CNN legal expert Elie Honig essentially flunked Pam Bondi on her first day as attorney general Wednesday. (Watch the video below.)
After host Kaitlan Collins played a clip of President Donald Trump musing whether Bondi could be impartial toward Democrats, Honig went on the offensive.
“The thing that jumped out to me today… is essentially Pam Bondi’s first act in office is to order an investigation of January 6th and the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump,” he said. “That is an outrageous thing to do on your first day. If you’re trying to restore DOJ’s equilibrium and establish, ‘this as a nonpolitical place,’ that is an overtly political quest.”
Honig made no bones about how he thinks the probe will play out.
“Someday, six, eight, 10 months from now, we’re gonna get a report and they’re gonna say, ‘Those prosecutions of Donald Trump were wildly corrupt and political and improper.’ It won’t come out any other way.”
On Wednesday Bondi created a “Weaponization Working Group” to target perceived “politicized justice,” including special counsel Jack Smith’s federal Jan. 6 and documents cases against Trump, The Washington Post reported.
Bondi, who refused to say that Trump lost the 2020 election at her confirmation hearing, also alleged federal cooperation in civil and criminal New York state cases. She was going to have those looked into as well.
Bondi pledged not to play politics at her confirmation hearing. Honig hoped she’d stick to her promise.
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“Donald Trump won the election, those cases were dismissed, they won,” he said. “They should leave well alone and I do not think it’s good for morale or for the independence of the Department of justice for Pam Bondi to come in on day 1 and order that.”
Fast-forward to 2:10 for Honig’s take on Bondi: