right in attack mode starting today as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday night. day 784 of the trump administration, and there are brand-new signs that we may indeed be witnessing the end stage of robert mueller s investigation into russian interference in our presidential election and please note here, when covering an entity that does not leak, we are forced to watch for other things like personnel moves and for starters one of mueller s top prosecutors andrew weissmann plans to leave the team. the news came from the special council s office itself, which sent out this statement today and we quote. andrew weissmann will be concluding his detail to the special counsel s office in the near future. he was the architect of the case against trump campaign chairman paul manafort, who s been sentenced to prison for almost 7 1/2 years. you may recall
trump and his allies, many of them left their families for two years, have worked probably 80 to 100-hour weeks around the clock in something that they felt was a service to their country like bob mueller, but the people who are under him doing the work i think won t get any of the credit and are getting a lot of the attack. in many ways they should be thanked for what they ve done, not attacked. that said, i don t think this means the end of the investigations, though. or the prosecutions, certainly. i mean, we know now that roger stone is going to trial in november. that s a prosecution. it s going to continue. prosecutors are going to do that. there s a saying in the department of justice and all the different prosecutor officer r offices, prosecutors are fungible. the government is always ready. while andrew w weissmann is a stellar prosecutor, there are
weissmann. trump went after him on twitter, citing andrew weissmann s horrible and vicious prosecutorial past and his larger role in the mueller inquiry. why would robert mueller hire a guy like andrew weissmann with that atrocious track record. why was he appointed? the answer is, it was a fishing expedition and it was an effort to get trump from the beginning. the plan for paul manafort, meanwhile, is to ensure he dies behind bars. andrew weissmann is working hard to make sure that happens. what the special counsel has done, he has chosen his jack the ripper like leader andrew wi wiseman weissmann to use the type of tactics that are properly reserved for mafia gangs for terrorists. i ve called mr. weissman the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct. you get the drift.
last month, weissmann said his lies about it go to the larger view of what we think is going on. and what we think the motive here is, this goes to the heart of what the special counsel s office is investigating, that meeting and what happened to that meeting is of special significance to the special counsel. weissmann has been at the sen of other high-profile cases including but not limited to the prosecution of the gambino family and enron. he was the fbi general counsel when mueller led the bureau. in the book fire and fury michael wolff writes that steve bannon describes weissmann as, quote, the lebron james of money laundering investigations. mueller s attackers have often trained their sites on