Ex-Prosecutor Draws Dark Historical Comparison Over Trump’s 'I Am A King' Moment
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But with Donald Trump it's "far more egregious," warned Andrew Weissmann.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Monday slammed the Trump White House’s reported purging of Justice Department leadership.
It “violates the civil service rules and the protections of them,” Weissmann told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
Weissmann referenced the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre” of October 1973, when then-President Richard Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox in a desperate bid to thwart the investigation into the Watergate scandal that ultimately sunk his presidency.
The current situation with Trump — whose weeks-old second administration has reportedly already forced out multiple senior FBI officials — is “far more egregious,” warned Weissmann.
“I’m old enough to remember the ‘Saturday Night Massacre’ and I want people to understand, you might be thinking this is a story just about the FBI. It is not,” said Weissmann.
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