Regular CNN legal analyst Elie Honig took Special Prosecutor Jack Smith apart over the unprecedented manner in which he used his position to get his findings on former President Donald Trump before the general public prior to the presidential election on November 5.
In a Thursday op-ed for New York Magazine titled “Jack Smith’s October Cheap Shot,” Honig conceded that there was some new information in the lengthy brief Smith filed — which Judge Tonya Chutkan then made public — but that the value of that information was compromised by the fact that there was “no defending” the route Smith had been willing to take to ensure Trump was tried by the court of public opinion prior to Election Day.
Smith had initially wanted to try Trump before the election, Honig noted, but when that failed, he pulled out all the stops — and “bent ordinary procedure to get in one last shot,…
