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CNN senior legal analyst Ellie Honig shot down the idea that the Trump hush money case<\/a> involving Stormy Daniels was “easy to prove” because it involves a “paper trail,” which “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin suggested on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During an appearance on “CNN This Morning,” Honig told host Don Lemon that the “key evidentiary issue” with former President Donald Trump’s hush money case involving Stormy Daniels was about whether Trump knew the “payments were booked that way.” He also said the timing of it, just over six years later, “begs the question, why now?”<\/p>\n

“So I have heard from others that this is a \u2013 essentially a sort of crime that involves a paper trail. And paperwork or paper trail crimes are very easy to prove. So you are saying it\u2019s going to be difficult but wouldn\u2019t the bar be really low to prove that?” Lemon asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I disagree with that. I’ve heard that statement from, I think a mutual friend of ours. It\u2019s easy to prove the paper crime if the person\u2019s name is on the paper. Here the paper trail can show us exactly how this payment was made, exactly how Michael Cohen was reimbursed, and exactly how they booked it. What I’d be shocked if the paperwork showed is a direct link to Donald Trump. If there is an email, text, a memo where Donald Trump says \u2018Yes guys, do it this way\u2019 or ‘I’d like you to do it this way,’ that\u2019s a smoking gun. But short of that, the paperwork is an important part of the story, but just saying it\u2019s a paper case, there’s a paper trail, doesn\u2019t necessarily get you to the core issue of the defendant or the potential defendants\u2019 criminal liability,” Honig said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

MANHATTAN DA PUMMELED FOR POSSIBLE TRUMP INDICTMENT: \u2018IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERSTATE MR. BRAGG\u2019S BAD JUDGMENT\u2019<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hostin, a former federal prosecutor and co-host of ABC’s “The View,”<\/a> said something similar to what Lemon had suggested on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think the severity matters a little less than how easy it\u2019s going to prove. Many of the charges that they\u2019re looking at are falsifying business records. We know he\u2019s done that for a really long time,” Hostin said. “His chief financial officer is in prison at Rikers, serving time for falsifying business records, so it wouldn\u2019t be a difficult thing to prove and that\u2019s a misdemeanor charge. Misdemeanor charges are criminal, and it\u2019s about six months.”<\/p>\n

Later in the segment, Hostin said she believed Trump would be imprisoned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think he will be imprisoned this time. I\u2019ve been saying it for two years but I really believe, four cases in four different jurisdictions and a lot are paper trail cases. Do you know how easy paper trail cases are to prove?”<\/p>\n

MANHATTAN DA’S CASE MAY BE \u2018WEAKEST\u2019 ONE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, MSNBC HOSTS AND GUESTS FRET<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Alyssa Farah Griffin said she felt “uneasy” about the case because it “carries the shortest sentence.”<\/p>\n

Hostin repeated that it was “the easiest to prove.”<\/p>\n

While they didn’t name Hostin in the discussion, Lemon and Hostin are old friends and were once CNN colleagues. Honig has also interacted warmly online with Hostin, like him a former prosecutor, and she wrote a gushing blurb<\/a> for his book about former Attorney General William Barr.<\/p>\n

Some Democrats fear<\/a> that a potential charges against Trump could backfire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This is an open-and-shut, books-and-records misdemeanor,” Norm Eisen, attorney and senior Brookings fellow, said Monday. “Now, to elevate it to a felony is more complicated.”<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“[T]here are far more serious crimes for which he should also be held to account,” David Pepper, a former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, told Axios.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cnn-analyst-shoots-down-sunny-hostins-theory-trump-case-easy-prove <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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