Elie Honig: Hillary Clinton Got Her Facts Wrong

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig did not take well to Special Counsel Jack Smith's exceptionally long filing, which was about four times the generally accepted length of such a filing.

He also took exception to comments that were made by Hillary Clinton.

Honing called the Democrat golden child flat-out wrong for her reaction to the filing.

Hypocrites

Honig stated, "The larger, if less obvious, headline is that Smith has essentially abandoned any pretense; he'll bend any rule, switch up on any practice — so long as he gets to chip away at Trump's electoral prospects. At this point, there's simply no defending Smith's conduct on any sort of principled or institutional basis.”

He continued, "Anyone who objected to James Comey’s outrageous announcements about the Hillary Clinton email investigation on the eve of the 2016 election should feel the same about Smith’s conduct now.”

When Smith released his filing, Hillary had publicly stated there was nothing out of the ordinary about what happened here.

Hillary had stated, "I think the situation is completely different, and this is in the context of an ongoing criminal procedure that the special counsel has brought against Donald Trump many, many months before the run-up to the election

“It was, frankly, motivated by the orders of the judge in this trial, who has, it appears to me, been extremely favorable toward Trump, so I think that there is nothing out of the ordinary."

That claim is laughable, as Judge Chutkan has shot down every motion by Trump’s attorneys and made it quite clear that she believes he belongs in jail.

Honig agreed, stating, "Well, all respect to Secretary Clinton, she’s the one who suffered the consequences for James Comey’s, I believe, outrageous conduct in 2016; DOJ found later that it was outrageous.

“The problem, though, with Secretary Clinton’s analysis of the Jack Smith case is, respectfully, she’s got her facts wrong.

"First of all, she’s confusing the judges here. I think she’s thinking of Judge Cannon, who, yes, has ruled almost entirely for Donald Trump.

“But that’s the judge in the other case. The judge here is Judge Chutkan. I get it, similar names — Judge Chutkan has ruled almost entirely against Donald Trump.”

Explaining how Hillary was wrong about nothing being out of the ordinary, Honig continued, "They reversed the actual way that motions are done.

“You can talk to a hundred former federal prosecutors who’ve collectively handled 100,000 cases. They will all tell you they never filed their motions first.

“And I think it begs the question, what was the rush here? Why did Jack Smith have to ask for this, to quote Judge Chutkan, procedurally irregular approach?

“So, I respectfully disagree with the secretary there."

If we did not have state-run media in this country, Hillary would have been fact-checked in real-time by the reporter, but that does not happen with Democrats.

Dems can go on TV and say whatever they want, and nobody challenges anything. But if a Republican is even remotely stretching the truth, there is all hell to pay.