MSNBC Legal Analyst Andrew Weissmann “never heard” of the type of instruction that the Judge at President Donald Trump’s arraignment gave to Mr. Trump, in all his 21 years of prosecuting people. Why does that make me think that it says more about this Judge than it does about Mr. Trump. Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has resulted in uncurable, inoperable Cranial Rectal Inversion (CRI). Let’s discuss Mr. Weissman’s stunning revelation, this Judge, and Mr. Trump.

Andrew Weissmann is a very small man. I don’t mean in terms of height. I mean in terms of joy, creativity and basic humanity. He has been described by the New York Times as “a pitbull” and “critics have said he deployed “hard-nosed tactics and a ‘win-at-all-costs’ mentality” in the Enron prosecution”. Ah yes, the Enron Persecution. What a trip down memory lane through misconduct. Remember:

The sealed records involved the Enron case Weissmann oversaw prior to his abrupt departure from the Enron Task Force in the middle of jury deliberations. Given Weissmann’s current role as Mueller’s “pit bull,” revisiting the allegations of misconduct leveled against the prosecutor—with the benefit of the entire unsealed record—promotes transparency and the public’s interest in trusting the integrity of the special counsel’s team.

The now unsealed records expose efforts by Weissmann, and the Enron Task Force he led, to intimidate witnesses and to interfere in the attorney-client relationship of a cooperating witness. Several affidavits unsealed last week catalogued veiled threats made to witnesses the Enron defendants sought to interview. However, because many of the attorneys would speak only off the record to Enron’s attorneys, the courts refused to consider the affidavits sufficient to prove prosecutorial misconduct.
Two attorneys, however, were willing to testify. In a just-unsealed affidavit, one lawyer stated that an FBI agent working for the Enron Task Force overseen by Weissmann warned his client against talking to the Enron defense team because “those are bad guys.” The second attorney stated that an FBI agent had made veiled threats against his client in a separate Enron trial.

Messing with jurors! Keep that in mind as you read this account by non-other than Andrew Weissman himself in his role as MSNBC Legal Analyst:

The second thing that stood out as unusual is that the standard condition that a judge usually emphasizes to a defendant is that they have to show up at each court appearance. That is the most important thing. That is what bail is for — so that you’ll show up in court.
But I heard that the standard condition and most important thing today is “do not commit a crime’’ followed up by “do not tamper with a juror.” My first reaction was, I was a prosecutor for 21 years and I was a defense lawyer for five years, and I’ve never heard that.

Hearing may be impacted by a CRI. You just knew this guy was going to have a nasally, weeny voice too.

After getting caught out in Enron, Andrew Weissmann was brought in to handle the Dementia Patient lead on the Mueller Investigation as Lead Prosecutor for the Robert Mueller in the Russia investigation. Yeah, I bet you forgot about that one. Weissman persecuted Paul Manafort who was charged as a foreign agent (ahem, Hunter Biden). Self-awareness is the first thing to go with a Cranial Rectal Inversion. Joy, creativity and basic humanity are secondary symptoms.