Maggie Haberman and Elie Honig Stunned Trump Team Denied Scoop on Lawyer-Turned-Witness Evan Corcoran
CNN’s Elie Honig and Maggie Haberman were stunned Team Trump tried to deny the bombshell news that attorney Evan Corcoran has left former President Donald Trump’s legal team months after becoming a “major witness” in the classified docs case.
On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins broke the scoop that Corcoran has left the Trump fold just over a year after a failed appeal by Trump’s legal team seeking to block Corcoran from testifying and turning over documents to the Special Counsel Jack Smith-led Justice Department probe into Trump’s mishandling of classified information.
As Honig and Haberman discussed the news, Collins noted the denial — drawing literal laughter from Honig and a sarcastic reaction from Haberman. All three called BS:
HONIG: It’s a big deal to break through that privilege. I mean, that privilege is sacrosanct. And judges do not do that lightly. So, this judge held — held a hearing, and ruled yes, what Donald Trump was doing, was trying to break the law, through Evan Corcoran.
And Evan Corcoran’s role here was he was sort of the unwitting vehicle, through which Donald Trump misled the FBI.
HABERMAN: It’s very specific to the obstruction piece of this investigation.
HONIG: Yes.
HABERMAN: And the obstruction piece of the investigation, the documents investigation tends to get sort of overlooked, right? It gets — the part that gets focused on is the national security secrets that Trump had at Mar-a-Lago. But there’s also this second aspect of allegedly misleading investigators, and that is where Evan Corcoran is a big piece.
COLLINS: And I should note, and this is important, the Trump legal team — or the Trump team is denying this. They’re denying our reporting. We reached out to them before we came on air. They said that Evan Corcoran is —
HABERMAN: He’s still there?
COLLINS: — still on the legal team.
HABERMAN: Sure.
COLLINS: They’re arguing.
HONIG: Can I — can I respond to their denial?
COLLINS: Sure.
HONIG: He can’t possibly stay on the legal team. I mean, it’s almost a mathematical impossibility. Once you are a witness against the person, which he now is, you can’t stay on the legal team.
COLLINS: Yes, it’s kind of surprising it took this long.
HONIG: Yes.
HABERMAN: Yes.
The Trump team also said that The New York Times was wrong, in saying that Trump had been privately saying he liked a federal abortion ban. And we were not wrong. So do with that what you will.
COLLINS: Yes, you are quite familiar with the history of denials.
HABERMAN: Right.
Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
