In an article in New York newspaper, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig cites a number of the legal defects that led to the trial of previous president Donald Trump, who was found guilty on Monday in Manhattan.
Honig noted that there had never before tried to maintain national election laws, which was one of the issues. Numerous legitimate experts claim that the district attorney in Manhattan had no power or expert to do so.
Honig wrote:
The judge donated money — a little amount,$ 35, but in simple violation of a , rule , prohibiting New York judges from making democratic donations of any kind — to a pro- Trump, anti- Trump social operation, including funds that the judge , earmarked , for “resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s extreme right- wing legacy”. Would it have been acceptable for the judge to continue the case if he had given a few dollars to” Re-elect Donald Trump, MAGA forever”? Completely not.
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District Attorney Alvin Bragg ran for office in an increasingly Democratic state by , touting , his Trump- hunting skills. He bizarrely ( and falsely )  , boasted , on the campaign trail,” It is a fact that I have sued Trump over 100 times”. ( Disclosure: Both Bragg and Trump’s lead counsel, Todd Blanche, are friends and former colleagues of mine at the Southern District of New York. )
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The costs against Trump are mysterious, and almost wholly unprecedented. In reality,  , no status prosecutor , — in New York, or Wyoming, or everywhere — has previously charged national election laws as a primary or premise position crime, against anyone, for anything. Nothing. Always. Even putting aside the details of election laws, the Manhattan DA itself , about never , brings any circumstance in which misrepresentation of business information is the only cost.
Honig has repeatedly criticized the Trump trial on air in response to CNN’s anti-Trump editorial line in recent weeks.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor- at- Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. ET ( 4 p. m. to 7 p. m. PT ). He is the author of the recent e- book,” The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency”, now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e- book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U. S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
