CNN Legal Analyst's Take On Trump Verdict Will Probably Anger Liberals

If there’s one legal analyst I can tolerate on CNN, it’s Elie Honig. Honig is a former assistant US Attorney and the network's senior legal analyst who has given nuanced and fair takes on the legal drama surrounding Donald Trump and Joe Biden. He’s not a conservative or a Trump fan, but I’d take a sensible analysis of the lawfare we’ve seen against Trump over whatever the hell Norm Eisen was spewing last night: Norm Eisen, former Obama official & architect behind the lawfare cases against Trump, can barely contain his excitement at the prospects of Trump going to prison. “Imprisonment is routinely imposed. This is the most serious falsifying business records case in history.” Says Trump would be getting “special treatment” if Merchan didn’t sentence him to prison. The funny part about Eisen is his enjoyment of the prospect of jailing Donald Trump. As Honig and others noted, that’s unlikely to happen. Second, Eisen got everything wrong about this verdict and its implications.

In a lengthy piece in New York Magazine’s Intelligencer, Honig offered his take on the matter, plating it as such: it’s possible that the jury did its job and the legalese used to charge and convict Trump was an unmitigated disaster. Both sides can have their issues with that conclusion. It’s hard to argue that the jury did its job when the verdict was already baked into the cake when this legal circus began. On the other hand, for the raving anti-Trump wing, Honig doing a line-by-line takedown of what motivated the prosecution might ruffle some feathers. It could outright infuriate the Left since Honig is confident of two things: Trump won’t go to jail over these charges, and he has a good chance of having the verdict reversed on appeal. Honig, for all his praise of the jury’s duty being a former prosecutor, torched Bragg’s team for essentially making up charges to convict Trump. He doesn’t outright say it, but the lengths at which they defined the crimes Trump was convicted of is suspect.

NY Mag/Intelligencer: Prosecutors Got Trump — But They Contorted the Law
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-was-convicted-but-prosecutors-contorted-the-law.html
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