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Top Mueller Prosecutor Suggests Trump Is Gearing Up For A Military Coup

Former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, Nov. 13, 2019. (YouTube screen capture/MSNBC)

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Andrew Weissmann, a top prosecutor on the special counsel’s investigation, suggested on Monday that President Donald Trump fired his secretary of defense in order to pull off a military coup and remain in office.

Earlier on Monday, Trump fired Mark Esper as Pentagon chief, replacing him with Christopher Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).

Weissmann asserted on Twitter that Trump had installed a “flunky” that might allow him to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

The Senate confirmed Miller, a former Army Green Beret, as director of NCTC in August.

The Associated Press and other news outlets projected on Saturday that Biden will win the electoral college vote over Trump. (RELATED: Mueller’s ‘Pit Bull’ To Host Fundraiser For Joe Biden)

Trump’s lawyers have filed lawsuits seeking recounts in several swing states. Trump has not conceded to Biden pending the outcome of the lawsuits.

Weissmann said that Trump’s firing of Esper was “serious,” though he offered no evidence that president is setting the stage for a military coup to remain in office.

“To have a successful coup, a leader must control the military,” wrote Weissmann, who is now an analyst at MSNBC.

Weissmann, the former chief of the Justice Department’s fraud section, led the investigation into former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Republicans cited Weissmann’s role as evidence of political bias in the special counsel’s probe. Weissmann attended an election night party for Hillary Clinton in 2016. He also contributed to Democrats’ political campaigns.

Weissmann also suggested without evidence that Trump is holding onto power because he fears federal prosecution once he leaves office.

“For those chalking up Trump’s denial that he lost the election to pathology and being a sore loser, remember also that Trump will no longer enjoy immunity from federal prosecution on January 20, 2021,” Weissmann wrote earlier on Monday.

The special counsel’s team declined to pursue charges against Trump. The special counsel investigated Trump for possible obstruction of the FBI and special counsel’s investigations into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016.

According to the report from the investigation, prosecutors were unable to establish that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia.

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