‘That Is an Outrageous Thing to Do’: CNN Legal Analyst Rips Trump AG’s First Act in Office

CNN Senior Legal Analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig blasted Attorney General Pam Bondi hours after she took office on Wednesday.

Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, is a longtime Trump ally whose first order of business upon taking office was re-litigating President Donald Trump’s past legal woes. Trump and his supporters are still sour over the two federal prosecutions against him, which have since been dropped. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith prosecuted Trump in two separate cases for retaining government documents after leaving office, as well as trying to overturn the 2020 election. The latter effort culminated in the 2021 Capitol riot.

Upon Bondi’s swearing in on Wednesday, Trump said, “I know I’m supposed to say she’s gonna be totally impartial with respect to Democrats, and I think she will be as impartial as a person can be. I’m not sure if there’s a possibility of totally. But she’s gonna be as total as you can get.”

Bondi issued several directives after taking office, including one ordering an investigation into Smith and his prosecutions of Trump.

Later on CNN’s The Source, Honig took umbrage at Bondi’s action:

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.

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. And by the way, let me spoil the secret and tell you how it’s gonna come 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.

Honig noted that some of the top brass now at the DOJ represented Trump as lawyers in the private sector.

“They should leave well alone,” he added. “And I do not think it’s good for morale or for the independence of DOJ for Pam Bondi to come in on day one and order that.”

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