'Desecration of the DOJ': Ex-prosecutor tears down Trump's 'disgraceful' speech

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig launched a fiery rebuke of President Donald Trump’s speech at the Department of Justice, which the CNN legal analyst noted was unlike anything he had ever witnessed.

Honig used his appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” on Friday to rip into Trump while reminding viewers just how unprecedented the grievance-filled speech was.

“What happened today – that speech – was a desecration of the Justice Department of the Great Hall of Justice, where it was given," he said. “AGs, and occasionally, presidents of both parties have used that room for decades to address the rank and file, like I once was, to call on the highest principles of DOJ.”

Honig went on to read an excerpt from a 1962 speech given by then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy – who the DOJ named the Main Justice Department building after. He then delivered a verbal takedown of Trump.

ALSO READ: ‘I miss lynch mobs’: The secretary of retribution's followers are getting impatient

“Now, today, by contrast, we have Donald Trump calling prosecutors Marxists, scum, savages and thugs,” Honig said. “We have a five minute speech on Bobby Knight in Indiana basketball. We have talk about the price of eggs and bacon. We have stuff about Hunter Biden’s laptop. We have a riff about Norm Eisen – why? I have no idea.”

He continued to scorch the presidential remarks, which also included claims “that firefighters voted for him by 94%,” Honig said as he rattled on about the surprising topics the president addressed at the DOJ. “We have mentions of Al Capone, Wyatt Earp, Rudy Giuliani, and then it ends with – I actually thought I was hearing something wrong – YMCA. That song, they played it and he danced to it on the stage of the Great Hall.”

“It was disgraceful,” Honig concluded.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) called the event on Friday “very creepy.”

“This is something that I think Americans, regardless of your political position, should really be worried about,” he added.

Watch the clip below or at this link: