The CNN legal analyst says that Trump’s DOJ is causing ‘existential crisis’ with the case of Eric Adams

CNN Senior legal analyst ELIE HONIG He is exciting him United States Department of Justicethat, under the attorney general Pam Bondi and the interim attached attorney general Emil Bove, prosecutors ordered last week To leave positions of corruption against the mayor of New York City Eric Adams.

In a written Monday article For the intelligent of New York magazineHonig said that this “has been done” in a complete existential crisis for the Department of Justice “, since the Bave order caused several Key federal prosecutors resignationincluding one that said “ascended to a quid pro quo.”

ADAMS He was accused in September On the accusations, he accepted bribes and illegal campaign contributions, But Curry’s favor with Trump in recent monthsParticularly working with him in immigration, which led to the speculation that the order of the Department of Justice was a reward for Adams loyalty.

Bove argued in its directive That the case is eliminated so that ADAMS can continue to help the Trump administration to enforce its immigration policy, which leads Honig to condemn all those involved both for lack of principles and self -consciousness.

He wrote in his article that Bove “told us quite explicitly” that the order was politically motivated and that The resulting public scandal It could have been avoided if the Department of Cabo decided that the case was “too thin” or that Trump had forgiven Adams personally.

Honig then went after Bondi with a series of scathing observations.

“Speaking of: Where the hell is Pam Bondi in all this? (You know: the new United States Attorney General.) “, He wrote.” Apparently he has been sliding, happily half aware of this case, as if it were a story he had looked on the Internet. “

Honig pointed out that when Bondi was asked last week why the case had not yet been dismissed despite the apparently clear instructions for his colleague to guarantee so much, She simply replied“I didn’t know that he had not yet retired,” in which CNN’s legal analyst was launched.

“That is fun because I didAnd I am not the Attorney General of the United States, “he wrote.” And In an appearance in Fox NewsBondi again diverted, pointing to the defensive that he was in a different time zone. (I am not sure that I completely understand how the time areas work. Actually, the same things are happening, it is only that the watches say slightly different things in which you are; it is not as if you enter an alternative reality).

Honig, who once served as an assistant US prosecutor.

“Here is the fundamental problem with what Bove leadership and the Department of Justice have done,” he wrote. “They have promulgated and adopted a policy that it is perfectly valid to base the prosecution decisions on the political inclinations of the subject: Mayor Adams cannot remain under the accusation because it will help us promote our immigration policy agenda.“

“Imagine where that principle has,” Honig added.