CNN senior authorized analyst Elie Honig known as out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday for claiming that there’s “nothing out of the atypical” in how the authorized system is treating former President Trump.
On Thursday, Honig wrote a column for New York Journal the place he scorched Particular Counsel Jack Smith’s “procedurally irregular” 165-page federal court docket submitting concerning Trump’s immunity from prosecution.
“The bigger, if much less apparent, headline is that Smith has basically deserted any pretense; he’ll bend any rule, change up on any follow — as long as he will get to chip away at Trump’s electoral prospects. At this level, there’s merely no defending Smith’s conduct on any form of principled or institutional foundation,” Honig wrote.
He additionally wrote, “Anybody who objected to James Comey’s outrageous bulletins concerning the Hillary Clinton electronic mail investigation on the eve of the 2016 election ought to really feel the identical about Smith’s conduct now,” and rhetorically requested what distinction there could possibly be between these two instances.
CNN senior authorized analyst Elie Honig known as out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for claiming that there’s “nothing out of the atypical” in how the authorized system is treating former President Trump. (CNN)
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Clinton rejected the comparability, nonetheless, arguing there may be “nothing out of the atypical” on this case.
“I believe the scenario is totally completely different, and that is within the context of an ongoing prison process that the particular counsel has introduced towards Donald Trump many, many months earlier than the run-up to the election,” Clinton stated in an interview. “It was, frankly, motivated by the orders of the decide on this trial, who has, it seems to me, been extraordinarily favorable towards Trump, so I believe that there’s nothing out of the atypical.”
The CNN authorized analyst, when requested for his response, argued Clinton has “acquired her information incorrect,” together with probably complicated Decide Aileen Cannon and Decide Tanya Chutkan.
“Properly, all respect to Secretary Clinton, she’s the one who suffered the results for James Comey’s, I imagine, outrageous conduct in 2016; DOJ discovered later that it was outrageous. The issue, although, with Secretary Clinton’s evaluation of the Jack Smith case is, respectfully, she’s acquired her information incorrect,” Honig stated.Â
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks throughout a panel on the Very important Voices World Competition on Could 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Getty Photos)
“To begin with, she’s complicated the judges right here. I believe she’s considering of Decide Cannon, who, sure, has dominated nearly totally for Donald Trump. However that’s the decide within the different case. The decide right here is Decide Chutkan. I get it, related names — Decide Chutkan has dominated nearly totally towards Donald Trump,” he stated.
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Honig went on to chastise Clinton for arguing that there was “nothing out of the atypical” with this case.
“Extra to the purpose, the very last thing we simply heard Secretary Clinton say was — quote — ‘There may be nothing out of the atypical.’ However as I described earlier than, the way in which they flipped this process is the alternative of the atypical,” he stated.Â
“They reversed the precise method that motions are executed. You may discuss to 100 former federal prosecutors who’ve collectively dealt with 100,000 instances. They are going to all inform you they by no means filed their motions first. And I believe it begs the query, what was the frenzy right here? Why did Jack Smith need to ask for this, to cite Decide Chutkan, procedurally irregular method?” Honig stated. “So, I respectfully disagree with the secretary there.”
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Fox Information’ Nikolas Lanum contributed to this report.
