At MSNBC, old habits die hard. On Thursday’s installment of The Last Word, former Mueller Probe prosecutor turned MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann raised the prospect of impeachment for President Trump’s attempts to defund Harvard.
Referencing a Truth Social post where Trump threatened Harvard’s tax-exempt status, host Lawrence O’Donnell told Weissmann that, “There is now an active question of did Donald Trump violate the law with that social media posting.”
Weissmann immediately argued Trump was extorting the university, “This is, in my view, a sort of extortion racket through various means, whether it’s saying we’re going to go after international students, whether we’re going to try and revoke your IRS status, and through an illegal means, whether we’re going to just pull all of your funding for your medical school,…
