Democrats and the U.S. press have tried-and-convicted 77-year-old President Donald Trump on the airwaves, making it impossible to give him a fair trial in U.S. District Court in Miami for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 37 felonies for violating the Espionage and Presidential Records Act. Speaking on anti-Trump MSNBC, 65-year-old former lead Special Counsel Robert Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann says, “this game is over,” pronouncing Trump a convicted criminal. Imagine that, the man who led the fake Mueller investigation pontificating on Trump’s impending trial. Mueller knew on Day One of his 22-months, $40 million investigation into Trump’s alleged ties the Kremlin that it was all built of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fake Steele dossier, a compendium of lies and fabrications about Trump all designed to help discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign.
If Mueller had any integrity May 17, 2017, he would have told former Depurty Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein he wouldn’t take the case due to a lack of probable cause. Weissmann knew all about the fake probable cause used by 62-year-old former FBI Director James Comey to launch a 2016 counterintelligence investigation into Trump and his campaign. Rosentein acquiesced to Democrats crying “obstruction of justice” when Trump fired Comey May 8, 2017 for leaking fake news stories about his alleged Russian ties to the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and other anti-Trump news outlets. Now Weissmann, who led the Mueller investigation, says Trump is toast. Weissmann told MSNBC’s Lawerence O’Donnell, a known Trump hater, “this game is over.” Weissmann knows his comments or analysis are not facts in the U.S. criminal justice system.
Weissmann was the primary architect of the wasted Mueller investigation, knowing from Day One, there were no substance to the charges. Now Weissmann proclaims that Smith has already won his case against Trump because CNN circulated a recording of Trump telling a Bedminster audience he had classified documents and talked about them publicly. Weissmann, a former U.S. Attorney, knows the federal courts system that affords all criminal defendants due process and right to a fair trial. How can Trump get a fair trial when TV host and former prosecutors pretend they’re trying Trump over the airwaves to fill in dead time on cable news? “And so, the big picture here, I think for people is . . . this is game over if you are following the facts and the law,” Weissmann told O’Donnell. Weissmann know all incriminating facts can be ruled inadmissible in court.
Liberal media outlets deciding that ratings are more important than Trump’s due process and right to a fair tria,l have so prejudiced the case, making it nearly impossible for U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to proceed with trial. Weissmann knows that it’s easy to get key facts tossed out of trials because of how they prejudice a jury of Trump’s peers and his right to a fair trial. Whatever recording CNN’s Anderson Cooper aired June 26, showing conclusive proof that Trump divulged classified information, admitting he couldn’t declassify it because he’s not longer president, it’s all subject to the rules of evidence at trial. Trump’s defense attorney can ask the judge to rule the evidence inadmissible if it prejudices Trump’s case. O’Donnell and Weissmann can yuck it up on national TV but they know the consequences to revealing the prosecutors’ facts before the trial begins.
Weissmann said that Trump is not charged by Smith with dissemination of national defense information only that he continued to posses it. But if Trump’s underlings packed worthless old boxes of junk from the White House and shipped them to his Palm Beach Mar-a-Lago estate, how does that violate the 1917 Espionage Act? O’Donnell and Weissmann want to convict Trump of illegally possessing classified documents. How would Trump know what was in the boxes, leaving prosecutors unable to prove intent? Smith’s DOJ prosecutors must prove that Trump had the intent of harboring classified documents, something not shown in any of the recordings of Trump talking about classified docs. Weissmann said the tape is “absolutely clear,” that Trump knew he possessed classified docs. Whoever packed Trump’s boxes, doesn’t prove that Trump knew anything.
Former prosecutors, Democrats and liberal news hosts don’t supercede the U.S. Constitution, Bill or Rights and U.S. criminal code. Trump must be given the same protections as any U.S. citizen facing a criminal trial, including the right to due process and a fair trial. How can Trump get a fair trial when broadcast and print journalists present prosecutors evidence over the airwaves and vitiate the jury pool, all exposed now to what Weissmann thinks are indisputable facts. No facts presented in civil or criminal court are indisputable, as Weissmann knows. He spent 22-months, $40 million wasting taxpayer money knowing that Mueller investigation found that Trump or his 2016 committed no wrongdoing. Weissmann knew the FBI’s case was based on fake probable cause, all based on Hillary’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier, a purely political investigation.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
