Former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann says SCOTUS gave Trump a ‘win’ by hearing immunity case on J6 charges

Weissman argued that the decision, which will potentially delay the trial until after the election in November, makes Trump "de facto immune." Weissmann services as a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller's Special Counsel's Office from 2017-19 working on the Trump-Russia investigation. He has also been critical of the Biden DOJ's investigation into J6.

"I’m very pessimistic," Weissman said during an appearance on Morning Joe. "I do not have the view that they took this case because they're gonna hand out a win to Donald Trump in the Colorado case but here they're essentially gonna give him a defeat by saying there is no presidential immunity."

"I think ultimately they will not grant immunity in this case," he continued, "but they have given him the win because the DC case, let's just face it, is on life support now."

He went on to suggest that it's "really, really hard to figure out how this case gets to trial before the election," arguing that while the Supreme Court "may ultimately say that he does not have immunity ... he will have been given immunity because the case will not go to trial before the election, meaning if Joe Biden wins, the case goes forward, but if he loses, the case is over."

Weissman, a former prosecutor and author of a book about recent Trump's legal cases, also said that the delaying of the trial will allow the former president to continue pushing the idea that the charges leveled against him are "all just a smear campaign by his political adversaries."

When asked whether the Supreme Court was, legally speaking, correct in deciding to hear the arguments, Weissman said no, pointing out that "by granting the stay, they essentially are saying that he is de facto immune."

The justices are expected to hear arguments in the case beginning on April 22.