Trump Just Punished a Major Country for Funding Russia’s War Machine
A Grand Jury Investigation Into the Russia Hoax Has Been Ordered
Wait, Jim Acosta Did *What* With a Parkland Shooting Victim?
Trump Is Just Doing Business
Watch How Cory Booker Responds When Asked About Socialist NYC Mayor Candidate Zohran...
Second Amendment Foundation, Others File Lawsuit Challenging National Firearms Act
Trump 'Is a Piece of S**t': Crockett’s Plan to Win the Midterms
Florida Law Enforcement Net 48 Suspected Child Predators, 153 Charges Filed
New York’s Map Manipulator: Hochul’s Latest Power Grab to Undo GOP Wins
Elizabeth Warren Cheers on Socialist Mamdani, Dems Back Communist Agenda While City Crumbl...
Democrats Turn to Deepfake Tactics to Boost Jon Ossoff in Georgia
Texas House Approves Arrest Warrants for Democrats Who Fled to Illinois to Block...
Republican Lawmaker Will Introduce Bill Banning Mid-Decade Redistricting in This Blue Stat...
Even President Trump Said It's the 'HOTTEST' Ad Out there
Canadian Official Gives Insight on a Possible Trade Deal With the US
Tipsheet

New Emails Show Special Counsel 'Pit Bull' Cheered Sally Yates For Blocking Trump Travel Ban

New documents obtained by government watchdog Judicial Watch show a top DOJ prosecutor, who is now working as a deputy on Special Counsel Bob Mueller's investigation, cheered the decision by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to defy orders and refusal to enforce President Trump's first travel ban in January. Yates was the acting attorney general at the time and was promptly fired for her defiance. 

Advertisement

Emails show Andrew Weissmann, who served as chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Fraud Section under President Obama, loved Yates' refusal to implement the ban. 

“I am so proud. And in awe. Thank you so much. All my deepest respects,” Weissmann wrote. 

The New York Times has described Weissmann as "Mueller's Pitbull."

He is a top lieutenant to Robert S. Mueller III on the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links to the Trump campaign. Significantly, Mr. Weissmann is an expert in converting defendants into collaborators — with either tactical brilliance or overzealousness, depending on one’s perspective.

“This is an astonishing and disturbing find. Andrew Weissmann, a key prosecutor on Robert Mueller’s team, praised Obama DOJ holdover Sally Yates after she lawlessly thwarted President Trump,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton released in a statement. “How much more evidence do we need that the Mueller operation has been irredeemably compromised by anti-Trump partisans? Shut it down.”

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement