'Ultimate abuse of the Justice Department': CNN legal analyst shocked by latest Trump coup revelations
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig expressed shock and disgust over new revelations about how former President Donald Trump tried to strongarm the United States Department of Justice to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
During an interview on Thursday night, host Erin Burnett asked Honig what he made of a Senate report showing Trump asked DOJ officials nine different times to help him overturn the election.
"It's just the ultimate abuse of the Justice Department," he said. "It goes against everything that the Justice Department is about. And the most disturbing thing to me, we know trump was trying to steal the election. the most disturbing thing to me is that [former Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division] Jeffrey Clark inside DOJ was trying to help him."
Elsewhere in the interview, Honig dismissed Trump's attempt to use executive privilege to block Congress from subpoenaing his former aides.
"No court has ever ruled squarely on who gets to exert executive privilege, the current president or the former president," he said. "But the precedent tells us it's the current president."
Trump has directly instructed former administration officials to ignore any subpoenas that come from the House select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots.
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