Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Monday slammed the Trump White Home’s reported purging of Justice Division management.
It “violates the civil service guidelines and the protections of them,” Weissmann informed MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
Weissmann referenced the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre” of October 1973, when then-President Richard Nixon fired particular prosecutor Archibald Cox in a determined bid to thwart the investigation into the Watergate scandal that finally sunk his presidency.
The present state of affairs with Trump — whose weeks-old second administration has reportedly already forced out multiple senior FBI officials — is “much more egregious,” warned Weissmann.
“I’m sufficiently old to recollect the ‘Saturday Evening Bloodbath,’ and I need folks to grasp, you could be considering it is a story simply concerning the FBI. It isn’t,” stated Weissmann.
“It’s sufficient that it’s concerning the FBI,” he continued. “However I wish to make folks perceive it’s much more egregious than what Nixon tried to do by simply eradicating the particular counsel to say, ‘I shouldn’t be investigated.’”
With Trump, Weissmann argued: “That is saying, ‘I’m a king. I can disobey all civil service guidelines.’ He has the No. 2 on the Justice Division agreeing. So that is not like what occurred within the ‘Saturday Evening Bloodbath,’ the place the Justice Division was saying, ‘Hearth me as a result of I’m not doing one thing that’s unlawful.’”
Watch Weissmann’s full evaluation right here:
