CNN's Elie Honig immediately shut down Donald Trump's angry courthouse rant as a New York judge set a trial date in the ex-president's hush money case.
Trump claimed the prosecution was brought by President Joe Biden and insisted "even if he was guilty" of falsifying business records to cover up payments to adult movie actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 campaign, "there's no crime."
But Honig pointed out where he said Trump was wrong.
"So first of all, we have to address the tired and tiresome claim that this is all coming out of the Biden White House," CNN's legal analyst said. "This is a state case, there's zero evidence whatsoever that Joe Biden or the administration had anything to do with this prosecution."
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"Second of all, Donald Trump said, quote, 'this is not a crime,'" Honig added. "There's a fair debate about how serious this is, but this is a crime if proven as alleged in the indictment. There's some question about whether it would be just a misdemeanor falsification of business records or a higher-level felony, but under any reasonable construction, if proven, this is a crime.
"And the third thing Donald Trump said that I noted as he said, 'There's absolutely no case here.' This is a debatable case, it will be tried to a jury, but this is a case that has a good-faith basis. There's a basis of fact in the indictment. It'll be up to a jury."
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