Andrew Weissmann

search that was done in Mar-a-Lago where, you know, even Eileen Cannon, when there was a claim that that was sort of improper and vindictive, that was made by one of Donald Trump's co-defendants, she denied that.

The hook for venue is the Mar-a-Lago search.

That, of course, if you don't have this overarching conspiracy, it's really hard to see how that is the appropriate place.

It also is such an obvious example of forum and judge shopping, because compare it to

The claim that Jack Smith was forum shopping where he brought his Mar-a-Lago case where?

In Mar-a-Lago.

Like in Fort Pierce, he did not bring it.

And Carol Lennig has reported on this about the sort of internal discussions where he was a straight shooter and was like, I'm going to bring it where the facts happened.

I'm not going to bring it just because...

I think there might be a better jury or judges in D.C.

And so he was a straight shooter, played it as I think he should have right down the middle.

But this, if the reporting is true, is, again, a sign of the same weaponization that we've been talking about.

Can I just say one more reason it's incompetent?

Donald Trump spent years trying to avoid a trial on these topics.

Like,

You want to bring a case on this?

You want to understand what Obama knew about Russian interference and the steps he took to actually protect the election from claims of interference by Obama into the election?

That's what you're going to get.

If you want to claim that the Jack Smith case was part of a weaponization and you want to have that be tried, that's going to be the trial with all of the proof

that Donald Trump tried successfully to never have go to trial.