'Come on!' Ex-FBI lawyer snaps at Merrick Garland for slow-walking Jack Smith report
Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann called out Attorney General Merrick Garland on MSNBC on Saturday morning for stalling on releasing special counsel Jack Smith's final report on his Donald Trump investigations.
Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Weissmann stated that the attorney general is wrong to limit the release of the portion of Smith's report having to do with the stolen government documents the president-elect hoarded at his Mar-a-Lago report.
That led to the normally placid Weissmann to blurt out, "Come on!"
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"It is not so much Judge [Aileen] Cannon or the 11th Circuit that we have to worry about," he told the hosts. "It is that Merrick Garland has said that he, Merrick Garland, does not want to release that publicly. He only wants to give that to Congress and certain people in Congress. Why? Because he says that there's two co-defendants of Donald Trump, still may have a criminal case pending in Florida. I think he's wrong on that; technically, there is no case pending."
With MSNBC co-hosts Michael Steele and Symone Sanders Townsend interrupting and excitedly asking, "Where's the case?" Weissmann stated, "I think he got something technically wrong when he said there is a pending case."
"Judge Cannon pointedly, when she dismissed the case before her, as to all three defendants not just Donald Trump, she ordered the case closed," he elaborated. "Now, it is true that the Department of Justice is appealing that decision as to the two co-defendants but come on! There's no pending case in the district court per Judge Cannon's own order and everybody knows that on January 20th that that case is never going to go forward."
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