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Andrew Weissmann Thinks Donald Trump Can Be Held to Account
['The New Yorker', 'Susan B. Glasser', 'Jane Mayer', 'Evan Osnos']
The New Yorker
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The Washington Roundtable’s Jane Mayer interviews Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor for the Department of Justice who served as a lead member of the Mueller investigation, about what meaningful legal accountability in the Trump Administration looks like.
He points to a fix that would raise the bar for federal grand-jury indictments, and explains why he believes that Donald Trump’s disputed I.R.S.
He also makes the case, drawn from his new book, “Liar’s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America,” for treating political lying itself as a problem that the law can address.
“We have to be thinking about big, bold ideas,” Weissmann says.