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The Counsel

Note from Elie 1/14: Jack Smith, Paper Tiger

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst.  For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Amazon One Medical presents painful thoughts.

0:04.8

I could catch anything sitting in this doctor's waiting room.

0:08.6

Oh, a kid just wiped his runny nose on my jacket.

0:11.6

And the guy next to me, sitting in a pool of perspiration, insists on sharing my armrest.

0:17.0

Ugh.

0:18.2

Next time, make an appointment with an Amazon One medical provider.

0:21.9

There's no waiting and no sweaty guy.

0:24.5

Amazon One Medical, health care just got less painful.

0:31.6

Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy midweek.

0:35.4

I guess we are now the week before inauguration. We are just days away

0:40.0

from a brand new presidential administration taking over. And we are deep into Biden administration

0:47.4

endgame. A few months ago, I wrote a piece where one of our listeners wrote in and said

0:53.4

something like, you know, I always

0:55.3

listen and read and enjoy what Ellie writes, but there's times when what he writes just really

1:00.9

sets me off. And I think he jokingly, or I forget who came up with the joke, me or him,

1:04.8

I'll credit the listener, said something like, you need to put a trigger warning in front of some

1:08.7

of these, which I thought was kind of a good idea. I guess I'll put a modified trigger warning in front of this one.

1:15.2

It's not an over-the-top take, as I think you'll see. And what I'd ask you to do, let me just

1:20.9

assume for the sake of argument you don't like Trump. And let me just assume for the sake of argument

1:24.8

you've been rooting for Jack Smith for the last year and a half or two years or whatever to take Trump down. Let me just ask you to sort of clear that

1:32.3

from your mind, listen to what I argue here, and tell me if I'm wrong. Tell me if I'm being

1:36.3

unfair. Tell me if I'm overstating it or being overly critical of Jack Smith. Or maybe

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