Last night CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Elie Honig blasted the grand jury forewoman for her media blitz discussing jury deliberations.
As we reported yesterday, she was hinting at the grand jury recommending an indictment against Trump and others.
Both Cooper and Honig said they were wincing at the interviews she was doing, and Honig predicted Trump will file a motion in court to dismiss the any indictment against him due to jury impropriety.
Here’s what they said via Mediaite:
COOPER: First of all why this person is talking on TV, I do not understand. Because, she’s clearly enjoying herself, but I mean, is this responsible? She was the foreperson of this grand jury!
HONIG: This is a horrible idea And I guarantee you that prosecutors are wincing, watching her go on this–
COOPER: I was wincing just watching her eagerness to like, hint at stuff.
HONIG: It’s painful in that respect. That’s a very serious prospect here. We’re talking about – indicting any person, you’re talking about potentially taking away that person’s liberty – we’re talking about potentially former president for the first time in this nation of history. She does not seem to be taking that very seriously.
COOPER: There’s no reason for her to be out talking.
HONIG: No. It’s a prosecutor’s nightmare. Mark my words, Donald Trump’s team is going to make a motion if there’s an indictment to dismiss that indictment base on grand jury impropriety. She’s not supposed to be talking about anything, really. But she’s really not supposed to be talking about the deliberations. She’s talking about what specific witnesses they saw, what the grand jury thought of them. She says some of them we found credible, some we found funny. I don’t know why that’s relevant, but she’s been saying we found this guy funny or interesting. I think she’s potentially crossing a line here. It’s gonna be a real problem for prosecutors.
It sounds like this forewoman may be giving Trump exactly what he needs to dismiss any indictment, should there be one against him.
Mark Levin agrees with the reaction by Cooper and Honig, saying on Twitter “They’re right. This is outrageous.”
As a reminder, Honig was the one who defended Trump’s ability to declassify documents on CNN, predicting the Supreme Court would vindicate him because he has such a broad authority to declassify.