“Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor on Mueller’s special counsel team, is headlining a June 2nd virtual fundraiser for Biden.” Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC), May 21, 2020, as quoted by Gateway Pundit
On June 21, 2019, Fox News (Alex Pappas) reported that Weissmann had a book deal with Random House, following a New York Times account. He had left the Justice Department and was teaching at NYU. The book became Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation, listed on his NYU biography and published in 2020. Signing a memoir is legal. It is still a documented turn from “the report speaks for itself” to a paid insider narrative.
On May 21, 2020, Fox News (Brooke Singman) reported he would headline a June 2 virtual “fireside chat” for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, moderated by former New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram, via the Biden Victory Fund on Zoom. Guests who RSVP’d by contributing would get the link. The Washington Examiner ran the same peg. Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh’s reaction, as quoted by the Examiner, is campaign commentary, not a finding.
The same day, Cristina Laila wrote at Gateway Pundit: “Mueller’s ‘Pit Bull’ Andrew Weissmann Headlining Virtual Fundraiser For Joe Biden.” The documented peg in that piece is a May 21, 2020, tweet by reporter Ken Thomas: “Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor on Mueller’s special counsel team, is headlining a June 2nd virtual fundraiser for Biden.” Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton tweeted the same day that “Mueller’s top deputy hosting fundraiser for Biden” and called for pardons in the Mueller cases. Those tweets are what TGP embedded.
Commentary TGP’s nicknames (“pit bull,” “devil”), the claim that Weissmann “was in charge of the entire special counsel operation,” and the claim he “hired nearly 2 dozen angry Democrat lawyers” are Laila’s commentary, not Fact on this page. The New York Times “pit bull” label is a newspaper epithet, not a job title. This post does not repeat TGP’s unsourced “perjury trap” admission as a quote from Weissmann.
Fundraising for a nominee after prosecuting that nominee’s opponent is not a crime. It is a fact about which side of the ballot the former lead prosecutor chose to stand on, in public, for money.
The Washington Examiner later reported that the Biden campaign cancelled the June 2 event after blowback (May 29, 2020). The Washington Free Beacon (May 23, 2020) reported Weissmann said he would withdraw from MSNBC if the fundraiser went forward; the network confirmed a mutual exit. Epoch Times (Tom Ozimek, May 21, 2020) printed the invitation details: June 2 Biden Victory Fund Zoom “fireside chat,” tickets $500–$5,600. American Greatness (May 27, 2020) covered the fundraiser plus a return to Jenner & Block. Conrad Black’s National Review review of Where Law Ends (Sept. 29, 2020) is book criticism, not a court finding.