CNN legal analyst Elie Honig reacted with astonishment to new reporting on former President Donald Trump's internal feuding with his own lawyers over returning top-secret government documents to the United States government after receiving a subpoena for them.
In particular, Honig zeroed in on reports that Trump blew off his legal counsel's advice to return the documents and instead took the word of Judicial Watch leader Tom Fitton, who is not even an attorney and who told Trump that the Presidential Records Act gave him the right to bring nuclear secrets with him to his Mar-a-Lago resort.
"Donald Trump is magnetically attracted to the worst possible advice," Honig said. "It's been a theme from the time he took office. It's been a theme throughout the Mueller investigation. Lawyers saying, 'Calm down, let's do the right thing, you can work here.' And then the people like Tom Fitton, not a lawyer, telling him, 'No way, fight...' and that always has led him into more trouble."
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Honig also downplayed the idea that any Trump lawyer could have secured a good plea deal for him after the United States Department of Justice learned of the lengths that he went to obstruct their investigation.
"I think it's too late," he explained. "There is a point of no return once DOJ has gone to a judge, said we have probable cause, did the search warrant."
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