now he's heading up the Manafort prosecution. He has been especially skilled at flipping underlings in mob prosecutions. They're afraid of him. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-weissmann-20180216-story.html

[frogmarch]

5. Maybe his bias against trump?

http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-andrew-weissman-mueller-trump-clinton-russia-investigation-fbi-2017-12

December 9, 2017

The investigator dubbed as special counsel Robert Mueller's "pit bull" by The New York Times has come under fire for perceived bias against President Donald Trump.

That investigator, Andrew Weissmann, was reportedly in attendance at former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's election night party last year at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The revelation came days after the conservative group, Judicial Watch, published an email he sent to former acting Attorney General Sally Yates praising her for refusing to defend Trump's controversial travel ban in January.

"If it's true that Andrew Weissmann attended Hillary's victory party, this is getting out of hand," tweeted Ari Fleischer, who served as White House press secretary under President George W. Bush.

Weissmann is one of the most prominent investigators on Mueller's team. Considered to be an expert on flipping "defendants into collaborators — with either tactical brilliance or overzealousness, depending on one's perspective," as The Times wrote in October, Weissmann is the investigation's "pounding heart, a bookish, legal pit bull with two Ivy League degrees, a weakness for gin martinis and classical music and a list of past enemies that includes professional killers and white-collar criminals."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Most prosecutors are "biased" against criminals.

[wishstar]

12. Trumpers have been complaining about him being an anti-Trump Hillary supporter for months

I would guess Weissmann's political leanings are almost certainly the reason for recusal.

[PoorMonger]

6. Also been noted several times

That this guy is good a getting people to flip. Probably why Trump is so scared after the Cohen raid and his other old lawyer saying Cohen can’t be trusted.

[MontanaMama]

7. Im suspicious.

Weissmann must have some kind of history with dotard and company. Time to get to work googling him to see if we can figure it out. Maybe Rachel will have something on him by show time.

[HipChick]

9. Looks like she will...was going to tune anyway for Comey interview..

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. It's simple: They're afraid of him.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-weissmann-20180216-story.html

Weissmann casts a broad shadow in the Mueller probe, a veteran federal prosecutor who has built a reputation for aggressive tactics and a no-nonsense demeanor. Both his supporters and his detractors agree he is hard-charging and to be feared.

"He's tenacious, and very smart,'' said Bradley D. Simon, a defense lawyer who worked alongside Weissmann as an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn in the 1990s. "He really got enormous results. He won a lot of big, high-profile cases."

Weissmann's approach — and his expertise in uncovering perjury, obstruction of justice and complex financial crimes — now could pose a mortal threat to Trump's presidency.

....Hannity vilified the prosecutor during 14 episodes in December and January alone, according to transcripts of the show, cable's most watched news program. Other conservative commentators, notably radio's Rush Limbaugh and Fox News' Lou Dobbs and Laura Ingraham, have joined the attack.

He's a tough prosecutor who doesn't take prisoners.

[Leghorn21]

13. Felix Sater, Mama!! From June 2017:

....Weissmann has a reputation as a fierce prosecutor, having headed up the Justice Department’s Enron Task Force. Before that, as an assistant US attorney in the Eastern District of New York, he pursued cases targeting Mafia wise guys and Russian organized crime members.

Weissmann played a role in an unusual case—involving the Mafia, the Russian mob, and securities fraud—that is now oddly linked to Trump.

As a prosecutor in the Eastern District, Weissmann signed a 1998 cooperation agreement between the US government and Felix Sater, a violent felon and securities trader who had pleaded guilty to financial crimes. Sater went on to become a confidential informant for the FBI and a Trump business partner. During the years in which Sater was secretly cooperating with the Feds, he was also engaging in key real estate ventures with Trump. This included scouting for deals in Russia and Eastern Europe, projects that never materialized. Trump has consistently claimed that his business empire has “nothing to do with Russia.” Yet Sater’s intriguing tale represents at least one important Russia connection for Trump.

More:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/trump-felix-sater-andrew-weissman/

...remember, trump has never HEARD of FELIX SATER:

[MontanaMama]

17. Holy hell.

Can’t wait for Rachel!! Thanks Leghorn.

[Motley13]

10. guess he is intimidating for those charged or investigated for crimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/us/politics/andrew-weissmann-mueller.html

[Phoenix61]

14. I'm so confused

If there's no collusion and Twitler isn't a target what do his lawyers want to keep Weissmann away from? Talk about acting guilty.

[malaise]

15. These goons really hate rule of law

I've never seen anything like this.

[Loki Liesmith]

16. Sounds like a stipulation for an interview

[Mr. Ected]

18. Are Republicans setting legal precedent

That one's political beliefs can disallow their participation in the prosecution of criminal activity?

These things work both ways, you know.

Democrats....never forget.