'Red line': Ex-prosecutor says Trump being put in a holding cell 'needs to happen'
by Raw Story
Raw Story— Former senior Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann related Donald Trump's intimidation of jurors to that of a mafia case. It might be enough for the judge to act.Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, Weissmann said that Judge Juan Merchan's "red line" likely protects the jurors. Last night, a Fox News host attacked one juror for saying she doesn't believe anyone is above the law. The host said that disqualifies her.It was a take that shocked Wallace because she believes that...
Raw Story—'Terrible strategy': Ex-prosecutor says Trump's about to destroy his hush money defense. Former President Donald Trump has already forced his attorneys to defend him in the least effective way possible in the Manhattan hush money case, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman argued on MSNBC Monday.This comes as the trial is set to resume this week, after several days in which Trump did not appear to be faring well."It does seem that [Trump attorney] Todd Blanche was kind of hamstrung by trying to please Donald Trump," said anchor Joy Reid. "I mean, all of the sort of weirdness of...
Raw Story—Trump prosecutor says 'surprise witness' is ex-president's human 'paper trail'. For a quarter of a century Rhona Graff ran point at Trump Tower and was his trusted gatekeeper. So when she took the stand under subpoena on Friday in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial — it was significant. Tristan Snell, who was a former assistant attorney general for the state of New York and helped bring a $25 million dollar settlement from Trump University, believes Graff is a game-changer because she is such a longstanding player in Trump world. "Trump exec...
Raw Story—'He's actually cooperating': Ex-prosecutor says Chesebro is giving up the goods on Trump. A co-defendant of Donald Trump in Georgia wasn't indicted for a similar scheme in Arizona, and the best explanation is that he's cooperating with prosecutors, a legal analyst said Wednesday evening.Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, where he was asked about Trump attorney and co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro.Specifically, the host noted that Chesebro "traveled to Arizona to cooperate...