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The Counsel

Note from Elie 11/08: Trump's Gamble Pays Off As Cases Fade Away

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 11 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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0:31.7

Hey everyone, Ellie here.

0:33.4

Well, here we are.

0:34.8

Post-election, I guess a surprise.

0:36.9

I don't know.

0:37.3

How could it be a surprise

0:38.5

when all that I had said to myself coming into it was it's 50-50? How could that, logically,

0:45.3

if it was 50-50, I shouldn't have been surprised. I was surprised by the result. I probably,

0:49.3

I don't know, maybe I would have been surprised either way, although I did in the last couple

0:52.9

days before the election start to lean over towards Harris being more likely to win. This is why I don't do politics,

1:00.4

folks. I try to stick the law. In any event, it is a whole new world that is a whole new

1:05.5

landscape now politically and, yes, legally as well. And so this week, I want to run through where we are.

1:12.9

We'll start with, I guess, the most immediate question. Where are we with the Donald Trump

1:17.9

criminal cases? But we'll move beyond that fairly quickly, as you'll see in a moment.

1:22.7

And how are the next four years going to look? I don't know. Maybe I'm asking myself rhetorically,

1:27.8

but I think a lot of what we're going to see is Donald Trump, he'll be back in office,

1:31.1

and I think he'll be doing things that push and often exceed the boundaries of law, norms,

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