Donald Trump was caught making false accusations of election fraud and political witch hunts on Tuesday by CNN legal analysts who tuned into his post-presidential immunity-hearing speech.
CNN host Kaitlan Collins cut off Trump's speech and jumped in to call him out on several false claims she said she needed to dispute immediately.
“A few fact checks and reality statements on what you’re hearing there,” Collins told viewers. “There is no evidence of voter fraud, and many courts have found that there has never been any evidence of it that Trump has been able to bring.”
Collins professed herself surprised that Trump would repeat such claims six days before the Iowa caucuses and then turned the conversation over to former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, who doubled down on the reality check.
Honig took umbrage with Trump’s claim that special counsel Jack Smith fared poorly during the hearing and that he was pursuing a political witchhunt at the behest of President Joe Biden.
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“We need to set the record straight,” Honig said. “Trump told us that [the Justice department] made these remarkable sort of shocking concessions. I don't think so.”
Honig then added, “To the contrary, it was a little bit surprising to hear Donald Trump’s lawyers go in there and concede that under certain circumstances, a former president can be prosecuted.”
As for the political witchhunt claim, Honig once again returned to facts, or lack thereof.
Honig pointed to the layers of government between Biden and Smith, namely Attorney General Merrick Garland, who was appointed by the Senate and himself chose Smith as an extra layer between the prosecution team and the White House.
“Just so people understand,” Honig said, “There is no evidence of any communication between any of those folks, particularly Joe Biden.”
