'Entirely self-inflicted': CNN legal analyst marvels how Trump bumbled into felony charges

Former President Donald Trump's indictment for the removal of national defense information to his Mar-a-Lago resort is entirely the result of a series of bad decisions he made even as federal authorities gave him every chance to hand them over without legal action, said former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN Monday.

Honig's point came during a discussion of former Attorney General William Barr, who laid out how severe the charges against his former boss are in a recent interview.

"If even half of it is true, he's toast," said Barr. "It's a very detailed indictment and it's very, very damning. And this idea of presenting Trump as a victim here, the victim of a witch hunt, is ridiculous."

Honig concurred with Barr's assessment of Trump's legal situation.

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"I think he's right about this indictment," said Honig. "It is a detailed, fact-based, specifically sourced and cited indictment. I've seen a lot of indictments in my career. Some indictments are sort of so general, you can't really tell. This one is on point. And I think he's in real trouble."

"The other thing that I think is, gosh, again that I agree with Bill Barr, is it's entirely self-inflicted by Donald Trump," Honig continued. "When you read this narrative, if he had just at any point said, guys, give them the documents back, it would have been over."

The important thing to remember, Honig added, is that Trump "didn't actually get charged for any of the documents that were voluntarily turned over to archives. No criminal charges on that.

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