‘Devastating For Donald Trump!’ CNN Legal Analyst Predicts Sidney Powell Plea Spells Big Trouble for Trump

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Sidney Powell’s guilty plea could be “devastating for Donald Trump” — and not just in the state election crimes case.

Trump has been grabbing the spotlight all week by showing up to his trial in the fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James and presided over by Judge Arthur Engoron. and taking every opportunity to rant to reporters outside the courtroom.

But on Thursday morning, attention shifted to Georgia with the blockbuster news that Powell — one of Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia election crimes case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — has accepted a plea deal that will require her testimony at future trials.

On Thursday’s edition of CNN News Central, Honig was on hand to give immediate analysis — and had very little in the way of good news for Trump:

KATE BOLDUAN: Few people pushed it further than Sidney Powell.

ELIE HONIG: Yeah, that’s right. It’s important to remember who Sidney Powell is, she’s one of Donald Trump’s closest loyalists. She’s somebody who Donald Trump has claimed he relied on her advice to proceed in his effort to try to steal this election.

This is a major breakthrough for prosecutors, potentially a devastating development for Donald Trump, because what’s going to happen now is Sidney Powell is going to testify for prosecutors in Georgia, and presumably she’ll also be prepared to testify for Jack Smith in his federal case in Washington, D.C. She’s not indicted in that case, but she’s listed as a coconspirator in that case. She’s going to be able to provide insider information that could be really devastating towards Donald Trump.

JOHN BERMAN: She was in the room where some things, if not happened, were at least discussed. She was part of some of these contentious meetings that allegedly took place in the White House before January 6. How can prosecutors now use her?

ELIE HONIG: So you use her to bring your jury into that very room. She will be the guide. She will be the narrator. She will be able to say, I was in this room with Donald Trump, with Rudy Giuliani. Here’s what we discussed. Here’s who said what. Here’s what we knew.

And John, really importantly, in order to take this plea in this deal, Sidney Powell is going to have to acknowledge what we did was criminal. It was illegal, it was a crime. And so that’s going to lend a lot of credibility, I think, obviously, to prosecutors assertions that what Donald Trump did was knowingly a crime, was an intentional crime.

So now they’ve sort of got an ultimate insider, somebody who has remained steadfastly loyal to Donald Trump, to the stolen election narrative. Now she has flipped. Now she has come clean. Now she’s going to be a prosecution witness.

Watch above via CNN News Central.